During the first two-thirds of the 20th century the themes of sectorial structure and compared performance prevail in Italian economic historiography. In contrast, in the last part of the century attention is focused on the behavior of single economic actors and their micro-economic strategies....

1: Introduction and Rethinking Contract Farming -- 2: Punjab: An Interesting place to study Agrarian Change -- 3: Understanding the Social Relations of Contract Farming -- 4: Stating the (not so) obvious: The ‘Interventionist Neoliberal State’ in India -- 5: Understanding CF: CF as a...

Since 1945, the liberal-democratic model of capitalism spread across the globe, ultimately prevailing over communism. Over the past two decades, a new statist-authoritarian model has begun diffusing across East Asia. Rather than rejecting capitalism, authoritarian leaders harness it to uphold...