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Author : Mehrdad Vahabi
Release : 2016
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Predation by : Mehrdad Vahabi
Download or read book The Political Economy of Predation written by Mehrdad Vahabi. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.
Author : Mehrdad Vahabi
Release : 2015
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Book Synopsis Political Economy of Predation by : Mehrdad Vahabi
Download or read book Political Economy of Predation written by Mehrdad Vahabi. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Galbraith
Release : 2008-08-05
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Predator State by : James Galbraith
Download or read book The Predator State written by James Galbraith. This book was released on 2008-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A progressive economist challenges popular conservative-minded economic practices, in a scathing critique of Reagan-Bush policies that contends that the political right is misrepresenting the consequences of free-market and free-trade ideals. 50,000 first printing.
Author : The Research Unit for Political Economy
Release : 2020-11-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 243/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Crisis and Predation by : The Research Unit for Political Economy
Download or read book Crisis and Predation written by The Research Unit for Political Economy. This book was released on 2020-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship. Crisis and Predation shows how this tight-fistedness stems from the fact that global financial interests oppose any sizable expansion of public spending by India, and that Indian rulers readily adhere to their guidance. The authors reveal that global investors and a handful of top Indian corporate groups actually benefit from the resulting demand depression: armed with funds, they are picking up valuable assets at distress prices. Meanwhile, under the banner of reviving private investment, India’s rulers have planned giant privatizations, and drastically revised laws concerning industrial labor, the peasantry, and the environment—in favor of large capital. And yet, this book contends, India could defy the pressures of global finance in order to address the basic needs of its people. But this would require shedding reliance on foreign capital flows, and taking a course of democratic national development. This, then, is a pursuit, not for India’s ruling classes, but a course of struggle for India's people.
Author : Topher L. McDougal
Release : 2017-07-07
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict by : Topher L. McDougal
Download or read book The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict written by Topher L. McDougal. This book was released on 2017-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for these differences in the interface between urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To explore this question, this volume examines two regions representing two dramatically different outcomes. In West Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone), capital cities became economic targets for rebels, who posed dire threats to the survival of the state. In Maoist India, despite an insurgent ideology aiming to overthrow the state via a strategy of progressive city capture, the combat frontier effectively firewalls cities from Maoist violence. This book argues that trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas - termed 'interstitial economies' - may differ dramatically in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier. It explains rebel predatory tendencies towards cities as a function of transport networks allowing monopoly profits to be made by urban-based traders. It explains combat frontier delineation as a function of the social structure of the trade networks: hierarchical networks permit elite-elite bargains that cohere the frontier. These factors represent what might be termed respectively the 'hardware' and 'software' of the rural-urban economic relationship. Of interest to any student of political economy and violence, this book presents new arguments and insights about the relationships between violence and the economy, predation and production, core and periphery.
