... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with politicaleconomy (research on the social andpolitical regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... draft only 2 The PoliticalEconomyofthe ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology andthe Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis of this paper is that the bio -economy is critically ... historical variants ofthe Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance ofthe biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA andthe UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate...
... change for the time being. Now the strategy isessentially a return to the ‘policy of a calm hand’ (Politik der ruhigen Hand) of the summer of 2001, in the hope of some sort of spin-off from global ... reforms had the oppo-site effect as they added to the rigidity ofthe labour market and created new incentivesto work in the underground economy. 26Suspension ofthe demographic factor was ... the doctors andthe health insurancefunds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf ofthe doctors and negotiates collec-tive contracts with the funds. Because ofthe KBV system, the funds...
... the embeddedness of governing elites (that is, thepolitical leadership andthe economic technocracy) in state institutions, andthe way technocrats andpolitical leaders relate to each other ... discussion ofthe institutional configuration of state power in Thailand andthe Philippines, a discussion that will occupy the rest of this dissertation. Thailand’s Bureaucratic Polity andthe ... STRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE POLITICALECONOMYOF THAILAND ANDTHE PHILIPPINES by Antoinette R. Raquiza Adviser: Professor Susan L. Woodward This dissertation investigates the factors...
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... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the mythssurrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid andthe degree of capital ... development and modernisa-tion and, in highlighting the poverty ofthe mainstream, offers criticalinsight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice and thepoliticaland ... anti-market, where the great predatorsroam andthe law ofthe jungle operates. This … is the real home of capitalism’ (Braudel 1982: 229–30).This zone is ‘on the top floor ofthe house oftrade (Arrighi...
... introduces the reader to the contours ofthepoliticaleconomyof development andthe institutionalregime within which ‘creditor states’13compete and co-operate in the extension of markets. The term ... literature of internationalpoliticaleconomy has allowed neoliberalism to remain the dominant ideology ofinternational development theory and for the Great Predators ofthe age – the multinational ... debt, andthe higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’12adjustment. Then, the negotiated settlement ofthe debt crisis, between the creditor banks, the creditor governments andthe international...
... critically obscures how the divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the politicaleconomyof development. It ... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii),in the boardroom ofthe global economy, and their relatively smallnumber explains in part both the herd ... brief overview ofthe availability of liquidity from the private sector andthe public sector in the form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationshipconceptually and practically...
... greater prof-itability of merchant capital through ‘opening’ markets and the promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction ofthe ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of ... of equity, andthe institutionalisation of riskwhich underwrites it, forms the skeleton ofthepoliticaleconomy of development in the poorest and most indebted countries. It secures and returns ... senior official in the CDC in1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would takeinvestment decisions:by understanding the human nature of these people, how theyare moving and the...
... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen-tative ofthe British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence ofthe Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge ... interests:those ofthe British state which sponsored it andthe particular interests of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of the colonies in the world economyand sterling ... the more conservative views of first the Colonial Office and then the Overseas Development Ministry. The Corporation saw its role from 1948:as being primarily to raise the living standards of...
... centre ofthepoliticaland culturalproblem of relational poverty. As Mayer summarises, again in terms of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: the real problem remains one ofpolitical will on most fronts, of social ... management of development finance and the socialisation of risk in the markets ofthe South, emerged.This chapter has given an historical review ofthe frontier institu-tions ofthe British state and ... Africa in both these years, and presumably most of those in between. Meanwhile, the aiddependence ofthe countries at the low end ofthe HDI ranking is reflected in the high figures of Official Development...