The Struggle For Development And Democracy A General Theory

Author : Alessandro Olsaretti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004543511
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Development and Democracy: A General Theory written by Alessandro Olsaretti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Struggle for Development and Democracy Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need significantly new theories of development and democracy to answer the problem posed by neoliberalism and the populist backlash, namely, uneven development and divisive politics heightened by the 9/11 attacks. This volume proposes a general theory of development and democracy, as part of a unified theory of power, emphasizing that development needs markets, civil society, and the state, and also the proper networks and interactions amongst markets, civil society, and the state. Imperialism undermines these interactions, and turns countries into providers of cheap land or labour. This book begins to sketch the mechanisms at work, and to answer one question: how did imperialist elites build their power? All royalties from sales of this volume will go to GiveWell.org in honour of Alessandro Olsaretti's memory.

Author : Alessandro Olsaretti
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Development and Democracy written by Alessandro Olsaretti and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did imperialist elites build their power? The Struggle for Development and Democracy begins to answer this pressing question. In this rousing study, Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need significantly new theories of development and democracy to answer the problem posed by neoliberalism and the populist backlash, namely, uneven development and divisive politics heightened by the 9/11 attacks. This volume proposes a general theory of development and democracy, as part of a unified theory of power, emphasizing that development needs markets, civil society, and the state, and also the proper networks and interactions amongst markets, civil society, and the state. Imperialism undermines these interactions, and turns countries into providers of cheap land or labour. This book begins to sketch the mechanisms at work that facilitate this process.

Author : Alessandro Olsaretti
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004470522
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Development and Democracy written by Alessandro Olsaretti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Struggle for Development and Democracy Alessandro Olsaretti proposes a humanist social science as a first step to overcome the flaws of neoliberalism, and to recover a balanced approach that is needed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Author : Sung-Hee Jwa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785367994
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Theory of Economic Development written by Sung-Hee Jwa and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the bold attempt at proposing a new general theory of economic development. The main premise is that economic institutions and policies must embody ‘economic discrimination’ if there is to be any chance of real economic development. By economic discrimination, the author means ‘treating differences differently’ by selecting and supporting economic entities and behaviour that contribute positively to the economy. The book identifies markets, government and corporations as the ‘holy trinity of economic development’, that is, the three most important institutions that must work together via economic discrimination to steer the economy towards real transformative progress. The book also warns against the current trend of economic egalitarianism or ‘not treating differences differently’ because it destroys economic incentives and results in an array of economic problems including growth stagnation.

Author : Shadrack W. Nasong'o
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848137168
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kenya written by Shadrack W. Nasong'o and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The path towards democracy in Kenya has been long and often tortuous. Though it has been trumpeted as a goal for decades, democratic government has never been fully realised, largely as a result of the authoritarian excesses of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki regimes. This uniquely comprehensive study of Kenya's political trajectory shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. It also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies. Thus, the authors argue, democratisation in Kenya is a laborious and non-linear process. Kenyans' recent electoral successes, the book concludes, have empowered them and reinvigorated the prospects for democracy, heralding a more autonomous and peaceful twenty-first century.

Author : Adrian Leftwich
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780745612669
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Development written by Adrian Leftwich and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is democracy a necessary condition for economic development or is it an outcome of it? This central question is addressed in chapters specially commissioned for this book.

Author : Andreas Fulda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138328341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong written by Andreas Fulda and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question at the heart of this book is to what extent have political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. The book compares and contrasts the political development in the three regions from the early 1970s.

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Download or read book Democracy and development written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daron Acemoglu
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0735224382
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Narrow Corridor written by Daron Acemoglu and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.

Author : Axel Honneth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745680062
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Right written by Axel Honneth and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms “democratic ethical life”: a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.