Reinventing Capitalism In New Zealand

Author : Christopher Wilkes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527534056

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Reinventing Capitalism in New Zealand by Christopher Wilkes Pdf

In the nineteenth century, Britain bestrode the world. Its domination depended in part on it exporting its social and economic problems to the farthest reaches of the globe. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, Britain’s élite thought they had found a ready-made country in which to re-establish their way of life. This invasion might ease their problems at home, and extend their influence to the edge of the earth. White settlers began to arrive in New Zealand in numbers during the 1840s, and sought to reinvent capitalism in a new land. This book traces the shape of this reinvention, and the slow emergence of New Zealand’s particular form of class structure. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the history of capitalism, and its colonial ambitions. It sheds light on the enduring nature of inequality in New Zealand, and where it might originate. Students of political science, sociology, history and cultural studies will find its arguments of interest.

Author : Jared Davidson
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781991033413

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Blood and Dirt by Jared Davidson Pdf

Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard-labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand. Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. The unfree work of prisoners has shaped New Zealand's urban centres and rural landscapes, and Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa – the Pacific – in profound and unsettling ways. Yet these stories are largely unknown: a hidden history in plain sight. Blood and Dirt explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Jared Davidson asks us to look beyond the walls of our nineteenth- and early twentieth-century prisons to see penal practice as playing an active, central role in the creation of modern New Zealand. Journeying from the Hohi mission station in the Bay of Islands through to Milford Sound, vast forest plantations, and on to Parliament itself, this vivid and engaging book will change the way you view New Zealand.

Author : Stephen Denning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009332859

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Reinventing Capitalism in the Digital Age by Stephen Denning Pdf

This Element examines the current crisis of capitalism's legitimacy and concludes that it derives principally from business pursuing an aberration of capitalism known as shareholder capitalism, in which firms sought to maximize shareholder value as reflected in the current share price, at the expense of all other stakeholders and society. Shareholder capitalism began in the 1970s and was renounced by the Business Roundtable in 2019, but continues behind a façade of stakeholder capitalism. Stakeholder capitalism is the most widely cited form of capitalism today, but it is incoherent as a practical guide to action for an entire firm. This Element concludes that a recent evolution of capitalism--customer capitalism--which gives primacy to co-creating value for customers and users, enables firms to master the challenges of the digital age, shower benefits on society, and meet the needs of all the stakeholders.

Author : Chris Wilkes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781036403027

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Britain's Flirtation with the Socialist Imaginary by Chris Wilkes Pdf

In 1945, Winston Churchill, fresh from winning World War Two for Britain, called an election. Within days, he was thrown out, and a completely new form of government took hold. What followed was a revolutionary period in British history, in which centuries of tradition were questioned. Socialism appeared to be waiting in the wings. This book traces the origins of this transformation in the long history of British democracy. It examines the ideas and actions which began in the 1930s that enabled this revolution and the new society that emerged beyond its origins and into the 21st Century. The problems that this revolution sought to solve remain to this day, as the British government in 2024 wrestles with strikes, social disorder, and massive economic headwinds. Understanding the history of the present dilemmas is essential if we are to grapple successfully with the enduring problems Britain still faces to this day.

Author : Georgina Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351953450

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Capitalist Networks and Social Power in Australia and New Zealand by Georgina Murray Pdf

It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By contrast this book looks at the real elite in Australian and New Zealand society and shows that there is still a ruling class based upon economic dominance. From an analysis of corporate and public records, interviews, and other primary and secondary data, it develops a picture of networks of power that are changing but are as real as any network in the past.

Author : Torben Iversen,David Soskice
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691210216

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Democracy and Prosperity by Torben Iversen,David Soskice Pdf

It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world's leading political economists, argues this view is wrong: advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial. For all the chaos and upheaval over the past century--major wars, economic crises, massive social change, and technological revolutions--Torben Iversen and David Soskice show how democratic states continuously reinvent their economies through massive public investment in research and education, by imposing competitive product markets and cooperation in the workplace, and by securing macroeconomic discipline as the preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated vast numbers of well-paying jobs for the middle classes and their children, focusing the aims of aspirational families, and in turn providing electoral support for parties. Gains at the top have also been shared with the middle (though not the bottom) through a large welfare state. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on globalization, advanced capitalism is neither footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy.

Author : Gerard Anthony Reed
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811907036

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Entrepreneurs Navigating a Universe of Disruption by Gerard Anthony Reed Pdf

This book details the exploratory stages of a research study that produced a framework for entrepreneurial endeavour and enterprise. It presents an unfolding discussion, throughout its chapters, regarding the entrepreneurial nature potential within us all, and the modes by which those involved in such activity, and associated innovative discoveries, can be informed by the skills and experience already in their possession. The book also provides, through its structure, a tool by which the entrepreneur, innovator, educator, student or those yet-to-be involved in the entrepreneurial arena can plan for the yet-to-be known eventualities of such endeavour. The parabolic scramble framework is backgrounded across the discussion of entrepreneurship and the necessity to deal with the tangible and intangibility of any venture, as well as other considered aspects that the entrepreneurial journey engenders.

