The Business Of The State

Author : Sylvia Maxfield,Ben Ross Schneider
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501731976

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Business and the State in Developing Countries by Sylvia Maxfield,Ben Ross Schneider Pdf

Much of the debate about development in the past decade pitted proponents of unfettered markets against advocates of developmental states. Yet, in many developing countries what best explains variations in economic performance is not markets or states but rather the character of relations between business and government. The studies in Business and the State in Developing Countries identify a range of close, collaborative relations between bureaucrats and capitalists that enhance elements of economic performance and defy conventional expectations that such relations lead ineluctably to rent-seeking, corruption, and collusion. All based on extensive field research, the essays contrast collaborative and collusive relations in a wide range of developing countries, mostly in Latin America and Asia, and isolate the conditions under which collaboration is most likely to emerge and survive. The contributors highlight the crucial roles played by capable bureaucracies and strong business associations.

Author : Harland Prechel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791492499

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Big Business and the State by Harland Prechel Pdf

In Big Business and the State Harland Prechel develops a conceptual framework that contrasts with prevailing definitions of the corporation. His analysis shows that corporate property rights and the legal basis of ownership are crucial to understanding corporate behavior. The book examines how historical transitions affected the three most significant corporate transformations in the last 110 years (1880s–1900s, 1920s–1930s, 1980s–1990s). During each period, in response to economic crisis, big business engaged in political behavior to pressure state managers to realign the institutional arrangements in which corporations were embedded. The historical multicausal method shows that economic crisis, managerial inefficiencies, dependence on external capital markets, and the political processes of redefining corporate property rights and corporate tax laws are crucial to understanding corporate transformation.

Author : Ronald W Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429723742

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Business And The State In International Relations by Ronald W Cox Pdf

Challenging the traditional notion that state officials act autonomously in formulating and implementing international policy, the contributors to this volume argue that the influence of organized business groups has been consistently underestimated in recent decades. Each uses a "business conflict" model of state-society relations as a new paradig

Author : Ryan Dawson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1720429375

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The Separation of Business and State by Ryan Dawson Pdf

The 2008 housing bubble bailouts were the largest financial scandal in History. Tens of trillions of dollars were needed to prop up institutions which had engaged in fraud. This wasn't the result of a lack of regulations. This was the result of criminal behavior. Investment banks illegally bribed rating agencies, so they could offload toxic securities onto third parties. Private profits and public debt could not work without the marriage between business and state. But it is not just in banking where the reverse Midas touch of government rears its rotten finger. Everything from healthcare, to education to the military to even the mail is made more expensive and dysfunctional by "government help." The Left wants big business out of government and the right wants the government out of business. The blame for which side is corrupting which is faulty logic. It is the relationship between the two that gives rise to the plutocracy. Making matters worse, is how the cult of political correctness and SJW outrage culture, turns every issue into a race/sex/prejudice issue. This, "agree with us or you're a Nazi," bully tactic has in a great degree silenced many reasonable solutions and ideas. In nearly every industry the problems can be resolved by separating business and state.

Author : Kunal Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135129064

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State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India by Kunal Sen Pdf

When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion. This book, based on original empirical research undertaken in Africa and India, addresses what constitutes the effectiveness of state-business relations, what explains their formation and evolution over time and whether effective state-business relations matter for economic performance. Analysing the effects of state-business relations on economic performance at both the macro and micro levels, the book concludes that where effective state-business relations are established – either through formal or informal institutional patterns and relationships – the growth effects are generally positive. Establishing, sustaining and renewing effective state-business relations are political processes. The better organized the business community and the government are for purposes of such relations, the more effective state-business relations will be in negotiating growth enhancing policies. The book is of interest to researchers in the fields of development studies, management, economics and political science.

Author : Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351213455

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Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State by Dennie Oude Nijhuis Pdf

This edited volume provides a synthesis on the question of business attitudes towards and its influence over the development of the modern welfare state. It gathers leading scholars in the field to offer both in-depth historical country case studies and comparative chapters that discuss contemporary developments. Composed of six archive-based historical narratives of business’ role in the development of social insurance programs in Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and six comparative case studies, this volume also extends the study of business to policy fields that have hitherto received little attention in the literature, such as active labor market policies, educational policies, employment protection legislation, healthcare, private pension programs and work‐family policies. It illuminates why business groups have responded so very differently to demands for increased social protection against different labor market risks in different countries and over time. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of comparative welfare, political science, sociology, social policy studies, comparative political economy and welfare history. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Gita Steiner-Khamsi,Alexandra Draxler
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788970334

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The State, Business and Education by Gita Steiner-Khamsi,Alexandra Draxler Pdf

Businesses, philanthropies and non-profit entities are increasingly successful in capturing public funds to support private provision of schooling in developed and developing countries. Coupled with market-based reforms that include weak regulation, control over workforces, standardization of processes and economies of scale, private provision of schooling is often seen to be convenient for both public authorities and businesses. This book examines how the public subsidization of these forms of private education affects quality, equality and the realization of human rights.With original research from leading experts, The State, Business and Education sheds light on the privatization of education in fragile circumstances. It illustrates the ways in which private actors have expanded their involvement in education as a business, and shows the influence of policy borrowing on the spread of for-profit education. Case studies from Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India and Syrian refugee camps illustrate the ways in which private actors have expanded their involvement in education as a business.This book will be of interest not only to academics and students of international and comparative education, but also to education development professionals in both the private and public sectors, with its empirical assessment of case studies, and careful consideration of the lessons to be learned from each.

