Trading in Uncertainty

Trading in Uncertainty
Author: Esther Horat
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-07-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319556487

This book is an ethnographic case study, based on first hand observation, of family businesses in the northern Vietnamese village of Ninh Hiệp along the Red River Delta, which became a major hub for textiles in the wake of the country’s shift towards market socialism. The author explores how the traders experience, negotiate and react to a marketization process that is markedly shaped by the state’s morally ambivalent governance, and which can be thus characterised as an admixture of socialist and neoliberal ideologies. How are traders shaping the political economy of Vietnam? How has the labour force changed as textile-handling has become an increasingly profitable undertaking? Horat explores the relationships between traders and local authorities, as well as changing ideas of masculinity and femininity. Focusing on the redevelopment of the market landscape and the increasing share of private ownership that have given rise to great uncertainty, this book provides a we ll-timed inquiry into current debates of economic development in a uniquely shaped market environment.

Why Communism Did Not Collapse

Why Communism Did Not Collapse
Author: Martin K. Dimitrov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2013-07-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107035538

Addresses the durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I.

The Teahouse Under Socialism

The Teahouse Under Socialism
Author: Di Wang
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501715550

This text explores urban public life through the microcosm of the Chengdu teahouse. Like most public spaces, the teahouse was and still is an enduring symbol of Chinese popular culture, stemming back centuries and prevailing through political transformations, modernization, and globalization. The time period covered begins basically with the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949-50, goes through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era.

Reaching for the Dream

Reaching for the Dream
Author: Melanie Beresford
Publisher: NIAS Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788791114489

Transition economies allow the study of fundamental questions about the nature of markets. How do they arise and do they necessarily follow the same modus operandi as markets in other countries? How does the opening of the economy to global market influences affect the process of institutional change? And how in the context of an underdeveloped transitional economy like Vietnam, do such influences affect the prospects for sustainable and equitable development? This book focuses on the differentiated ways in which the double transition in Vietnam, from central planning and from under-development, affects various sectors of the population.

Traders in Motion

Traders in Motion
Author: Kirsten W. Endres
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1501721348

Markets and traders in Vietnam are on the move, literally and figuratively. The chapters in this volume offer rich ethnographic exploration of daily interactions among small-scale traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials within contemporary Vietnam and across its borders.

The Power of Everyday Politics

The Power of Everyday Politics
Author: Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501722018

Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to the villagers who effected change. Not through open opposition but through their everyday political behavior, villagers individually and in small, unorganized groups undermined collective farming and frustrated authorities' efforts to correct the problems.The Power of Everyday Politics is an authoritative account, based on extensive research in Vietnam's National Archives and in the Red River Delta countryside, of the formation of collective farms in northern Vietnam in the late 1950s, their enlargement during wartime in the 1960s and 1970s, and their collapse in the 1980s. As Kerkvliet shows, the Vietnamese government eventually terminated the system, but not for ideological reasons. Rather, collectivization had become hopelessly compromised and was ultimately destroyed largely by the activities of villagers. Decollectivization began locally among villagers themselves; national policy merely followed. The power of everyday politics is not unique to Vietnam, Kerkvliet asserts. He advances a theory explaining how everyday activities that do not conform to the behavior required by authorities may carry considerable political weight.

Market Frictions

Market Frictions
Author: Kirsten W. Endres
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789202450

Based on ethnographic research conducted over several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from the interaction of global market forces, urban planning policies, and small-scale trading activities in the Vietnamese border city of Lào Cai. Here, it is revealed how small-scale traders and market vendors experience the marketplace, reflect upon their trading activities, and negotiate current state policies and regulations. It shows how “traditional” Vietnamese marketplaces have continually been reshaped and adapted to meet the changing political-economic circumstances and civilizational ideals of the time.

Public Policy and Agricultural Development

Public Policy and Agricultural Development
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-06-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136635297

This book critically re-examines a wide range of policy issues in agriculture, including land, knowledge, credit and physical inputs policy, presenting six detailed case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia with a detailed synthesis from the editor, Ha-Joon Chang.