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• 1. Chinese Banking in the Age of Capitalism: Piaohao, Hinterland, and Treaty Ports
• 2. Elements of Remittance Banking in Late Imperial China
• 3. The Political Economy of Piaohao: The Market, Provinces, and the State, 1850-1895
• 4. Piaohao in the Age of Fiscal Centralization, 1895-1911
• 5. Fortunes of the Firms and Families Under the Chinese Hinterland Capitalism.
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This book examines Shanxi piaohao-private financiers from the Chinese hinterland-in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and financial institutions of late imperial China, the book foregrounds the expansionist role played by Shanxi piaohao in transforming China's market and trade from an agrarian empire to a modern nation state. In a departure for economic history, it also focuses on the histories of the people and their lifeworlds behind financial institutions, which have previously been erased by universal capitalist narratives. Persistent binary oppositions between coastal areas and hinterland; state and market; and institutions and families are each transcended in recounting the local histories of global capital in the marginalized countryside and borderlands of China. Based on a wealth of archival material and correspondence with Shanxi piaohao offices and branches, Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and economic history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies more generally.
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"Edited collection with contributions from notable economists on policy solutions to the problem of economic inequality in advanced economies"-- Provided by publisher

"Edited collection with contributions from notable economists on policy solutions to the problem of economic inequality in advanced economies"-- Provided by publisher.

• The Meanings of Consumption
• An Aspiration for All the World: Championing Individual Freedom of Choice
• The System: Capitalist Consumerism
• Private Choices, Public Problems
• The Shopocalypse
• Consumption, Power, and Liberation
• Shopping Police.

"A crystal-clear guide to how consumption greases the wheels of modern capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction: Formation of Selfhood--
• 2. Growth Mindset: Normalization of Perpetual Improvement--
• 3. Grit: The Technical Management of Passion--
• 4. Emotion Regulation: Strategic Self-Management--
• 5. Lifelong Learning: Sentencing Learners to Life--
• 6. Creativity: An Organizing Value--
• 7. Whole Child: Leave No Part Behind--
• 8. Conclusion.
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Psychological constructs - such as emotion regulation, creativity, grit, growth mindset, lifelong learning, and whole child - are appealing as pedagogical aspirations and outcomes. Researchers, policy-makers, and educators are likely to endorse and accept these constructs as ways to make sense of students and inform pedagogical decision-making. Few critically interrogate these constructs, as they are associated with students' academic achievement, psychological well-being, civic virtue, and career readiness. However, this book shows how these constructs become entangled in a neoliberal vision of selfhood, which is tied to market prescriptions and is thus associated with problematic ethical, psychological, moral, and economic consequences. The chapters draw attention to the ideological underpinnings in order to facilitate conversations about selfhood in schooling policy and practices.
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Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unfinished. Beginning with that most fundamental of questions - "Do we really want what we say we want?" - Fisher explores the relationship between desire and capitalism, and wonders what new forms of desire we might still excavate from the past, present, and future. From the emergence and failure of the counterculture in the 1970s to the continued development of his left-accelerationist line of thinking, this volume charts a tragically interrupted course for thinking about the raising of a new kind of consciousness, and the cultural and political implications of doing so. For Fisher, this process of consciousness raising was always, fundamentally, psychedelic - just not in the way that we might think...
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• Part I. Paul Douglas and his Regression, 1927-1948:
• 1. The Origins of Douglas's Production Function Research Program and his Initial Time Series Studies--
• 2. The Douglas-Mendershausen Debate and the Cross Section Studies--
• 3. Theoretical and Econometric Challenges of the Early 1940s, and Douglas's Final Word-- Part II. The Diffusion of the Cobb-Douglas Regression:
• 4. Three Important Developments in the Life of the Cobb-Douglas Regression, 1952-1961--
• 5. The Cobb-Douglas Regression in Agricultural Economics, 1944-1965--
• 6. The Cobb-Douglas Regression as a Tool for Measuring and Explaining Economic Growth-- Part III. Conclusion--
• 7. On the Success of the Cobb-Douglas Regression-- References-- Index.
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The Cobb-Douglas regression, a statistical technique developed to estimate what economists called a 'production function', was introduced in the late 1920s. For several years, only economist Paul Douglas and a few collaborators used the technique, while vigorously defending it against numerous critics. By the 1950s, however, several economists beyond Douglas's circle were using the technique, and by the 1970s, Douglas's regression, and more sophisticated procedures inspired by it, had become standard parts of the empirical economist's toolkit. This volume is the story of the Cobb-Douglas regression from its introduction to its acceptance as general-purpose research tool. The story intersects with the histories of several important empirical research programs in twentieth century economics, and vividly portrays the challenges of empirical economic research during that era. Fundamentally, this work represents a case study of how a controversial, innovative research tool comes to be widely accepted by a community of scholars.
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"At the 1927 meetings of the American Economic Association, Paul Douglas presented a paper entitled "A Theory of Production", which he had coauthored with Charles Cobb. The paper proposed the now familiar Cobb-Douglas function as a general mathematical representation of the relationship between the amounts of capital and labor employed in the US manufacturing sector and the quantity of output produced by that sector. The paper's innovation, however, was not the function itself, as this functional form had been previously proposed by Knut Wicksell and others; but the use of the function as the basis of a statistical procedure for estimating the parameters of this relationship. It is this procedure, a linear regression of the log of a measure of the output of some production activity on the logs of measures of inputs used in the activity, that I call in this book "the Cobb-Douglas regression". In a broader sense, the paper's innovation was the idea motivating and underlying the particular linear regression used by Cobb and Douglas: that a stable, quantifiable relationship between the inputs to and outputs of production processes existed and could be discovered through regression analysis, and that knowledge of this relationship would help to answer important questions of economic theory and policy"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: What is property?
• The case against private property
• Nozick's libertarianism and the natural right to property
• Natural law and the roots of self-ownership
• Property for the greater good : utilitarian theories of ownership
• Ownership as will in the world : Gegel's account of property
• Property within justice : Rawls and beyond

Few political ideas are as divisive and controversial for some - and yet taken for granted by others - as the ownership of private property. For its defenders, private ownership is a fundamental right that protects individual freedom and ensures wider economic benefits for the community; for its critics, by contrast, property is institutionalised theft, responsible for lamentable levels of inequality and poverty. In this book, Robert Lamb explores philosophical arguments deployed to conceptualise, justify, and criticise private property ownership. He introduces the radical case against property advanced by anarchist and socialist writers, before analysing some of the most important and influential arguments in its favour. Lamb explains and assesses the various defences of property rights advanced by Locke, Hume, Hegel, J. S. Mill, and Nozick. He then shows how theorists such as John Rawls and his followers encourage us to rethink the very nature of ownership in a democratic society. This engaging synthesis of historical and contemporary theories of property will be essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy.
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"Where do our ideas about economics and economic policy come from? Critics of contemporary economics complain that belief in free markets, among economists and many ordinary citizens too, is a form of religion. It turns out that there is something to the idea: not in the way the critics mean, but in a deeper, more historically grounded sense. Contrary to the conventional historical view of economics as entirely a secular product of the Enlightenment, religion exerted a powerful influence from the outset. Benjamin M. Friedman demonstrates that the foundational transition in thinking about what we now call economics, beginning in the eighteenth century, was decisively shaped by the hotly contended lines of religious thought within the English-speaking Protestant world. Beliefs about God-given human character, about our destiny after this life, and about the purpose of our existence, were all under challenge in the world in which Adam Smith and his contemporaries lived. Those debates explain the puzzling behavior so many of our fellow citizens whose views about economic policies, and whose voting behavior too, seems sharply at odds with what would be to their own economic benefit. Understanding the origins of the relationship between religious thinking and economic thinking, together with its ongoing consequences, provides insights into our current economic policy debates and ways to shape more functional policies for all citizens"-- Provided by publisher.

• The puzzle
• Empirical pattern in the United States
• The theory of consumption as wage labor
• Economic fairness and the wage labor background
• Standardization of consumption, work, and wages
• Standardizing utility: brands, commercial, and legal warranties
• Product testing and product regularization
• Moral panic about utility: planned obsolescence
• Conclusion: Capitalism, commensuration, and the normativity of economic action.

