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Download or read book Shifting Capital written by Aida Ramos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Act of Union was passed in 1707, Scottish parliament was dissolved and the nation’s capital became London. While the general public balked at the perceived unfairness of the treaty, the majority of Scottish ministers seemed satisfied with its terms. This book offers an explanation of how that outcome came about. By examining the influence of a particular strain of mercantilist thought, Ramos demonstrates how the negotiations preceding the passage of the Act of Union were shaped by ideas of value, wealth, trade and power, and, accordingly, how the model of positive balance was used to justify the necessity of the Act. Utilizing contemporary evidence from the English and Scottish ministers involved, this book explores alternative arguments regarding the Union, from before 1707 and in early Scottish political economy, thus highlighting the differing economic and political views that have persisted between England and Scotland for centuries. With twenty-first century discontent leading to the Scottish independence referendum and arguments that persist in the wake of the Brexit decision, Ramos produces timely research that investigates ideas of protectionism that feed into mercantilist economic thought.
Book Synopsis Shape-Shifting Capital by : George González
Download or read book Shape-Shifting Capital written by George González and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shape-Shifting Capital: Spiritual Management, Critical Theory, and the Ethnographic Project is positioned at the intersection of anthropology, critical theory, and philosophy of religion. First, González explores the phenomena of “workplace spirituality” in a language that is accessible to a general readership. Taking contemporary trends in organizational management as a case study, he argues, by way of a detailed ethnographic study of practitioners of workplace spirituality, that the conceptual and institutional boundaries between religion, science, and capitalism are being redrawn by theologized management appropriations of tropes borrowed from creativity theory and quantum mechanics. Second, González makes a case for a critical anthropology of religion that combines existential concerns for biography and intentionality with poststructuralist concerns for power, arguing that the ways in which the personalization of metaphor bridges personal and social histories also helps bring about broader epistemic shifts in society. Finally, in a postsecular age in which capitalism itself is explicitly and confidently “spiritual,” González suggests that it is imperative to reorient our critical energies towards a present day evaluation of postmodern capitalism’s boundary-blurring. González further argues that the kind of “existential deconstruction” performed by what he calls “existential archeology” can serve the needs of any social criticism of neoliberal “religion” and corporate spirituality.
Download or read book Capital Moves written by Jefferson Cowie and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s—a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent.
Author :Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman Publisher :New York, The Columbia University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :444 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation by : Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
Download or read book The Shifting and Incidence of Taxation written by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman and published by New York, The Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1910 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the theories of taxation by studying taxes on agricultural land, real estate taxes, and mortgage taxes. Also studies many theories on taxes from Capitalization theory, Eclectic theory, and Agnostic theories, among others.
Download or read book Inland Shift written by Juan De Lara and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California into a majority-nonwhite state. In Inland Shift, Juan D. De Lara uses the growth of Southern California’s logistics economy, which controls the movement of goods, to examine how modern capitalism was shaped by and helped to transform the region’s geographies of race and class. While logistics provided a roadmap for capital and the state to transform Southern California, it also created pockets of resistance among labor, community, and environmental groups who argued that commodity distribution exposed them to economic and environmental precarity.
Book Synopsis Climate Change Solutions by : Diana Stuart
Download or read book Climate Change Solutions written by Diana Stuart and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change Solutions represents an application of critical theory to examine proposed solutions to climate change. Drawing from Marx’s negative conception of ideology, the authors illustrate how ideology continues to conceal the capital-climate contradiction or the fundamental incompatibility between growth-dependent capitalism and effectively and justly mitigating climate change. Dominant solutions to climate change that offer minor changes to the current system fail to address this contradiction. However, alternatives like degrowth involve a shift in priorities and power relations and can offer new systemic arrangements that confront and move beyond the capital-climate contradiction. While there are clear barriers to a systemic transition that prioritizes social and ecological well-being, such a transition is possible and desirable.
Book Synopsis Capital in the Twenty-First Century by : Thomas Piketty
Download or read book Capital in the Twenty-First Century written by Thomas Piketty and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria by : Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture
Download or read book The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria written by Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Journal of the Department of Victoria by : Victoria. Department of Agriculture
Download or read book The Journal of the Department of Victoria written by Victoria. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slow Moving Capital by : Mark Mitchell
Download or read book Slow Moving Capital written by Mark Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We study three cases in which specialized arbitrageurs lost significant amounts of capital and, as a result, became liquidity demanders rather than providers. The effects on security markets were large and persistent: Prices dropped relative to fundamentals and the rebound took months. While multi-strategy hedge funds who were not capital constrained increased their positions, a large fraction of these funds actually acted as net sellers consistent with the view that information barriers within a firm (not just relative to outside investors) can lead to capital constraints for trading desks with mark-to-market losses. Our findings suggest that real world frictions impede arbitrage capital.
Book Synopsis A Manual of Forestry: The utility of forests, and fundamental principles of sylviculture. By W. Schlich. 1889 by : Sir William Schlich
Download or read book A Manual of Forestry: The utility of forests, and fundamental principles of sylviculture. By W. Schlich. 1889 written by Sir William Schlich and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Manual of Forestry: Introduction to forestry. By W. Schlich. 2d ed., rev. and enl. 1896 by : Sir William Schlich
Download or read book A Manual of Forestry: Introduction to forestry. By W. Schlich. 2d ed., rev. and enl. 1896 written by Sir William Schlich and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fossil Capital written by Andreas Malm and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labour. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order.
Book Synopsis Outlines of Land Economics: Characteristics and classification of land by : Richard Theodore Ely
Download or read book Outlines of Land Economics: Characteristics and classification of land written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Outlines of Land Economics by : Richard Theodore Ely
Download or read book Outlines of Land Economics written by Richard Theodore Ely and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Great Britain. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :286 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (3 download)
Book Synopsis Papers and Reports Upon Forestry, Forest Schools, Forest Administration and Management, in Europe, America, and the British Possessions, and Upon Forests as Public Parks and Sanitary Resorts Collected by A. Kirkwood ... to Accompany the Report of the Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park
Download or read book Papers and Reports Upon Forestry, Forest Schools, Forest Administration and Management, in Europe, America, and the British Possessions, and Upon Forests as Public Parks and Sanitary Resorts Collected by A. Kirkwood ... to Accompany the Report of the Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Ontario. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :330 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (863 download)
Book Synopsis Report of Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park ; And, Papers and Reports Upon Forestry, Forest Schools, Etc by : Ontario. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park
Download or read book Report of Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park ; And, Papers and Reports Upon Forestry, Forest Schools, Etc written by Ontario. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
