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Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa and it connects these to Marx's persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism.

From one of Washington's most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability.Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey, one of Washington's most influential economic voices, insists nothin...

Diese Arbeit thematisiert die wettbewerbsrechtliche Einordnung von Menschenrechtsverletzungen bei der auslandischen Warenproduktion. Der Grundgedanke befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Vertrieb von Waren, die unter dem Einsatz von menschenverachtenden Formen der Kinderarbeit gefertigt wurden, als ein lauteres geschaftliches Verhalten i.S. des UWG angesehen werden kann. Dazu werden die Corporate Social Responsibility Publikationen als Werbeform einer lauterkeitsrechtlichen UEberprufung unt...

Jazz aus OEsterreich? Wurde dieser Aussage noch vor einigen Jahren mit grosser Skepsis entgegnet, so verfugt Wien heute uber eine der vitalsten, innovativsten und vielfaltigsten Jazzszenen Europas. Dieses Buch befasst sich erstmals mit soziologischen und oekonomischen Rahmenbedingungen der Wiener Jazzszene und erhellt bisher unbeachtete Aspekte der Arbeits- und Produktionsbedingungen von Jazzmusikern in Wien. Auch die oeffentliche Foerdersituation und ihre Folgen fur den Jazz in Wien werden unte...

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readj...

This study evaluates the relationship between popular art forms, the Amistad Revolt of 1839 and cultural movements, asserting that the Amistad case created a major shift in northern US attitudes toward slavery and played a key role in the construction of national identity in Sierra Leone.

The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let the market go its own way in order to create as much welfare as possible for everyone? What is the responsibility of the government in creating welfare? These are difficult questions. But they are also interesting questions and Paul De Grauwe analyses them in this book. The desired mix of market and s...

In this book, first published in 1890, the author endeavours to determine whether protectionism or free trade better accords with the interests of labour - particularly with regards to the raising of wages. He analyses the popularity of protection in the face of the evidence of its fallacies, and examines the principle of free trade and its consequences.

A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches to issues of economic and other disparities Discrimination and Disparities challenges believers in such one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation or genetics. It is readable enough for people with no prior knowledge of economics. Yet the empirical evidence with which it backs up its analysis spans the globe and challenges beliefs across the ideologica...

Unternehmenskrisen bei kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) des deutschen Maschinen- und Anlagenbaus lassen sich zu etwa einem Funftel direkt auf eine mangelnde innerbetriebliche Kapazitatsauslastung und damit auf UEberkapazitaten zuruckfuhren. Vor diesem Hintergrund greift der Autor drei betriebswirtschaftliche Themenbereiche auf, die sowohl in der aktuellen wissenschaftlichen als auch der praktischen Diskussion stehen: Mass Customization, unternehmensubergreifende Produktionsplanung und -st...

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, solve Adam Smith's puzzle of the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and of the moral sentiments of modernity. The world got rich, she argues, not chiefly by material causes but by an idea and a sentiment, a new admir...

Professor Weeks proposes that the key to Marx's critique of capitalist society is the labor theory of value. A commodity-producing society, he argues, necessarily gives rise to a capitalist society, so that commodity production and the exploitation of labor are inseparably linked. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Pres...

This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx, it provides a systematic and fundamental cultural critique of political economy and critically describes the nature of the mainstream understanding of economics. Blaney and Inayatullah construct a powerful argument about how political economy a...