Political Economy And Freedom

Author : Jaw-Nian Huang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429939341

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The Political Economy of Press Freedom by Jaw-Nian Huang Pdf

This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media. It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why significant improvements accompanied Taiwan’s close economic connections with the US during the Cold War, only to become eroded as the country developed deeper economic ties with China in the 21st century. Presenting both a domestic and international perspective, this study of the controversial case of Taiwan ultimately argues in favor of three factors. First, state power is not the only threat to press freedom, as corporate organizations and market forces may also play a role in curtailing it. Second, cross-national economic connections do not always improve human and civil rights but may cause damage when they involve more powerful authoritarian countries. Third, just as norms diffuse from liberal contexts to repressive states, repressive norms are also likely to diffuse from powerful authoritarian countries to more liberal but politically and economically weaker ones. Providing a new viewpoint on China’s media control overseas, The Political Economy of Press Freedom will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as comparative politics, international relations and Media Studies.

Author : David P. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521447917

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Wealth and Freedom by David P. Levine Pdf

Modern life places a special emphasis on private affairs. Social institutions, and especially our economies, have been organized to facilitate the pursuit of private interests. At the center of this private world is a system of private property which, more than anything, satisfies our wants. Political economy studies the properties of this private world: How does it work, and how well does it satisfy our wants? What are the limits of the world of private affairs? Wealth and Freedom provides an introduction to political economy for the student or other interested nonspecialist. The book explores such key issues as the place of our economy in the larger social system, the importance of market institutions for individual autonomy, private enterprise as a system of economic development, poverty and inequality in market economies, global inequality, and the limits of the market and the role of government. Wealth and Freedom is distinctive in employing a rights-based approach to understanding and evaluating economic institutions. The author emphasizes the distinction between needs and wants as the basis for establishing the limits of the market, and concludes the book with a discussion of the relation between private wants and public ends.

Author : Kurt R. Leube,Albert H. Zlabinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040441748

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The Political Economy of Freedom by Kurt R. Leube,Albert H. Zlabinger Pdf

Author : G. Warren Nutter
Publisher : Indianapolis, Ind. : Liberty Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015008591516

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Political Economy and Freedom by G. Warren Nutter Pdf

These thirty-three essays, many of them previously unpublished, illustrate the broad range of Warren Nutter's thought. There are essays on the Soviet economy and international relations as well as essays exploring the economic institutions that support a society of free people. One finds in these essays a man of intellect and judgment ever ready to look at the evidence and ever willing to admit imperfections of even the best human institutions. He defends capitalism not because it is perfect but because for this imperfect world it is superior to the attainable alternatives. G. Warren Nutter (1923-1979) taught economics at the University of Virginia. Paul Craig Roberts is a distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute.

Author : Alan T. Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Free enterprise
ISBN : OCLC:1225863629

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The Political Economy of Economic Freedom by Alan T. Peacock Pdf

Author : Richard M. Ebeling
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026617220

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Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom by Richard M. Ebeling Pdf

He shows the continuities between the positive contributions of the classical economists and the Austrian's in contrast to the neoclassical conceptions of man, the market economy and theory-formation for policy applications. Particular emphasis is given to the Austrian view of the human actor as creative innovator and planner who changes his world to improve his circumstances in comparison to the neoclassical idea of man as a passive economizer within given constraints. The Austrian approach is applied to the problems of the regulated economy, socialist central planning, the welfare state, monetary policy, international trade, and the hundred-year conflict between classical liberalism and collectivism.

Author : David P. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000448238

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Normative Political Economy by David P. Levine Pdf

Normative Political Economy explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. It argues that prevailing criteria lack sufficient depth in their understanding of subjective experience. David Levine's arguments cover topics which include: * basic needs, equality and justice * freedom, self-integration and creative living * the role of the state * capitalism and the good society

Author : Nicolas Barreyre
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813937755

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Gold and Freedom by Nicolas Barreyre Pdf

Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments. Yet at its core, Reconstruction was a battle for the legacy of the Civil War that would determine the political fate not only of the South but of the nation. In Gold and Freedom, Nicolas Barreyre recovers the story of how economic issues became central to American politics after the war. The idea that a financial debate was as important for Reconstruction as emancipation may seem remarkable, but the war created economic issues that all Americans, not just southerners, had to grapple with, including a huge debt, an inconvertible paper currency, high taxation, and tariffs. Alongside the key issues of race and citizenship, the struggle with the new economic model and the type of society it created pervaded the entire country. Both were legacies of war. Both were fought over by the same citizens in a newly reunited nation. It was thus impossible for such closely related debates to proceed independently. A truly groundbreaking work, Gold and Freedom shows how much the fate of Reconstruction—and the political world it ultimately created—owed to northern sectional divisions, revealing important links between race and economy, as well as region and nation, not previously recognized.

