Predatory Economies

Author : Amy Penfield
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477327104

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Predatory Economies by Amy Penfield Pdf

A study of the modes of predation used by and against the Sanema people of Venezuela. Predation is central to the cosmology and lifeways of the Sanema-speaking Indigenous people of Venezuelan Amazonia, but it also marks their experience of modernity under the socialist “Bolivarian” regime and its immense oil wealth. Yet predation is not simply violence and plunder. For Sanema people, it means a great deal more: enticement, seduction, persuasion. It suggests an imminent threat but also opportunity and even sanctuary. Amy Penfield spent two and a half years in the field, living with and learning from Sanema communities. She discovered that while predation is what we think it is—invading enemies, incursions by gold miners, and unscrupulous state interventions—Sanema are not merely prey. Predation, or appropriation without reciprocity, is essential to their own activities. They use predatory techniques of trickery in hunting and shamanism activities, while at the same time, they employ tactics of manipulation to obtain resources from neighbors and from the state. A richly detailed ethnography, Predatory Economies looks beyond well-worn tropes of activism and resistance to tell a new story of agency from an Indigenous perspective.

Author : Mehrdad Vahabi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107133976

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The Political Economy of Predation by Mehrdad Vahabi Pdf

This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.

Author : Stefan Hedlund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135433741

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Russia's Market Economy by Stefan Hedlund Pdf

Russia's Market Economy is a seminal account of Russia's transition to the market, its tortuous development as a fledgling market economy through the 1990s, right through to its spectacular collapse in August 1998. Rather than beginning with the economic collapse, the book traces the historical mismanagement of Russian wealth through to the Soviet command economy, and on to Gorbachev. Stefan Hedlund finally discusses what lessons should be learned from the damage inflicted on the Russian economy, as well as its social, legal and political infrastructure, by the race of reform.

Author : William Lazonick,Jang-Sup Shin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Resource allocation
ISBN : 9780198846772

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Predatory Value Extraction by William Lazonick,Jang-Sup Shin Pdf

Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as "maximizing shareholder value" (MSV) that emerged in the 1980s came to dominate strategic thinking in business schools and corporate boardrooms in the United States. Undermining the social foundationsof sustainable prosperity, it resulted in employment instability, income inequity, and slow productivity growth. In explaining what happened to sustainable prosperity, William Lazonick and Jang-Sup Shin focus on the growing imbalance between value creation and value extraction in the U.S. economy,and the corporate-governance institutions that determine this balance in the nation's major business corporations. The imbalance has become so extreme that predatory value extraction is now a central economic activity, to the point at which the U.S. economy as a whole can be aptly described as avalue-extracting economy.Balancing the contributions of economic actors to value creation with their power to extract value provides the foundation for stable and equitable economic growth. When certain economic actors are able to assert their power to extract far more value than they contribute to the value-creationprocess, an imbalance occurs which, when extreme, leads to dire economic, political, and social consequences. This book not only explores these consequences, but also sets out an agenda for restoring sustainable prosperity.

Author : Charles H. Ferguson
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 9780307952554

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Predator Nation by Charles H. Ferguson Pdf

Charles H. Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, now explains how a predator elite took over the country, step by step, and he exposes the networks of academic, financial, and political influence, in all recent administrations, that prepared the predators' path to conquest. Over the last several decades, the United States has undergone one of the most radical social and economic transformations in its history. · Finance has become America's dominant industry, while manufacturing, even for high technology industries, has nearly disappeared. · The financial sector has become increasingly criminalized, with the widespread fraud that caused the housing bubble going completely unpunished. · Federal tax collections as a share of GDP are at their lowest level in sixty years, with the wealthy and highly profitable corporations enjoying the greatest tax reductions. · Most shockingly, the United States, so long the beacon of opportunity for the ambitious poor, has become one of the world's most unequal and unfair societies. If you're smart and a hard worker, but your parents aren't rich, you're now better off being born in Munich, Germany or in Singapore than in Cleveland, Ohio or New York. This radical shift did not happen by accident. Ferguson shows how, since the Reagan administration in the 1980s, both major political parties have become captives of the moneyed elite. It was the Clinton administration that dismantled the regulatory controls that protected the average citizen from avaricious financiers. It was the Bush team that destroyed the federal revenue base with its grotesquely skewed tax cuts for the rich. And it is the Obama White House that has allowed financial criminals to continue to operate unchecked, even after supposed "reforms" installed after the collapse of 2008. Predator Nation reveals how once-revered figures like Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers became mere courtiers to the elite. Based on many newly released court filings, it details the extent of the crimes--there is no other word--committed in the frenzied chase for wealth that caused the financial crisis. And, finally, it lays out a plan of action for how we might take back our country and the American dream.

Author : Roland H. Koller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035468839

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Predatory Pricing in a Market Economy by Roland H. Koller Pdf

Author : Topher L. McDougal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192511201

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The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict by Topher L. McDougal Pdf

In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for these differences in the interface between urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To explore this question, this volume examines two regions representing two dramatically different outcomes. In West Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone), capital cities became economic targets for rebels, who posed dire threats to the survival of the state. In Maoist India, despite an insurgent ideology aiming to overthrow the state via a strategy of progressive city capture, the combat frontier effectively firewalls cities from Maoist violence. This book argues that trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas - termed 'interstitial economies' - may differ dramatically in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier. It explains rebel predatory tendencies towards cities as a function of transport networks allowing monopoly profits to be made by urban-based traders. It explains combat frontier delineation as a function of the social structure of the trade networks: hierarchical networks permit elite-elite bargains that cohere the frontier. These factors represent what might be termed respectively the 'hardware' and 'software' of the rural-urban economic relationship. Of interest to any student of political economy and violence, this book presents new arguments and insights about the relationships between violence and the economy, predation and production, core and periphery.

