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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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• Introduction: We Have the Tools to Reverse the Rise in Inequality
• I: The Landscape
• 1. Ten Facts about Inequality in Advanced Economies
• 2. Discussion of the Landscape
• II: Ethical and Philosophical Dimensions
• 3. Time for New Philosophical Foundations for Economic Theory?
• 4. What Kinds of Inequality Should Economists Address?
• 5. Why Does Inequality Matter?
• III: Political Dimensions
• 6. Wealth Inequality and Politics
• 7. The Political Conditions Necessary for Addressing Inequality
• 8. The Political Obstacles to Tackling Economic Inequality in the United States
• IV: The Distribution of Human Capital
• 9. A Modern Safety Net
• 10. Education's Untapped Potential
• V: Policies toward Trade, Outsourcing, and Foreign Investment
• 11. Why Was the "China Shock" So Shocking-and What Does This Mean for Policy?
• 12. Trade, Labor Markets, and the China Shock: What Can Be Learned from the German Experience?
• 13. Combating Inequality: Rethinking Policies to Reduce Inequality in Advanced Economies
• VI: The (Re)distribution of Financial Capital
• 14. How to Increase Taxes on the Rich (If You Must)
• 15. Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality?
• 16. Should We Tax Wealth?
• VII: Policies That Affect the Rate and Direction of Technological Change
• 17. Could We and Should We Reverse (Excessive) Automation?
• 18. Innovation and Inequality
• 19. Technological Change, Income Inequality, and Good Jobs
• VIII: Labor Market Policies, Institutions, and Social Norms
• 20. Gender Inequality
• 21. Ownership Cures for Inequality
• IX: Labor Market Tools
• 22. Guaranteeing Employment for All
• 23. Making Work Work
• 24. The Importance of Enforcement in Designing Effective Labor Market Tools
• X: Social Safety Net
• 25. Enhancing Micro and Macro Resilience by Building on the Improvements in the Social Safety Net
• 26. The Social Safety Net for Families with Children: What Is Working and How to Do More
• XI: Progressive Taxation
• 27. Reflections on Taxation in Support of Redistributive Policies
• 28. Why Do We Not Support More Redistribution? New Explanations from Economics Research
• 29. Can a Wealth Tax Work?

"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

Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and - if they can afford the price - their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in economic theory before analyzing its centrality to our social lives and function in contemporary capitalism. They also outline the consequences it has for people and nature, consequences routinely made invisible in the shopping mall or online catalogue. Hudson and Hudson show, in an approachable manner, how patterns of consumption are influenced by cultures, individual preferences and identity formation before arguing that underlying these determinants is the unavoidable need within capitalism to realize profit. This accessible and comprehensive book will be essential reading for students and scholars of political economy, economics and economic sociology, as well as any reader who wants to confront their own practices of consumption in a meaningful way.
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"A fresh comparative introduction to modern capitalism in an age of financial instability and spiralling inequality"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Between Isolation and Assimilation: Understanding the Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship
• Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship, The Diaspora and Return
• Chapter 3: Returnee Entrepreneurship and Institutions
• Chapter 4: Bringing the Diaspora Home: Policy Development and Priorities for Returnee Investment
• Chapter 5: Intention to Return: The Responses of Returnees to Home Institutional Environments
• Chapter 6: How Emotional Ties Influence the Diaspora to Return
• Chapter 7: The Impact of Internal Displacement and External Migration of Institutional Trust
• Chapter 8: Engaging Returnee Entrepreneurs Through Institutional Change
• Chapter 9: Conclusions: Implications for Theory, Policy, and Practice References.
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With increased movements of people around the world, the role of transnational economic activity is becoming ever more significant. Yet little is understood about the motivations and contribution of those who return to their homeland to undertake entrepreneurial activity. The Diaspora and Returnee Entrepreneurship analyzes the role that the diaspora play when returning as entrepreneurs to their homeland. Nick Williams investigates "returnee entrepreneurs, " or people who have moved away from their home country, lived as part of the diaspora, and later returned home to live, invest, or both. Based on exhaustive research, this book examines the motivations and activities of these returnee entrepreneurs coming back to challenging homeland economies. Williams draws on evidence from the post-conflict economies of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro, all of which are characterized by relatively weak institutional environments. His analysis shows how return to complex environments is often not based on perceived profit opportunities but is due to an emotional attachment informing investment decisions. Exploring questions of isolation versus assimilation, institutional involvement, and personal networking, the book covers more than just the policy approaches that extract higher levels of remittances and studies broad and varied approaches being used by governments around the world, specifically those in post-conflict economies. Through an in-depth study of the dynamics of return and entrepreneurship, this book shows that concerted efforts need to be made to improve perceptions of state political institutions among the diaspora to secure further assimilation, investment, and prosperity. Williams proves that by understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with diaspora return entrepreneurship, more effective strategies can, and should, be put in place.
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• Introduction: austerity, gender and COVID-
• Gendered impact of austerity
• The austerity deception: gendered economics
• Alternative future.

