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Within the context of the New Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi is almost universally considered the “father” of the concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its relationship to the remaining theoretical edifice...
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implications are (b) the emergence of a new social formation that may be called World Market Capitalism, which has a vastly …
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The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
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gets accumulated and the specific historical trajectory of twentieth-century capitalism up to the present. …
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This chapter reviews the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty, drawing on the collected works of …, Globalization and Poverty. We focus on two measures of global¬ization: trade integration (measured using tariffs or trade flows … globalization to poverty reduction via the growth effects of trade reforms is likely to be important. …
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Seen in historical perspective the main economic predicaments of the present world (such as poverty, inequality …
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some channels of globalization on poverty (and inequality), formal institutions have the capacity to device policies that …Are formal institutions instrumental in the effect globalization mechanisms have on the human face? If so, through … which freedoms channels are poverty and inequality mitigated? With the instrumentality of formal institutions: (1) de jure …
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This article deals with the role and the place of the money in the process of coordination in a decentralized market economy. The equilibrium models assume that the coordination is carried out through market mechanisms. These mechanisms are mainly real and individual mechanisms but they seem to...
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The Chinese economy does still not qualify as demand-driven economy. Its growth is based on investment. In fact successive waves of investment have emerged during the eighties and produced a piling-up of productive systems. A wave of small national enterprises and entrepreneurs, a second large...
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