Author : Dr Wolfgang Hoeschele
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409459545

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The Economics of Abundance by Dr Wolfgang Hoeschele Pdf

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough. The Economics of Abundance is a balanced book in which Wolfgang Hoeschele challenges why this is so. He claims that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured scarcity created by 'scarcity-generating institutions', and these institutions manipulate both demand and supply of commodities. Therefore demand consistently exceeds supply, and profits and economic growth can continue – at the cost of individual freedom, social equity, and ecological sustainability. The fact that continual increases in demand are so vital to our economy leads to an impasse: many people see no alternative to the generation of ever more demand, but at the same time recognize that it is clearly unsustainable ecologically and socially. So, can demand only be reduced by curtailing freedom and is this acceptable? This book argues that, by analyzing how scarcity-generating institutions work and then reforming or dismantling them, we can enhance individual freedom and support entrepreneurial initiative, and at the same time make progress toward social justice and environmental sustainability by reducing demands on vital resources. This vision would enable activists in many fields (social justice, civil liberties, and environmental protection), as well as many entrepreneurs and other members of civil society to work together much more effectively, make it more difficult to portray all these groups as contradictory special interests, and thereby help generate momentum for positive change. Meanwhile, for academics in many fields of study, the concept of the creation of scarcity or abundance may be a highly useful analytical tool.

Author : Benjamin Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429813207

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Economic Freedom and Prosperity by Benjamin Powell Pdf

Economic theory and a growing body of empirical research support the idea that economic freedom is an important ingredient to long-run economic prosperity. However, the determinants of economic freedom are much less understood than the benefits that freedom provides. Economic Freedom and Prosperity addresses this major gap in our knowledge. If private property and economic freedom are essential for achieving and maintaining a high standard of living, it is crucial to understand how improvements in these areas have been achieved and whether there are lessons that can be replicated in less free areas of the world today. In this edited collection, contributors investigate this research question through multiple methodologies. Beginning with three chapters that theoretically explore ways in which economic freedom might be better achieved, it then moves on to a series of empirical chapters that examine questions including the speed and permanence of reform, the deep long-run determinants of economic freedom, the relationship between voice and exit in impacting freedom, the role of crises in generating change, and immigration. Finally, the book considers the evolution of freedom in China, development economics, and international trade, and it concludes with a consideration of what is necessary to promote a humane liberalism consistent with economic freedom. Economic Freedom and Prosperity will be of great interest to all social scientists concerned with issues of institutional change. It will particularly appeal to those concerned with economic development and the determinants of an environment of economic freedom.

Author : Michael Oakeshott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Competition
ISBN : 1864320044

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The Political Economy of Freedom by Michael Oakeshott Pdf

Author : Sebastiano Bavetta,Pietro Navarra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107017849

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The Economics of Freedom by Sebastiano Bavetta,Pietro Navarra Pdf

This book develops a measure of Autonomy Freedom and sheds light on its consequences for policy and political design.

Author : David P. Levine
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Economics
ISBN : 0415235294

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Normative Political Economy by David P. Levine Pdf

This book explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. Topics covered include: equality and justice, freedom and creative living, role of the state, capitalism and the good society.

Author : Elton Rayack
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0275923630

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Not So Free to Choose by Elton Rayack Pdf

This book is a critical and carefully documented study of the influence of the teachings of economist Milton Friedman on the current administration. Claiming that Friedman's popular writings have exerted a powerful influence on the policies, ideology, and rhetoric of the Reagan administration, the author examines some 300 columns Friedman has written for Newsweek along with his best-selling books, Capitalism and Freedom and Free to Choose. While conceding that President Reagan has sometimes opposed Friedman's recommendations, the author argues that by examining which Reagan proposals deviated from Friedman's laissez-faire line we can gain insight into the Presidet's real objectives as distinguished from the goals contained in his free-market rhetoric.

Author : Wolfgang Hoeschele
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317034650

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The Economics of Abundance by Wolfgang Hoeschele Pdf

No matter how many resources we consume we never seem to have enough. The Economics of Abundance is a balanced book in which Wolfgang Hoeschele challenges why this is so. He claims that our current capitalist economy can exist only on the basis of manufactured scarcity created by 'scarcity-generating institutions', and these institutions manipulate both demand and supply of commodities. Therefore demand consistently exceeds supply, and profits and economic growth can continue - at the cost of individual freedom, social equity, and ecological sustainability. The fact that continual increases in demand are so vital to our economy leads to an impasse: many people see no alternative to the generation of ever more demand, but at the same time recognize that it is clearly unsustainable ecologically and socially. So, can demand only be reduced by curtailing freedom and is this acceptable? This book argues that, by analyzing how scarcity-generating institutions work and then reforming or dismantling them, we can enhance individual freedom and support entrepreneurial initiative, and at the same time make progress toward social justice and environmental sustainability by reducing demands on vital resources. This vision would enable activists in many fields (social justice, civil liberties, and environmental protection), as well as many entrepreneurs and other members of civil society to work together much more effectively, make it more difficult to portray all these groups as contradictory special interests, and thereby help generate momentum for positive change. Meanwhile, for academics in many fields of study, the concept of the creation of scarcity or abundance may be a highly useful analytical tool.