The Political Economy Of Collective Action Inequality And Development

Author : William D. Ferguson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781503611979

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The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development by William D. Ferguson Pdf

This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development. In this context, progress requires the reform of existing arrangements, along with the complementary evolution of informal institutions. It involves enhancing state capacity, balancing broad avenues for political input, and limiting concentrated private and public power. This juggling act can only be accomplished by resolving collective-action problems (CAPs), which arise when individuals pursue interests that generate undesirable outcomes for society at large. Merging and extending key perspectives on CAPs, inequality, and development, this book constructs a flexible framework to investigate these complex issues. By probing four basic hypotheses related to knowledge production, distribution, power, and innovation, William D. Ferguson offers an analytical foundation for comparing and evaluating approaches to development policy. Navigating the theoretical terrain that lies between simplistic hierarchies of causality and idiosyncratic case studies, this book promises an analytical lens for examining the interactions between inequality and development. Scholars and researchers across economic development and political economy will find it to be a highly useful guide.

Author : Marcello Basili,Maurizio Franzini,Alessandro Vercelli
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415342341

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Environment, Inequality and Collective Action by Marcello Basili,Maurizio Franzini,Alessandro Vercelli Pdf

The Siena Summer School hosts lectures by distinguished scholars and offers a clear account of alternative research paths. This latest addition to the series identifies and addresses key issues surrounding the inequality-environment relationship.

Author : William D. Ferguson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804785563

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Collective Action and Exchange by William D. Ferguson Pdf

In Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Contemporary Political Economy, William D. Ferguson presents a comprehensive political economy text aimed at advanced undergraduates in economics and graduate students in the social sciences. The text utilizes collective action as a unifying concept, arguing that collective-action problems lie at the foundation of market success, market failure, economic development, and the motivations for policy. Ferguson draws on information economics, social preference theory, cognition theory, institutional economics, as well as political and policy theory to develop this approach. The text uses classical, evolutionary, and epistemic game theory, along with basic social network analysis, as modeling frameworks. These models effectively bind the ideas presented, generating a coherent theoretic approach to political economy that stresses sometimes overlooked implications.

Author : Luis Medina
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472024450

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A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change by Luis Medina Pdf

The notion that groups form and act in ways that respond to objective, external costs and benefits has long been the key to accounting for social change processes driven by collective action. Yet this same notion seems to fall apart when we try to explain how collectivities emerge out of the choices of individuals. This book overcomes that dilemma by offering an analysis of collective action that, while rooted in individual decision making, also brings out the way in which objective costs and benefits can impede or foster social coordination. The resulting approach enables us to address the causes and consequences of collective action with the help of the tools of modern economic theory. To illustrate this, the book applies the tools it develops to the study of specific collective action problems such as clientelism, focusing on its connections with economic development and political redistribution; and wage bargaining, showing its economic determinants and its relevance for the political economy of the welfare state. "Medina's study is a great step forward in the analytics of collective action. He shows the inadequacies of currently standard models and shows that straightforward revisions reconcile rational-choice and structural viewpoints. It will influence all future work." -Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University "Olson, Schelling, and now Medina. A Unified Theory deepens our understanding of collective action and contributes to the foundations of our field. A major work." -Robert H. Bates, Harvard University "Medina thinks that the main problem of social action is not whether or not to cooperate but how to do it. To this end he has produced an imaginative approach to analyzing strategic coordination problems that produces plausible predictions in a range of circumstances." -John Ferejohn, Stanford University Luis Fernando Medina is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Author : Mitchell A. Seligson,John T. Passé-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1555874002

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Development and Underdevelopment by Mitchell A. Seligson,John T. Passé-Smith Pdf

Author : Barry R. Weingast,Donald Wittman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199548477

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy by Barry R. Weingast,Donald Wittman Pdf

Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.

Author : Freddy Cante,Wanda Tatiana Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351383677

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Nonviolent Political Economy by Freddy Cante,Wanda Tatiana Torres Pdf

Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a social state of peacefulness, involving minimal violence and minimal destruction of nature. The book provides renewed reflections on heterodox economics, ecological economics, anthropology, Buddhism, Gandhianism, disarmament, and business ethics, as well as innovative initiatives such as Blue Frontiers. It also sets out feasible solutions to rebuild countries that have suffered prolonged conflicts such as Syria, Iraq and Kurdistan. Bringing together authors from around the world, this collection includes new perspectives on the abolition of profit; disarmament; obliteration of the consumer society; expansion of collective property; Buddhist and Gandhian economies; small-scale and artisanal production, the increasing use of clean energies; a gradual reduction in the human population; political processes closer to direct and radical democracy, and anarchy. Discussing cutting-edge developments, this book provides valuable tools to build alternatives to the prevailing models of (violent) political economy. It will be of great interest to a public of critical citizens, students and researchers from a range of disciplines and backgrounds, and all those seeking to understand the fundamental concepts of nonviolent political economy.

