Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Heroic Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Soul of Commerce: Adam Smith -- Character and Success: Samuel Smiles -- Supply-Side Ethics: Ayn Rand -- Part II Business Opportunity, Political Opportunism -- Introduction -- Business Opportunity --...

Over the past four decades many European welfare states have seen an increasing involvement of the commercial sector in their mixed economies of welfare. One aspect of this development that has yet to be fully understood in social policy analysis is the engagement of businesses to address social...

Between Politics and Markets examines how the decline of central planning in post-Mao China was related to the rise of two markets - an economic market for the exchange of products and factors, and a political market for the diversion to private interests of state assets and authorities

In the first systematic study of its kind, Hua-yu Li explains why, in 1953, Mao suddenly changed direction in economic policy and launched China on a Stalinist road to socialism. In so doing, he profoundly changed the country's economic and political landscape. Including rich archival materials...

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This book is a novel and innovative contribution to the history of Swedish social democracy and gives a critical perspective on the change of the Swedish welfare state, from the post war notion of a Strong society, to the Third Way in the early 1980s.