The New Bourgeoisie and the Limits of Dependency

The New Bourgeoisie and the Limits of Dependency
Author: David G. Becker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400853230

The author clarifies the mutually constructive relationship between transnational and the modernizing Peruvian state, showing how the state maintains this relationship while simultaneously nurturing the new class. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism

Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism
Author: León Rozitchner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004471588

Offering an in-depth interpretation of Sigmund Freud’s so-called “collective” or “social” works, León Rozitchner shows how the Left should consider the ways in which capitalism inscribes its power in the subject as the site for the verification of history.

The Limits of State Autonomy

The Limits of State Autonomy
Author: Nora Hamilton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1400855330

In a historical treatment of Mexico beginning with the pre-Revolutionary period and focusing on the administration of Lazaro Cardenas (1934-1940), Nora Hamilton explores the possibilities and limits of reform in a capitalist society. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Sub-Imperalism Revisited

Sub-Imperalism Revisited
Author: Adrián Sotelo Valencia
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004319417

Does the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean that dependency theory of the 1960s was all wrong? The answer to this and many other enigmas of development is found in Sub-Imperialism Revisited, a theoretically rigorous study by the brilliant Mexican analyst Adrián Sotelo Valencia. In analysing the 21st Century conditions of Latin America, Sotelo systematically explores the concept of "sub-imperialism" as advanced in the pioneering work of Ruy Mauro Marini. Himself a former student of Marini, Sotelo elucidates the explanatory power of a fully Marxist conception of imperialism and underdevelopment while providing considerable insight into opposing conceptions of dependency. This timely book ultimately enables readers to appreciate why radical dependency theory remains more relevant today than ever.

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation
Author: Jeff Seward
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317269543

The Politics of Capitalist Transformation is the only book-length study of the highly protectionist Brazilian informatics policy from its origins in the early 1970s to the collapse of the market reserve in the early 1990s and its impact in subsequent decades. Jeff Seward provides a sophisticated political analysis of how state activists constructed high levels of state autonomy to try to shift Brazil to a new variety of capitalism by eclipsing the multinational companies (especially IBM) that dominated the Brazilian computer sector and replacing them with local companies with 100 percent Brazilian technology and ownership. This ambitious policy required repeated shifts of political strategy and policymaking institutions to respond to a constantly changing economic and political environment as Brazil made a dramatic transition from military dictatorship to democracy. The innovative framework to analyze state autonomy and the sophisticated political analysis of the policymaking process will be of interest to scholars and students of Brazilian and Latin American political economy, varieties of capitalism theory, state theory, democratic transition theory, and high technology policymaking in developing countries.

State and Class in Africa

State and Class in Africa
Author: Nelson Kasfir
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317792076

This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics.

Human Rights Trade-Offs in Times of Economic Growth

Human Rights Trade-Offs in Times of Economic Growth
Author: Areli Valencia
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137488689

This book uncovers a historical dependency on smelting activities that has trapped inhabitants of La Oroya, Peru, in a context of systemic lack of freedom. La Oroya has been named one of the most polluted places on the planet by the US Blacksmith Institute. Residents face the dilemma of whether to defend their health or to preserve job stability at the local smelter, the main source of toxic pollution in town. Valencia unpacks this paradoxical human rights trade-off. This context, shaped by social, historical, political, and economic factors, increases people’s vulnerabilities and decreases their ability to choose, resulting in residents' trading off their right to health in order to work. This book shows the deep connection of this local dilemma to the country’s national paradox, arising out of Peru's vision of natural resource extraction as the main path to secure economic growth for the entire country at the expense of some groups.

How Latin America Fell Behind

How Latin America Fell Behind
Author: Stephen H. Haber
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780804727389

In 1800, the per capita income of the United States was twice that of Mexico and roughly the same as Brazil's. By 1913, it was four times greater than Mexico's and seven times greater than Brazil's. This volume seeks to explain the nineteenth-century lag in Latin American economic development. Breaking with the longstanding dependency tradition in Latin American historiography, the contributors argue that the slowdown had far more to do with internal political and legal structures than foreign influences. Topics covered include the performance of Mexico and Brazil, the impact of independence, capital markets, regional growth, the impact of railroads, and the economic effects of 'culture'. The editor's introductory essay surveys the history of economic growth theories and Latin American economic historiography. -- Publisher's description.

Pollution and the Struggle for the World Product

Pollution and the Struggle for the World Product
Author: H. Jeffrey Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521027640

Since the early 1970s, observers have noted that complying with environmental regulations might be a significant new factor in determining the locations of industries involved in world trade. Two related hypotheses have been offered to explain how environmental regulations are altering international comparative advantage in industrial production: first, that stringent regulations push industries out of the United States and other advanced industrial nations; second, that less developed countries compete to attract multinational industries by minimizing their own regulations.