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Book Synopsis Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe's Heavy Industry by : Aleksandra Sznajder Lee
Download or read book Transnational Capitalism in East Central Europe's Heavy Industry written by Aleksandra Sznajder Lee and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the steel industry during the post-communist transition from 1989 through 2009, Aleksandra Sznajder Lee traces the transformation of flagship state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia into the subsidiaries of large, international corporations. By analyzing this transformation at the three levels of enterprise, sector, and national-international nexus, she identifies the players—from international investors and European Union members to national labor unions and local industry managers—in the political economy of reform. Even in the midst of the transition to a capitalist, democratic system, Sznajder Lee finds, the state plays a key role in mediating between domestic vested interests and external pressures from international financial markets and institutions, on the one hand, and regional institutions on the other. Whereas state power may be employed to require domestic firms to operate as capitalists in the international market, it may also be used to shield enterprises from market pressures in order to promote the political and personal preferences of the elite. This book has broad implications for the political economy of reform because it illuminates the political determinants of privatization and the resources used to resist it. In addition, Sznajder Lee sheds new light on why some countries are more likely than others to be subject to external constraints, such as IMF conditionality, and how some allegedly pro-market reformers manage to maintain public ownership over certain industry sectors.
Book Synopsis Neither German nor Pole by : James Bjork
Download or read book Neither German nor Pole written by James Bjork and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the interplay between religious and national identity in late nineteenth-century Central Europe." ---Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Neither German nor Pole examines how the inhabitants of one of Europe's most densely populated industrial districts managed to defy clear-cut national categorization, even in the heyday of nationalizing pressures at the turn of the twentieth century. As James E. Bjork argues, the "civic national" project of turning inhabitants of Upper Silesia into Germans and the "ethnic national" project of awakening them as Poles both enjoyed successes, but these often canceled one another out, exacerbating rather than eliminating doubts about people's national allegiances. In this deadlock, it was a different kind of identification---religion---that provided both the ideological framework and the social space for Upper Silesia to navigate between German and Polish orientations. A fine-grained, microhistorical study of how confessional politics and the daily rhythms of bilingual Roman Catholic religious practice subverted national identification, Neither German nor Pole moves beyond local history to address broad questions about the relationship between nationalism, religion, and modernity.
Book Synopsis Markets, States, and Public Policy by : Nikolaos Zahariadis
Download or read book Markets, States, and Public Policy written by Nikolaos Zahariadis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical and empirical examination of the move towards privatization
Book Synopsis Rebuilding Capitalism by : Andrés Solimano
Download or read book Rebuilding Capitalism written by Andrés Solimano and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers the historical origins of the current wave of market-oriented reform, reviews existing controversies on the design of economic reforms, and offers alternative criteria to evaluate policy performance. In particular it focuses on issues of macroeconomic adjustment and stabilization, liberalization policies, reform of the state, and interactions between economic and political transformation during the course of systemic transformation.
Book Synopsis Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration by : Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Download or read book Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration written by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how transnational actors mediate these changes.
Book Synopsis Varieties of Capitalism by : Peter A. Hall
Download or read book Varieties of Capitalism written by Peter A. Hall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.
Book Synopsis The Transnational Capitalist Class by : Leslie Sklair
Download or read book The Transnational Capitalist Class written by Leslie Sklair and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most of the popular and academic debates explore ideas of globalization, The Transnational Capitalist Class goes one step further and provides theoretically informed empirical research to explain and deconstruct the process of globalization as seen by the corporations themselves. Using personal interviews with executives and managers from over eighty Fortune Global 500 corporations, as well as already published sources, Sklair demonstrates how globalization works from the perspective of those who control and oppose the major globalizing corporations and their allies in government and the media. The book explores two major crises of globalization - class polarization and ecological sustainability - and shows how the transnational capitalist class attempts to resolve these crises and evaluates its own success and failure. Sklair's unique approach brings a fresh perspective to what has become a key debate of our time.
Book Synopsis A Theory of Global Capitalism by : William I. Robinson
Download or read book A Theory of Global Capitalism written by William I. Robinson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sure to stir controversy and debate, A Theory of Global Capitalism will be of interest to sociologists and economists alike.
Book Synopsis State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies by : John Pickles
Download or read book State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies written by John Pickles and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies provides detailed examinations of a range of state-society relations in post-socialism. It examines ways that the state regulates or sets the parameters for regulating capitalist practices and the ways in which the state interacts with social groups focused on changing state policy. The cases cover the full range of post-socialist countries, from the Central European new members of the EU, to those in Eastern Europe, as well as a range of countries of the former Soviet Union, including a "progressive" country (Lithuania) and a "reform resister" (Belarus).
Book Synopsis Global Capitalism by : Jeffry A. Frieden
Download or read book Global Capitalism written by Jeffry A. Frieden and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914–45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008.
Book Synopsis The Retreat of Liberal Democracy by : Gábor Scheiring
Download or read book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy written by Gábor Scheiring and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of three years of empirical research, four years in politics, and a lifetime in a country experiencing three different regimes. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it provides a fresh answer to a simple yet profound question: why has liberal democracy retreated? Scheiring argues that Hungary’s new hybrid authoritarian regime emerged as a political response to the tensions of globalisation. He demonstrates how Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz exploited the rising nationalism among the working-class casualties of deindustrialisation and the national bourgeoisie to consolidate illiberal hegemony. As the world faces a new wave of autocratisation, Hungary’s lessons become relevant across the globe, and this book represents a significant contribution to understanding challenges to democracy. This work will be useful to students and researchers across political sociology, political science, economics and social anthropology, as well democracy advocates.
Book Synopsis Global Trends 2040 by : National Intelligence Council
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Book Synopsis International Press Correspondence by :
Download or read book International Press Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis News Bulletin - International Union of Food & Allied Workers' Associations by : International Union of Food and Allied Workers' Associations
Download or read book News Bulletin - International Union of Food & Allied Workers' Associations written by International Union of Food and Allied Workers' Associations and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Austerities and Aspirations by : Béla Tomka
Download or read book Austerities and Aspirations written by Béla Tomka and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945. The novelty of the book lies in its broad comparative perspective: it places East Central Europe in a wider European framework that underlines the themes of regional disparities and European commonalities. Going beyond the traditional growth paradigm, the author systematically studies the historical patterns of consumption, leisure, and quality of life—aspects that Tomka argues can best be considered in relation to one other. By adopting this “triple approach,” he undertakes a truly interdisciplinary research drawing from history, economics, sociology, and demography. As a result of Tomka’s three-pillar comparative analysis, the book makes a major contribution to the debates on the dynamics of economic growth in communist and postcommunist East Central Europe, on the socialist consumer culture along with its transformation after 1990, and on how the accounts on East Central Europe can be integrated into the emerging field of historical quality of life research.
Book Synopsis The Economic Opening of Eastern Europe by : John Williamson
Download or read book The Economic Opening of Eastern Europe written by John Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Screen Industries in East-Central Europe by : Petr Szczepanik
Download or read book Screen Industries in East-Central Europe written by Petr Szczepanik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: East-central European media as digital peripheries -- Post-socialist producer: the production culture of a small and peripheral media industry -- Managing the 'Ida effect': an art-house producer breaking out of the periphery -- The service producer and the globalization of media production -- Breaking through the East European ceiling: minority co-production and the new symbolic economy of small-market cinemas -- Public service television as a producer -- HBO Europe's original programming in the era of streaming wars -- Digital producers: short-form web television positions itself between clickbait and public service -- Conclusion: 'Hi circumscription' in the era of global streamers, and more questions to be asked.