Author : Aldo Musacchio,Sergio G. Lazzarini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674729681

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Reinventing State Capitalism by Aldo Musacchio,Sergio G. Lazzarini Pdf

The wave of liberalization that swept world markets in the 1980s and 90s altered the ways that governments manage their economies. Reinventing State Capitalism analyzes 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 (the so-called "national champions"). Focusing on a detailed quantitative assessment of Brazil's economic performance from 1976 to 2009, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio Lazzarini examine how these models of state capitalism influence corporate investment and performance. According to one model, the state acts as a majority investor, granting the state-owned enterprise (SOE) financial autonomy and allowing professional management. This form, the authors argue, has reduced many agency problems commonly faced by state ownership. According to another hybrid model, the state uses sovereign wealth funds, holding companies, and development banks to acquire a small share of equity ownership in a corporation, thereby potentially alleviating capital constraints and leveraging latent capabilities. Both models have benefits and costs. Yet neither model has entirely eliminated the temptation of governments to intervene in the operation of natural resource industries and other large strategic enterprises. Nevertheless, the longstanding debate over whether private ownership is superior or inferior to state capitalism has become irrelevant, Musacchio and Lazzarini conclude. Private ownership is now mingled with state capital on a global scale.

Author : Patrick Alan Pierce,Donald E. Miller
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1588262685

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Gambling Politics by Patrick Alan Pierce,Donald E. Miller Pdf

Examines the dramatic growth of legal gambling in the United States--and the shifting and often contentious politics accompanying its spread.

Author : Johannes Leitner,Hannes Meissner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315308616

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State Capture, Political Risks and International Business by Johannes Leitner,Hannes Meissner Pdf

In the OECD-area states provide security business to be conducted through a legal-institutional framework where state institutions, working in a legal-rational, predictable and effective manner, are often taken for granted. Worldwide, however the situation is very different. Private actors seize public institutions and processes accumulating ever more power and private wealth by systematically abusing, side-stepping, ignoring and tailoring formal institutions to fit their interests. Such forms of ‘state capture’ are associated with specific political risks international businesses are confronted with when operating in these countries, such as institutional ambiguity, systematic favouritism and systemic corruption. This edited volume covers state capture, political risks and international business from the perspectives of Political Science and International Business Studies. Uniting theoretical approaches and empirical insights, it examines Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey. Each chapter deals with country specific forms of state capture and the associated political risks bridging the gap between political analysis and business related impacts.

Author : G Grant Amyot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134946365

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Business, The State and Economic Policy by G Grant Amyot Pdf

The framework sketched in this new book explains the relationship between state and capital in Italy as well as some of the major directions in macroeconomic theory. These fields encompass both Italy's entry to EMU in 1999 and the impact of Silvio Berlusconi on Italian politics and economics.

Author : Mariana Mazzucato
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593656945

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The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato Pdf

Award-winning economist Mariana Mazzucato’s famously incisive international bestseller debunking the pervasive myth of the inept state versus an innovative private sector—with a new preface by the author According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the bold entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if that wasn't case? What if, from the inventions of Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has actually been the most courageous and valuable risk-taker of all? Critically acclaimed and influential thinker and scholar Mariana Mazzucato argues comprehensively against the myth of a lumbering, bureaucratic state versus a dynamic, innovative private sector with remarkable original and deep research. In a series of case studies—from nanotechnology to the emerging green tech of today—Mazzucato reveals that the opposite is true: the private sector only finds the courage to invest after an entrepreneurial state has made the high-risk investments. The Entrepreneurial State reveals how every technology that makes the iPhone so “smart” was actually funded by the government—from the Internet and GPS technology, to touch-screen displays and voice-activated Siri. In the history of modern capitalism, the State has not only fixed market failures, but has also actively shaped and created markets. In doing so, it sometimes wins and sometimes fails. Yet by not admitting the State’s role in active risk taking, we've created an "innovation system" where the public sector socializes risks while privatizing reward, as Mazzucato controversially argues. This bold and provocative book considers how we adopted this dysfunctional dynamic, and then how we can overcome it so that economic growth can be not only "smart" but "inclusive" as well.

Author : Richard J. Samuels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031282742

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The Business of the Japanese State by Richard J. Samuels Pdf

Author : Pál Fodor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783112209431

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The Business of State by Pál Fodor Pdf

Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist György Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.

Author : Patrick J. McGrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0807874418

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Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960 by Patrick J. McGrath Pdf

Scientists, Business, and the State, 1890-1960