This paper, the second in the series, initiates the examination of the nature of the relationship between private capital and the State in India. While the principal focus is on the present context of India under a liberal economic policy regime, both the past of Indian capitalism and the past...

The paper presents the outlines of a coherent, structural, long term account of the socio-economic and political evolution of the Arab republics that can explain both the persistence of autocracy until 2011, and the its eventual collapse, in a way that is empirically verifiable. I argue that the...

En este escrito se estudia la implicación de condiciones suficientesy/o necesarias en un cambio estructural, comparando el proceso deindustrialización de Corea del Sur con el de Colombia. Se analizandos períodos: 1960-1990 y 1991-2007, antes y después de la apertura en ambos países. Se...

The Tunisian revolution has economic and social causes. It was carried out against exclusion and crony capitalism. We thus show that it can be apprehended by a political economy approach, which is apt to explain the collapse of authoritarianism. The latter was able to remain in place thanks to...

This paper seeks to reduce the ambiguity surrounding our understanding of what crony capitalism is, what it is not, what costs crony capitalism leaves in its wake, and how we might contain it.

In mid-December 2011 it was announced that the accession of the Russian Federation to the WTO had been agreed. The accession negotiations had taken 18 years. Russia is the last major economy whose international trade is not governed by WTO disciplines, and with its accession 97 percent of global...

Amid Lebanon's multifaceted economic crisis, this paper explores the intricate dynamics between political patronage networks and financial stability. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of New Institutional Economics (NIE) and Project Management (PM), the study delves into how entrenched...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to trace the relationship between social media and socialism. Design/methodology/approach – The design of this paper is to articulate what is socialism and social media. We trace the relationship between the two based on quotations and citations between...

The representation of the economic system, from a complexity perspective, focuses on interactions among heterogeneous agents in conditions of uncertainty. Heterogeneity entails asymmetric reactions to shocks and, through interaction mechanisms and feedback loops at micro, macro and meso level,...