A Colonial Economy In Crisis

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134403380
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Colonial Economy in Crisis written by Ian Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects of the depression were complicated, varying between regions, between different kinds of economic actors, and over time, and shows how the 'victims' of the depression were not passive, working imaginatively to mitigate their circumstances.

Author : Aaron G. Jakes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503612627
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egypt's Occupation written by Aaron G. Jakes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.

Author : Mark Beissinger
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 : 9781930365087
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond State Crisis? written by Mark Beissinger and published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2002-01-24 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.

Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : James Currey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya written by Bruce Berman and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1990 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alemayehu Geda
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527528278
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Origin of the African Economic Crisis written by Alemayehu Geda and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the answers to various major questions on African development related to international trade and finance. It explores the economic interaction between Africa and the now-developed countries (the West) in the past and China today, as well as the legacy of these interactions for Africa’s growth and poverty reduction effort today. In addition, it discusses the implication of this legacy for Africa’s future development, and considers whether lessons can be drawn from this experience in terms of the continent’s future development? By providing in-depth historical and economic analysis conducted in non-technical terms, the book represents a valuable resource for policy makers, researchers, and students, as well as international organizations that focus on African development.

Author : K. A. Manikumar
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125024569
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Colonial Economy in the Great Depression, Madras (1929-1937) written by K. A. Manikumar and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to give a complete description of the impact of the Great Depression on the Madras Presidency, by using the techniques of both a historian and an economist. Manikumar's multidisciplinary approach provides a fresh perspective on the political, economic and social conditions of the Presidency in the 1930s. The major areas covered are: Madras's economy before the Depression, particularly the state of the export-dependant agricultural sector; the rise of indebtedness among the peasants; the varied effects on industrial sectors; the economic policies of the colonial government, which worsened the degree of debt; and the social and political effects of the Depression, including the Indian National Congress's increased political influence.

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134403372
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Colonial Economy in Crisis written by Ian Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects of the depression were complicated, varying between regions, between different kinds of economic actors, and over time, and shows how the 'victims' of the depression were not passive, working imaginatively to mitigate their circumstances.

Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307719227
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Nations Fail written by Daron Acemoglu and published by Currency. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.

Author : Raymond D. Crotty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland in Crisis written by Raymond D. Crotty and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaime E. Rodríguez O.
Publisher : Chicano Studies Research Center Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down from Colonialism written by Jaime E. Rodríguez O. and published by Chicano Studies Research Center Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: