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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results
Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111073
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Civilizing capitalism: “good” and “bad” greed from the enlightenment to Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
Reinert, Erik S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
"As we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260377
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The anti-materialist project of "The Bourgeois Era"
McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
capitalism. One is already published (The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce 2006), and this is volume 2. Volume 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528732
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Partisanship at the Origins of Modern Capitalist Institutions
Carney, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Analyses that gauge the relationship of partisanship to economic outcomes nearly always focus on the level of partisanship, and changes to it, at a time concurrent to the outcomes. However, partisanship at the time an institution was established may correspond more strongly to modern economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786923
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International economic theory and politics: world structure before, during and after the early 21st Century Crisis
Naqvi, Nadeem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
implications are (b) the emergence of a new social formation that may be called World Market Capitalism, which has a vastly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596380
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194754
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187326
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Does colonialism have an impact on the current language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Buzasi, Katalin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Recent studies show that colonization and ethnolinguistic fragmentation have relevant long-lasting impacts on ex-colonies and might explain development and underdevelopment of different parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to connect these two strands of the literature to some extent by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260564