Part I. What Went Wrong with Modern Economic Science? -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Encounter of the Fifth Kind with an Alien Science -- Chapter 2. Is Economics a Science? -- Chapter 3. About Economists and Theologians -- Chapter 4. Taking a Phenomenological Approach to Oikonomics: Looking at the...

1. Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India -- 2. Myth of Modernization and Development in Orissa -- 3. Interrogating Social Capital and Denials of Development in the Planning for Tribal Development in India -- 4. Capitalism and...

This book features an in-depth comparative study of South American National Development Bank’s governance systems. It explores the relationship between bank governance and performance frameworks, both in terms of financial-economic indicators and development impact. It seeks to observe,...

All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo...