the political economy of international trade and factor mobility

The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State

The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State

... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political regulation of economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... draft only 2 The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis of this paper is that the bio -economy is critically ... historical variants of the Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate...

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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

... change for the time being. Now the strategy is essentially 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 of the labour market and created new incentives to work in the underground economy. 26 Suspension of the demographic factor was ... the doctors and the health insurance funds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf of the doctors and negotiates collec- tive contracts with the funds. Because of the KBV system, the funds...

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State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines

State structure and economic development The political economy of Thailand and the Philippines

... the embeddedness of governing elites (that is, the political leadership and the economic technocracy) in state institutions, and the way technocrats and political leaders relate to each other ... discussion of the institutional configuration of state power in Thailand and the Philippines, a discussion that will occupy the rest of this dissertation. Thailand’s Bureaucratic Polity and the ... STRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THAILAND AND THE PHILIPPINES by Antoinette R. Raquiza Adviser: Professor Susan L. Woodward This dissertation investigates the factors...

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at the boundaries of international trade and finance developing countries and the regulatory convergence between the international monetary fund and the world trade organization

at the boundaries of international trade and finance developing countries and the regulatory convergence between the international monetary fund and the world trade organization

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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_1 doc

... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital ... development and modernisa- tion and, in highlighting the poverty of the mainstream, offers critical insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice and the political and ... anti-market, where the great predators roam and the law of the jungle operates. This … is the real home of capitalism’ (Braudel 1982: 229–30). This zone is ‘on the top floor of the house of trade (Arrighi...

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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_2 pot

... introduces the reader to the contours of the political economy of development and the institutional regime within which ‘creditor states’ 13 compete and co-operate in the extension of markets. The term ... literature of international political economy has allowed neoliberalism to remain the dominant ideology of international development theory and for the Great Predators of the age – the multinational ... debt, and the higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’ 12 adjustment. Then, the negotiated settlement of the debt crisis, between the creditor banks, the creditor governments and the international...

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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_3 docx

... 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 political economy of development. It ... concentrated in the IFIs and large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd ... brief overview of the availability of liquidity from the private sector and the public sector in the form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship conceptually and practically...

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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_4 pot

... greater prof- itability of merchant capital through ‘opening’ markets and the promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction of the ability of governments to tax moving goods), the role of ... of equity, and the institutionalisation of risk which underwrites it, forms the skeleton of the political economy of development in the poorest and most indebted countries. It secures and returns ... senior official in the CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the...

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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_5 docx

... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen- tative of the British state, with promotion of local citizens and the presence of the Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge ... interests: those of the British state which sponsored it and the particular interests of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of the colonies in the world economy and 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...

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Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_6 ppt

Money and Power Great Predators in the Political Economy of Development_6 ppt

... centre of the political and cultural problem of relational poverty. As Mayer summarises, again in terms of the HIV/AIDS pandemic: the real problem remains one of political will on most fronts, of social ... management of development finance and the socialisation of risk in the markets of the South, emerged. This chapter has given an historical review of the frontier institu- tions of the British state and ... Africa in both these years, and presumably most of those in between. Meanwhile, the aid dependence of the countries at the low end of the HDI ranking is reflected in the high figures of Official Development...

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