Author : Frank Stilwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509528684

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The Political Economy of Inequality by Frank Stilwell Pdf

During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank Stilwell provides a comprehensive overview of the nature, causes, and consequences of this growing divide. He shows how we can understand inequalities of wealth and incomes, globally and nationally, examines the scale of the problem and explains how it affects our wellbeing. He also shows that, although governments are often committed to ‘growth at all costs’ and ‘trickle down’ economics, there are alternative public policies that could be used to narrow the gap between rich and poor. Stilwell’s engaging and clear guide to the issues will be indispensable reading for all students, general readers and scholars interested in inequality in political economy, economics, public policy and beyond.

Author : Frank Ackerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028579436

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The Political Economy of Inequality by Frank Ackerman Pdf

A literature survey of books and articles, with summaries of 70-90 selections, and introductory essays by the editors.

Author : Mitchell A. Seligson,John T. Passé-Smith
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588262065

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Development and Underdevelopment by Mitchell A. Seligson,John T. Passé-Smith Pdf

Presenting both classic pieces and the most up-to-date arguments in the debates about issues of economic growth and inequality, this is a guide to understanding the causes and dynamics of persistent income gap between rich and poor countries, as well as rich and poor within the poor countries.

Author : Jacob S. Hacker,Alexander Hertel-Fernandez,Paul Pierson,Kathleen Thelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516362

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The American Political Economy by Jacob S. Hacker,Alexander Hertel-Fernandez,Paul Pierson,Kathleen Thelen Pdf

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Author : Mitchell A Seligson
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039737684

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The Gap Between Rich And Poor by Mitchell A Seligson Pdf

Economic policy, economic development, wealth, poverty, developed country, developing country, future - theoretics, economic growth, income distribution, ethics, sociological aspects, urbanization, modernization, dependence, basic needs, case studies, income redistribution in Central America, sugar production in Cuba. References.

Author : Valpy FitzGerald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780306481598

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Social Institutions and Economic Development by Valpy FitzGerald Pdf

Jan Pronk The role of institutions in economic development has been debated at length. It is a major chapter in the history of economic thought. It was also a key - sue in comparisons of the effectiveness of Eastern and Western economic systems. Understanding the variety of social and cultural institutions has - ways been crucial in analysing development processes in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. Less attention has been given to institutions in studies of the economic performance of Western countries. This may be because economic policies in the West were mostly oriented to the short and medium terms rather than to the long-term perspective. In the short run ins- tutions are given, in the long run they lend themselves for change. From the outset, economic institutions (e.g. markets, enterprises) and their underlying values (e.g. efficiency, economicfreedom) received much - tention. Similar attention was given to political institutions (the state, government, the law) and values (democracy, accountability, human rights). Thought also turned to social institutions (entrepreneurship, the middle class, the family household, land-tenure systems) and social values (tradition, gender and age relations, justice). Studies soon followed of cultural insti- tions (religion, ethnicity) and values (material consumerism or the bond between man and nature). Without the insight gained by studying insti- tions, economics would have become a dull discipline.

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Industries
ISBN : 0415075653

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Who Pays for the Kids? by Nancy Folbre Pdf

"How are the costs of caring for ourselves, our children and other dependents distributed among members of society? These costs are largely paid by women, both inside and outside the money economy." - introduction.

Author : Alexander Gallas,Hansjörg Herr,Frank Hoffer,Christoph Scherrer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317423850

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Combating Inequality by Alexander Gallas,Hansjörg Herr,Frank Hoffer,Christoph Scherrer Pdf

Economic inequality has recently gained considerable academic attention. However, two important aspects of inequality have not been discussed systematically: its multidimensional nature and the question of what can be done to reverse it. This book offers insights from scholars representing the Global Labour University, which operates in Brazil, Germany, India, South Africa and the US. They analyse the various drivers of inequality, assess policy responses, and discuss counterstrategies. The main findings of this book are that rising levels of inequality cannot be addressed only with the standard policies responses, namely education, redistribution and ‘green growth’. In addition, the way markets currently function needs to be corrected. The chapters in this volume focus on specific fields of contemporary capitalism where important drivers of inequality are located, for example, the labour market; the financial system; the tax system; multi-national corporations; and gender relations. Other chapters discuss in detail where political opportunities for change lie. They critically assess existing countermeasures; the idea of a ‘green economy’ and its implications for inequality; and existing campaigns by trade unions and new social movements against inequality. In line with the global nature of the problem, this book contains case studies on countries both from the north and south with considerable economic and political weight. This book provides academics, political practitioners and civil society activists with a range of ideas on how to drive back inequality. It will be of interest to those who study political economy, development economy and labour economics.