Book Description
This volume's central proposition is that the impact of external economic pressures is to a large degree domestically determined, varying in important measure according to the robustness or weakness of national institutions.
Author : Linda Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 1998
Category : East Asia
ISBN : 9780801485435
This volume's central proposition is that the impact of external economic pressures is to a large degree domestically determined, varying in important measure according to the robustness or weakness of national institutions.
Author : Linda Weiss
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : East Asia
ISBN :
Author : Linda Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501711733
Conventional wisdom argues that the integration of the world economy is making national governments less powerful, but Linda Weiss disagrees. In an era when global society and the transnational market are trendy concepts, she suggests that state capacities for domestic transformative strategies provide a competitive advantage. Some of the most successful economies rely on state-informed and state-embedded institutions for governing the economy. In fact, she contends, the strength of external economic pressures is largely determined domestically, and the effect of such pressures varies with the strength of domestic institutions. Weiss analyzes the sources and varieties of state capacity for governing industrial transformation in contemporary cases: the unraveling of Sweden's distributive model of adjustment, the evolution of developmental states in Northeast Asia, and the parallel strengths of the German and Japanese systems of industrial coordination. Her comparative perspective allows her to show how different types of state capacity affect industrial vitality and domestic adjustment to global forces. As economic integration proceeds, she concludes, state capabilities will matter more rather than less in fostering social well-being and the creation of wealth.
Author : C. Kyung-Sup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137028300
Blending theory and case studies, this volume explores a vitally important and topical aspect of developmentalism, which remains a focal point for scholarly and policy debates around democracy and social development in the global political economy. Includes case studies from China, Vietnam, India, Brazil, Uganda, South Korea, Ireland, Australia.
Author : Linda Weiss
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2014-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801471125
For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. In America Inc.? she examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era. Weiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980s. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation.
Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307827828
One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide; the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly posits a way out of despair, reaffirming the value of personal existence, and the possibility of life lived with dignity and authenticity.
Author : Richard Lachmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745659012
States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia. Richard Lachmann traces the contested and historically contingent struggles by which subjects began to see themselves as citizens of nations and came to associate their interests and identities with states, and explains why the civil rights and benefits they achieved, and the taxes and military service they in turn rendered to their nations, varied so much. Looking forward, Lachmann examines the future in store for states: will they gain or lose strength as they are buffeted by globalization, terrorism, economic crisis and environmental disaster? This stimulating book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the social science literature that addresses these issues and situates the state at the center of the world history of capitalism, nationalism and democracy. It will be essential reading for scholars and students across the social and political sciences.
Author : Vaclav Havel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315487357
Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.
Author : Linda M. Weiss
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781741145854
Three of Australia's top policy analysts have investigated the fine print in the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement and reveal how the Agreement is anything but Free. With new information from inside sources, they tell of the behind-the-scenes negotiations, and how Australia's long-term prosperity has been dangerously undermined.
Author : Ernst Cassirer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1950
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