Search Results - "Political Economy"

Catholic social teaching and economic globalization the quest for alternatives / by Sniegocki, John, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Overview of the contemporary global context : life stories -- Data on poverty, hunger, and inequality in an age of globalization -- The goals and structure of this book -- Development theory and practice : an overview -- Origins of the concept of development -- Modernization theory -- Modernization theory and U.S. aid policy -- The impact of modernizationist development -- Structuralist economic theories -- Dependency theories -- Basic needs approach -- New international economic order -- Alternative development -- The impact of reformist thought on development policy -- Neoliberal resurgence and structural adjustment policies -- Current debates in development studies -- The failures of modernizationist development : a closer look -- The impacts of colonialism and slavery -- Post-WW II development policies and the third world debt crisis -- Consequences of the debt crisis -- Responses to the debt crisis -- United States opposition to social change in the third world -- Summary of major structural influences on the third world -- Catholic social teaching and development -- CST prior to Pope John XXIII -- Early reflections on development : John XXIII and Vatican II -- The pivotal contributions of Paul VI, the Latin American bishops, and justice in the world -- John Paul II : the centrality of solidarity -- The social ethics of Benedict XVI -- Summary of catholic social teaching on development issues -- Catholic social teaching and political economy : neoconservative and radical critiques -- Neoconservative reflections on CST -- Radical reflections on CST -- Evaluation of neoconservative, radical, and CST views -- Grassroots critics of development -- Rejecting the quest for development - Vandana shiva : the violence of development and reductionist science -- Further issues in the development/globalization debates -- Reclaiming the commons : the positive visions of development critics -- Catholic social teaching, the radical tradition, and development critics -- Grassroots action and policy alternatives -- Grassroots organizations in the third world : an overview -- The impact of grassroots organizations -- Development policies : follow the NIC model? …”
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Climate change in the global workplace : labour, adaptation and resistance /

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Analyzing spatial models of choice and judgment / by Armstrong, David A., II, 1976-

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Inheritance in Contemporary America The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? -- The political economy of giving and receiving -- The legacy of the modern welfare state -- The dilemma -- Employer pension versus personal savings -- Cross-national research -- Dimensions of giving between generations -- The joy of giving -- Theoretical perspectives on money: good versus evil? …”
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Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge /

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When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / by Alexander Craft, Renee

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Change Management in TVET Colleges : Lessons Learnt from the Field of Practice /

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Contagion and Enclaves : Tropical Medicine in Colonial India / by Bhattacharya, Nandini

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Feminist political ecology and the economics of care : in search of economic alternatives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: conversations on care in feminist political economy and ecology / Wendy Harcourt and Christine Bauhardt -- Nature, care, and gender : feminist dilemmas / Christine Bauhardt -- White settler colonial scientific fabulations on otherwise narratives of care / Wendy Harcourt -- Environmental feminisms : a story of different encounters / Karijn van den Berg -- Climate change, natural disasters and the spillover effects on unpaid care : the case of super-typhoon Haiyan / Maria S. …”
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Animals, food and tourism /

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Inheritance in Contemporary America : The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? -- The political economy of giving and receiving -- The legacy of the modern welfare state -- The dilemma -- Employer pension versus personal savings -- Cross-national research -- Dimensions of giving between generations -- The joy of giving -- Theoretical perspectives on money: good versus evil? …”
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The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy / by Swanson, Judith A. (Judith Ann), 1957-

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Inheritance in contemporary America : the social dimensions of giving across generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? -- The political economy of giving and receiving -- The legacy of the modern welfare state -- The dilemma -- Employer pension versus personal savings -- Cross-national research -- Dimensions of giving between generations -- The joy of giving -- Theoretical perspectives on money: good versus evil? …”
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Common Sense in Environmental Management Thinking Through English Land and Water. by Woolley, Jonathan P., 1988-

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Global health and global health ethics

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Africa's power infrastructure investment, integration, efficiency /

Table of Contents: “…-- Meeting the challenges of regional integration of infrastructure -- Building a political consensus -- Strengthening regional institutions -- Setting priorities for regional infrastructure -- Facilitating project preparation and cross-border finance -- Developing regional regulatory frameworks -- Investment requirements -- Modeling investment needs -- Estimating supply needs -- Overall cost requirements -- The sapp -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- The EAPP/Nile Basin -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 35 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- WAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target rate : electricity access of 54 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- CAPP -- Constant access rates under trade expansion -- Regional target for access rate : electricity access of 44 percent on average -- National targets for electricity access -- Strengthening sector reform and planning -- Power sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa -- Private management contracts : winning the battle, losing the war -- Sector reform, sector performance -- The search for effective hybrid markets -- Regulatory institutions may need to be redesigned -- The challenges of independent regulation -- Regulation by contract -- Outsourcing regulatory functions -- Toward better regulatory systems -- A model to fit the context -- Widening connectivity and reducing inequality -- Low electricity connection rates -- Mixed progress, despite many agencies and funds -- Inequitable access to electricity -- Affordability of electricity : subsidizing the well off -- Policy challenges for accelerating service expansion -- Don't forget the demand side of the equation -- Take a hard-headed look at affordability -- Target subsidies to promote service expansion -- Systematic planning needed for periurban and rural electrification -- Recommitting to the reform of state-owned enterprises -- Hidden costs in underperforming state-owned enterprises -- Driving down operational inefficiencies and hidden costs -- Effect of better governance on performance of state-owned utilities -- Making state-owned enterprises more effective -- Defined roles and responsibilities -- Altering the political economy around the utility -- Practical tools for improving the performance of state-owned utilities -- Closing Africa's power funding gap -- Existing spending in the power sector -- How much more can be done within the existing resource envelope? …”
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Social justice and Islamic economics : theory, issues and practice /

Table of Contents: “…The "invisible hand" of khilafah: real contractual freedom, social justice and open issues of political economy…”
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Contemporary Thought on Nineteenth Century Socialism by Morgan, Kevin, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…, The Syndicalist, May 1912. -- Part 3 Political economy -- 15 "The Iron Law of Wages", Justice, 15 March 1884, 3. -- 16 Socialism and Slavery (1884), Social Democratic Federation (London: Twentieth Century Press, 1899 edn), 3-15. -- 17 Useful Work Versus Useless Toil (1885), Hammersmith Socialist Society, 1893 edn, 3-12, 19. -- 18 "The Reward of 'Genius'", Commonweal, 25 September 1886, 205-206.…”
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Automation, innovation and work : the impact of technological, economic, and social singularity / by Johannessen, Jon-Arild

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Selected letters of Vernon Lee 1856-1935.

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