Commerce As Politics

Author : Gregory M. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489400
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke's Political Economy written by Gregory M. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Edmund Burke's economic thought through his understanding of commerce in wider social, imperial, and ethical contexts.

Author : Sean M. Maliehe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178920982X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commerce as Politics written by Sean M. Maliehe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive economic history of the Basotho people of Southern Africa (in colonial Basutoland, then Lesotho) and spans from the 1820s to the present day. The book documents what the Basotho have done on their own account, focusing on their systematic exclusion from trade and their political efforts to insert themselves into their country’s commerce. Although the colonial and post-colonial periods were unfavourable to the Basotho, they have, before and after colonial rule, launched impressive commercial initiatives of their own, which bring hope for greater development and freedom in their struggle for economic independence.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525432884
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Systems of Survival written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life. In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice. In this work of profound insight and elegance, Jacobs gives us a new way of seeing all our public transactions and encourages us towards the best use of our natural inclinations.

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892261
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India 1500-1650 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between long-distance trade and the economic and political structure of southern India.

Author : Ronald Rogowski
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691023301
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commerce and Coalitions written by Ronald Rogowski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.

Author : Michael J. Hiscox
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691214867
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Trade and Political Conflict written by Michael J. Hiscox and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unveils a potent new approach to one of the oldest debates in political economy--that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It goes further than any study to date by outlining the conditions under which one type of political conflict is more likely than the other. Michael Hiscox focuses on a critical issue affecting support for and opposition to free trade--factor mobility, or the ability of those who own a factor of production (land, labor, or capital) to move it from one industry to another. He argues that the types of political coalitions that form in trade politics depend largely on the extent to which factors are mobile between industries. Class coalitions are more likely where factor mobility is high, Hiscox demonstrates, whereas narrow, industry-based coalitions predominate where it is low. The book also breaks new ground by backing up the theory it advances with systematic evidence from the history of trade politics in six nations over the last two centuries, using a combination of case studies and quantitative analysis. It makes fresh conclusions about the forces shaping trade policy outcomes--conclusions that yield surprising insights into the likely evolution of the global trading system and U.S. trade policy in particular. International Trade and Political Conflict is a major contribution to the scholarly literature while being accessible to anyone interested in understanding and predicting developments in trade policy.

Author : Sikko Visscher
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693657
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Politics and Ethnicity written by Sikko Visscher and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with businesses in the region. Some of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in Singapore and Malaysia have served as leaders of the Chamber. Drawing on archival materials and extensive interviews, Visscher provides lively biographical sketches that highlight the circumstances and personal values that propelled these and other leading Chinese businessmen to success and to prominence. He also examines Chinese business practices, considering cultural elements as well as state and market forces, and highlights unique features of the Chinese experience in Singapore. By viewing Singapore from the perspective of a well established non-governmental organisation as it struggled, negotiated and cooperated with the state, this book offers an alternative to conventional political histories.

Author : Istvan Hont
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286197
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Commercial Society written by Istvan Hont and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar perspectives. In making his case, Hont begins with the concept of commercial society and explains why that concept has much in common with what the German philosopher Immanuel Kant called unsocial sociability. This is why many earlier scholars used to refer to an Adam Smith Problem and, in a somewhat different way, to a Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem. The two problems—and the questions about the relationship between individualism and altruism that they raised—were, in fact, more similar than has usually been thought because both arose from the more fundamental problems generated by thinking about morality and politics in a commercial society. Commerce entails reciprocity, but a commercial society also entails involuntary social interdependence, relentless economic competition, and intermittent interstate rivalry. This was the world to which Rousseau and Smith belonged, and Politics in Commercial Society is an account of how they thought about it. Building his argument on the similarity between Smith’s and Rousseau’s theoretical concerns, Hont shows the relevance of commercial society to modern politics—the politics of the nation-state, global commerce, international competition, social inequality, and democratic accountability.

Author : Thomas Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elements of Commerce, Politics, and Finance written by Thomas Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rupali Mishra Mishra
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984714
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Business of State written by Rupali Mishra Mishra and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world’s trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company’s beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra’s account of the East India Company’s formative years sheds new light on one of the most powerful corporations in the history of the world. From its birth in 1600, the East India Company lay at the heart of English political and economic life. The Company’s fortunes were determined by the leading figures of the Stuart era, from the monarch and his privy counselors to an extended cast of eminent courtiers and powerful merchants. Drawing on a host of overlooked and underutilized sources, Mishra reconstructs the inner life of the Company, laying bare the era’s fierce struggles to define the difference between public and private interests and the use and abuse of power. Unlike traditional accounts, which portray the Company as a private entity that came to assume the powers of a state, Mishra’s history makes clear that, from its inception, the East India Company was embedded within—and inseparable from—the state. A Business of State illuminates how the East India Company quickly came to inhabit such a unique role in England’s commercial and political ambitions. It also offers critical insights into the rise of the early modern English state and the expansion and development of its nascent empire.