"A devastating account of how women bear the brunt of crisis and austerity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface:
• 1. Liberal property--
• 2. Some basics--
• 3. Autonomy and private authority--
• 4. Property's structural pluralism--
• 5. Property's relational justice--
• 6. Making property law--
• 7. Just markets--
• 8. Property transitions--
• 9. Afterword-- Notes.
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Property enhances autonomy for most people, but not for all. Because it both empowers and disables, property requires constant vigilance. A Liberal Theory of Property addresses key questions: how can property be justified? What core values should property law advance, and how do those values interrelate? How is a liberal state obligated to act when shaping property law? In a liberal polity, the primary commitment to individual autonomy dominates the justification of property, founding it on three pillars: carefully delineated private authority, structural (but not value) pluralism, and relational justice. A genuinely liberal property law meets the legitimacy challenge confronting property by expanding people's opportunities for individual and collective self-determination while carefully restricting their options of interpersonal domination. The book shows how the three pillars of liberal property account for core features of existing property systems, provide a normative vocabulary for evaluating central doctrines, and offer directions for urgent reforms.
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• 1: Ralph Chami, Mattia Coppo, Raphael Espinoza, and Peter Montiel: Macroeconomic Policy Issues in Fragile States: A Framework
• 2: Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson: Building Inclusive States: A Simple Framework
• 3: Paul Collier: Transition Programs: A Theory of the Scaffolding Needed to Build out of Fragility
• 4: Thomas Risse: Building Governance Capacity in Areas of Limited Statehood
• 5: Daouda Sembene: The Role of Trust in Rebuilding Countries in Fragile and Conflict Situations
• 6: Nabila Assaf, Michael Engman, Alexandros Ragoussis, and Sarthak Agrawal: The Private Sector in Fragile Situations
• 7: Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami, and Connel Fullenkamp: The State of Finance in Fragile States
• 8: Ralph Chami, Thomas F. Cosimano, Raphael Espinoza, and Peter Montiel: The Challenge of Macroeconomic Stabilization in Fragile States
• 9: Timothy Besley and Hannes Mueller: Fiscal Capacity and State Fragility
• 10: Gary Milante and Michael Woolcock: Fiscal Policy in Fragile Situations: Flying in Fog with Limited Instrumentation
• 11: Katherine Baer, Sanjeev Gupta, Mario Mansour, and Sailendra Pattanayak: Building Fiscal Institutions in Fragile States-A Two-Step Approach
• 12: Warren Coats: Establishing a New Currency and Central Bank in Fragile States
• 13: Christopher Adam and James Wilson: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Fragile States
• 14: Ibrahim Elbadawi, Raimundo Soto, and Isaac Z. Martinez: Exports, Exchange Regimes, and Fragility
• 15: Ralph Chami, Ekkehard Ernst, Connel Fullenkamp, and Anne Oeking: Do Financial Flows Make a Difference in Fragile States?
• 16: Francesca G. Caselli and Andrea F. Presbitero: Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States
• 17: Charles Collyns, Kevin Kuruc, and Shinji Takagi: Assessing the Role of the IMF in Fragile States
• 18: Ermal Hitaj, Chris Lane, Paulomi Mehta, and Rima Turk: Tailoring IMF-Supported Programs to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States' Needs: What Works?
• 19: Mark Griffiths, with Phil de Imus, Kareem Ismail, Gustavo Ramirez, Robert Tchaidze, and Ramzy Al Amine: Macroeconomic Policy Challenges in Conflict and Post-Conflict Countries: Experience and Lessons from the Middle East
• 20: Enrique Gelbard, Giorgia Albertin, Lars Engstrom, Jose Gijon, and Clara Mira: Exiting Fragility: The Experience of Five Sub-Saharan African Countries.
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Setting macroeconomic policy is especially difficult in fragile states. Political legitimacy concerns are heightened, raising issues such as who the policymakers are, what incentives they face, and how the process of policymaking is likely to work under limited legitimacy and high uncertainty both about the macroeconomic environment as well as policy effectiveness. In addition, fragility expands the range of policy objectives in ways that may constrain the attainment of standard macroeconomic objectives. Specifically, in the context of fragility policymakers also need to focus on measures to mitigate fragility itself - i.e., they need to address issues such as regional and ethnic economic disparities, youth unemployment, and food price inflation. Socio-political developments around the world have thus pushed policymakers to broaden their toolkit to improve the effectiveness of macroeconomic management in the face of these constraints. The chapters in Macroeconomic Policy in Fragile States address these issues, both by giving an analytical context from which policymakers can build to answer the questions they face in fragile situations as well as by providing lessons drawn from empirical analyses and case studies. The first section of the volume discusses the interactions between political economy considerations and macroeconomic policymaking. The second section covers the private sector environment in fragile states. The third section focuses on macroeconomic policy, especially fiscal policy, monetary policy, exchange rate policy, external flows, and aid effectiveness. The last section explains the role of the IMF in fragile states and concludes by presenting case studies from the Middle East and from Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors to the volume are economists and political scientists from academia as well as policymakers from international organizations and from countries affected by fragility.
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• 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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• A new paradigm
• The enigma of takeoffs
• Industrial revolutions: a blessing or a curse?
• Is competition a good thing?
• Innovation, inequality, and taxation
• The secular stagnation debate
• Convergence, divergence, and the middle-income trap
• Industrialization at all costs?
• Green innovation and sustainable growth
• Innovation: behind the scenes
• Creative destruction, health, and happiness
• Financing creative destruction
• How to manage globalization
• The emergence of the investor-state, then the insurer-state
• Creative destruction and the golden triangle
• Conclusion: The future of capitalism.

"The solution to inequality, environmental degradation, and other deficits of capitalism is better capitalism. The Power of Creative Destruction draws on cutting-edge research to argue that what we need today is not revolution but reform: pro-competitive policies that enable innovation while compensating for the disruption it causes"-- Provided by publisher.

• 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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• 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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• 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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