Author : Martin Wolf
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735224223

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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf Pdf

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone, and what can be done to reverse this terrifying dynamic Martin Wolf has long been one of the wisest voices on global economic issues. He has rarely been called an optimist, yet he has never been as worried as he is today. Liberal democracy is in recession, and authoritarianism is on the rise. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are threatened, even in democracy’s heartlands, the United States and England. Around the world, powerful voices argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others argue that democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views. Even as it offers a deep, lucid assessment of why this marriage has grown so strained, it makes clear why a divorce of capitalism from democracy would be a calamity for the world. They need each other even if they find it hard to life together. For all its flaws, argues Wolf, democratic capitalism remains far and away the best system for human flourishing. But something has gone seriously awry: the growth of prosperity has slowed, and the division of its fruits between the hypersuccessful few and the rest has become more unequal. The plutocrats have retreated to their bastions, where they pour scorn on government’s ability to invest in the public goods needed to foster opportunity and sustainability. But the incoming flood of autocracy will rise to overwhelm them, too, in the end. Citizenship is not just a slogan or a romantic idea; it’s the only idea that can save us, Wolf argues. Nothing has ever harmonized political and economic freedom better than a shared faith in the common good. This wise and rigorously fact-based exploration of the epic story of the dynamic between democracy and capitalism concludes with the lesson that our ideals and our interests not only should align, but must do so, for everyone’s sake. Democracy itself is now at stake.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:654183482

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The New Zealand Experiment, Towards a Post-structuralist Political Economy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Māori (New Zealand people)
ISBN : UOM:39076005463406

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Economics of the New Zealand Maori by Raymond Firth Pdf

This book is a major scientific contribution to economic anthropology and has now become a standard work. The original edition gave the first systematic analysis of the basic problems concerned with the accumulation and disposal of wealth among the pre-European Maori. In the elucidation of this important aspect of Maori sociology the rich data accumulated by generations of scholars were brought into perspective in the light of modern theory. The analysis of the structure and operations of primitive Maori economic affairs was completed by an examination of the changes resulting from the contact of Maori with Europeans. For this new edition the general introductory chapter has been completely rewritten and much new material added. The final chapter on the post-European period has been much expanded to show the developing contribution of the modern Maori to New Zealand society as a whole.

Author : Matt Mason
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781416532200

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The Pirate's Dilemma by Matt Mason Pdf

Explores the influence of youth culture on transforming mainstream society through innovative cooperative venues and modern "do-it-yourself" values, in a report that reveals what can be learned through the indirect social experiments being performed by today's young artists and entrepreneurs. Reprint.

Author : David Crowther,Shahla Seifi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787561625

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Redefining Corporate Social Responsibility by David Crowther,Shahla Seifi Pdf

Through a series of studies of aspects of CSR from around the world, this book re-examines the topic though the lenses of various disciplines and cultures. It shows that the subject is much wider than is generally perceived and that CSR is evolving in a way which has not been generally recognized within the academic community.

Author : Roger Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN : 1869411986

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Unfinished Business by Roger Douglas Pdf

Author : Aldo Musacchio,Aldo Musacchio Farias,Sérgio G. Lazzarini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674729681

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Reinventing State Capitalism by Aldo Musacchio,Aldo Musacchio Farias,Sérgio G. Lazzarini Pdf

Focusing on a quantitative assessment of Brazil's economic performance 1976-2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini analyze the rise of new species of state capitalism in which governments interact with private investors either as majority or minority shareholders in publicly-traded corporations or as financial backers of purely private firms.

Author : Hank Bordowitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617130823

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Billy Joel by Hank Bordowitz Pdf

Billy Joel: The Life and Times of an Angry Young Man is a look at the superstar's entire career, including his troubled youth as a gang member; the controversy surrounding his first hit, “Captain Jack”; his legal problems; his storied marriage with Christie Brinkley; and his continued artistic frustration. “The Beatles did 'Michelle' and 'Yesterday '” he has said., “They also did 'Revolution' and 'Helter Skelter' and they weren't pegged as balladeers. But because I had hit singles that were ballads, I became known as a balladeer. I've always resented it.” Joel – one of the top ten touring takes of the decade – has continued his standing road date with Elton John on the never-ending Two Pianos tour. It was one of the world's top-grossing tours in 2009, just behind U2 and Bruce Springsteen.