Author : John R. Lott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226493555

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Are Predatory Commitments Credible? by John R. Lott Pdf

Predatory pricing has long been a contentious issue among lawmakers and economists. Legal actions are continually brought against companies. But the question remains: how likely are firms to cut prices in order to drive rivals out of business? Predatory firms risk having to keep prices below cost for such an extended period that it would become cost-prohibitive. Recently, economists have turned to game theory to examine circumstances under which predatory tactics could be profitable. John R. Lott, Jr. provides long-awaited empirical analysis in this book. By examining firms accused of or convicted of predation over a thirty-year period of time, he shows that these firms are not organized as the game-theoretic or other models of predation would predict. In contrast, what evidence exists for predation suggests that government enterprises are more of a threat. Lott presents crucial new data and analysis, attacking an issue of major legal and economic importance. This impressive work will be of great interest to economists, legal scholars, and antitrust policy makers.

Author : Christian Weiß
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783638413671

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Critical Discussion of the Predatory-Trading-Theory from Brunnermeier/Pedersen by Christian Weiß Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 2,0, University of Regensburg, course: Empirical Capital Market Research, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: What were the reasons for the great c rash of the Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) of hedge funds in 19981? In short: predatory trading. But what is predatory in effect? How can predatory trading occur? What are the consequences of predatory trading? How can predatory trading be avoided? These questions will be answered in the following paper. The following description gives a first impression of predatory trading: “When you smell blood in the water, you become a shark. ... when you know that one of your number is in trouble ... you try to figure out what he owns and you start shorting those stocks ..."2The first part of this paper deals with the basics of the model of the predatory trading theory, the second part elaborates the advantages and disadvantages which are summed up in the last part.

Author : Richard Falk
Publisher : Polity
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745609368

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Predatory Globalization by Richard Falk Pdf

Trends towards economic globalization are changing the world in fundamental respects.

Author : Ararat L. Osipian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030038311

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Political and Economic Transition in Russia by Ararat L. Osipian Pdf

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory model for corporate, property, and land raiding in Russia. Building on previous scholarship, this monograph conceptualizes the predatory character of corporate hostile takeovers in Russia and links it with the coercive nature of the ruling authoritarian regime. This project will appeal to scholars, graduate students, and researchers in Russian and Post-Soviet politics, capitalism, corruption, and property rights.

Author : James K. Galbraith
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1416576215

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The Predator State by James K. Galbraith Pdf

Now available in paperback, this timely book challenges the cult of the free market that has dominated all political and economic discussion since the Reagan revolution. Even many liberals have felt the need to genuflect before the altar of free markets, but in The Predator State, progressive economist James K. Galbraith suggests that, under the Bush administration, conservatives have clearly abandoned the Reagan dogma and replaced it with crony capitalism. Tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and such schemes as privatizing Social Security would divert the national treasury into private hands and give rise to "The Predator State." The real economy, Galbraith argues, has never been entirely free of government support. Indeed, he says, much of our prosperity over the decades has been the result of a mix of private enterprise and public institutions, dating back to the New Deal. While conservatives have paid lip service to free markets as the solution to everything from health care to global warming, it is clear from the current banking and Wall Street upheavals that a lack of federal regulation has led to disaster. With witty insight, Galbraith makes it clear that we live in the age of predation. He sounds the warning bell, but also points the way to a more prosperous and progressive future.

Author : Jacques Gélinas
Publisher : London : Zed Books ; Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026624762

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Juggernaut Politics by Jacques Gélinas Pdf

The need for maximum labor flexibility in order to ensure competitiveness has replaced the old aim of making workers into productive allies and mass consumers. Jacques B. Gelinas' vivid text picks out the key elements of this new economic landscape, and explains why the owners and CEO's of this new transnational economy no longer need their traditional alliance with the state and the middle classes. He depicts governments, spellbound by the market, abandoning their obligations to defend civil society.

Author : Mehrdad Vahabi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316479358

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Political Economy of Predation by Mehrdad Vahabi Pdf

Author : Nicola Giocoli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317859635

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Predatory Pricing in Antitrust Law and Economics by Nicola Giocoli Pdf

Can a price ever be too low? Can competition ever be ruinous? Questions like these have always accompanied American antitrust law. They testify to the difficulty of antitrust enforcement, of protecting competition without protecting competitors. As the business practice that most directly raises these kinds of questions, predatory pricing is at the core of antitrust debates. The history of its law and economics offers a privileged standpoint for assessing the broader development of antitrust, its past, present and future. In contrast to existing literature, this book adopts the perspective of the history of economic thought to tell this history, covering a period from the late 1880s to present times. The image of a big firm, such as Rockefeller’s Standard Oil or Duke’s American Tobacco, crushing its small rivals by underselling them is iconic in American antitrust culture. It is no surprise that the most brilliant legal and economic minds of the last 130 years have been engaged in solving the predatory pricing puzzle. The book shows economic theories that build rigorous stories explaining when predatory pricing may be rational, what welfare harm it may cause and how the law may fight it. Among these narratives, a special place belongs to the Chicago story, according to which predatory pricing is never profitable and every low price is always a good price.