Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists of the nineteenth century developed and articulated a distinct tradition of economic thought. The period of this study begins with the first major writing of the French communitarian anarchist, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, in 1840 and ends with the temporary burial of anarchist theorizing at the beginning...
Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and whi...
This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world.
This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics ...
This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism." Additionally, she contends that in those instances of rupture where local economic practices break into dominant narratives of the economy, we catch a glimpse of what James Scott has referred to as the "hidden transcripts" of alternative epistemologies. Chowdhury argues that the normative content of...
This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unear...
This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of Corrections, and this enslavement is used to extract surplus labor from the inmates, for which no compensation is provided. Other authors have claimed that prison labor is slavery, but no previous study has made a rigorous argument based on a systematic analysis of the flows of surplus labor which...
This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that ...
Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries.
Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question o...
Many economists celebrate markets as institutions promoting efficiency and supporting freedom and liberty; others condemn them for generating economic inequality and social disharmony. Exchanging Entailments offers a critical evaluation of both perspectives and outlines a new economics of markets and society. This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx and demonstrates what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the central social...
Many economists celebrate markets as institutions promoting efficiency and supporting freedom and liberty; others condemn them for generating econo...
Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new institutional economics approach, this book explores the history of economic activity through the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods, including the transformative period of British rule. During the colonial period, Asians were brought in to build the railways and subsequently focused...
Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutio...
This book investigates the new mode of global economics governance. Vestergaard argues that only by abandoning certain 'laissez fairy tales' about liberalism, may we begin to understand our present condition, and open a space for critical thought in face of an ever-more pervasive neoliberalism.
This book investigates the new mode of global economics governance. Vestergaard argues that only by abandoning certain 'laissez fairy tales' about lib...
