Economic Conditions category: 2830 books
East Asian Development Model
Twenty-first century perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Given the impressive growth in East Asia after World War II, initially led by Japan, the region's development models have been scrutinized since the 1980s. The shared Confucian cultural heritage, strong government guidance, and export led economies were often cited as contributors to the impressive...
Economic Representations
Academic and Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2008
Why is there such a proliferation of economic discourses in literary theory, cultural studies, anti-sweatshop debates, popular music, and other areas outside the official discipline of economics? How is the economy represented in different ways by economists and non-economists?In this volume, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines and countrie
by Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond, John English
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
Through war, depression, and social upheaval, the first half of the twentieth century was a period of unprecedented turbulence in Canada. In this lively and contentious survey, Robert Bothwell, lan Drummond, and John English explore the political and economic forces that shaped this era of change.
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States of Discipline
Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and the widespread aversion towards austerity policies, neoliberalism remains the dominant mode of economic governance in the world. What makes neoliberalism such a resilient mode of economic and political governance? How does neoliberalism effectively...
From Commune to Capitalism
How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small peasant families. Known as the decollectivization campaign, it is one of the most significant reforms in China's transition to a market economy. From the...
China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979
Grain, Trade and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
During the period 1949 to 1979, communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency, and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China. However, this book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that China was highly...
by Lawrence M. Mead
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Welfare reform, which required that poor mothers work in return for assistance, was a watershed in the struggle against poverty for American families. As work levels rose dramatically among low-income women, the welfare rolls were cut in half and many families rose out of poverty. But men's employment...
Managed Chaos
The Fragility of the Chinese Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Managed Chaos: The Fragility of the Chinese Miracle reads into the Chinese politics and economy and the disparate status and position of the two domains. On one hand, its economy has sustained a near 10 per cent growth rate for 30 years, while, on the other, trapped in an incomplete transition from...
Imagining Interest in Political Thought
Origins of Economic Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Imagining Interest in Political Thought argues that monistic interest—or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined economies of self and public interest—constitutes the end and means of contemporary liberal government. The paradigmatic theorist of monistic interest is...
The Age of Post-Rationality
Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive civilisation. Yet, over the past decades, the dogma of economic rationality has...
Regime Shift
Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Liberal Democratic Party, which dominated postwar Japan, lost power in the early 1990s. During that same period, Japan's once stellar economy suffered stagnation and collapse. Now a well-known commentator on contemporary Japan traces the political dynamics of the country to determine the reasons...
Hindu Fundamentalism and the Spirit of Capitalism in India
Hinduisation of Tribals in Kalahandi during the New Economic Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
The book makes serious theoretical contribution to the field of political economy in indigenous development, public policy, sociology and development studies. It further establishes the relationship between Hinduisation of indigenous communities and rise of Hindu fundamentalism with a mining led industrial...
Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario
Theory and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1981
Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata...
Boko Haram
The Socio-Economic Drivers
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
This book investigates the socio-economic determinants of the emergence and persistence of Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria. Since 2009, Boko Haram continues to capture mainstream news headlines, as well as the imagination of aspiring young Salafi-jihadists around the world who support the notion of...