"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which have questionable or marginal value, and (by comparison) so lacking in free time?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Value as Substance
• Value as Relation
• Value as Utility
• Value and Institutions
• Value as Struggle
• Value in Crisis.

"Why are some things worth more than others? A leading expert investigates"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment
• Chapter 2 Science and System
• Chapter 3 Morality and Sympathy
• Chapter 4 Justice and Virtue
• Chapter 5 Jurisprudence
• Chapter 6 The Nature of Wealth
• Chapter 7 Government and the Market
• Chapter 8 Legacy and Influence Notes Bibliography.
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Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of Wealth of Nations. There is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith's thought. It demonstrates how Smith's economic theories fit into a larger system of thought that encompasses moral philosophy, philosophy of science, legal and political theory, and aesthetics. Examining the central arguments of his major works, ranging from The Theory of Moral Sentiments to his lectures on jurisprudence and beyond, Smith's thought is explained in its full intellectual and historical context. As the book unfolds, the long-standing caricature of Adam Smith as an uncritical defender of capitalism red in tooth and claw is systematically challenged, revealing a far more complex and nuanced figure whose rich legacy remains highly relevant today. Comprehensive yet concise, this book will be the leading introduction to Adam Smith's ideas for generations of students, scholars and general readers, relevant to areas ranging from philosophy and the history of economic thought to political theory.
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• Introduction
• Time for a Rethink
• Translocal Livelihoods
• New Perspectives on Livelihood Research
• Vulnerability and Translocality: Why Livelihoods become Translocal
• Translocal Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Influence of Translocal Livelihoods on Aspects of Rural Structural Transformation
• Conclusion.

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies. It offers an overview of the research landscape and introduces an agency-centered theoretical model that provides a conceptual framework for translocality. The authors Malte Steinbrink and Hannah Niedenführ plead for a translocal approach to social transformation, showing how the translocality of livelihoods is shaping the lives of half a billion people on the continent and impacting local conditions. Using an action-oriented approach, the book analyzes the effects of translocal livelihoods on diverse aspects of economic, environmental and social change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. The study thus makes an innovative contribution not only to migration research and development studies but also to the discussion around the policy and practice of development cooperation and planning. It is time to rethink development in light of translocal realities. The book appeals to scholars and researchers in geography, sociology, policy-making and planning, development studies, migration research and rural development.

• Notes on contributors
• Introduction : Migration and Mobility in and out of Africa / Hana Horáková and Stephanie Rudwick
• Sedentarisation, Continuous Mobility and Gender among Tuaregs in the North of Niger / Sarah Lunaček
• Redefining Female Freedom in Contemporary African Women's Migrant Writing / Dobrota Pucherová
• "My Body is African, but my Soul is Czech" : Othering and Belonging in the Biographies of The Namibian Czechs / Kateřina Mildnerová
• Language, Class and Racial Mobility in South Africa / Stephanie Rudwick
• Between Tradition and Modernity : The Non-Ethnic Identity in Post-Genocide Rwanda / Vojtěch Šmolík
• Mobility of Values and Standpoints towards Democracy : South Africaʹs Fragile Democracy? / Martin Schmiedl

• Preface - Jordan T. Camp
• Editors' Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso
• Author's Note - David Harvey
• Acknowledgements
• Global Unrest A Brief History of Neoliberalism Contradictions of Neoliberalism The Financialization of Power The Authoritarian Turn Socialism and Freedom The Significance of China in the World Economy The Geopolitics of Capitalism The Growth Syndrome The Erosion of Consumer Choices Primitive or Original Accumulation Accumulation by Dispossession Production and Realization Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value Alienation Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19 The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma
• Discussion Questions and Further Readings
• Index.
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Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has been tracking the evolution of the capitalist system as well as tides of radical opposition rising against it. In The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Harvey introduces new ways of understanding the crisis of global capitalism and the struggles for a better world. While accounting for violence and disaster, Harvey also chronicles hope and possibility. By way of conversations about neoliberalism, capitalism, globalization, the environment, technology, social movements and crises like COVID-19, he outlines, with characteristic brilliance, how socialist alternatives are being imagined under very difficult circumstances. In understanding the economic, political and social dimensions of the crisis, Harvey's analysis in The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles will be of strategic importance to anyone wanting to both understand and change the world.
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