Tag: Economies

Free Download Laszlo Bruszt, Ronald Holzhacker, "The Transnationalization of Economies, States, and Civil Societies: New Challenges for Governance in Europe"
English | 2009 | pages: 306 | ISBN: 0387893385, 1489985271 | PDF | 3,3 mb
7. 1. 1 Research Question The electricity sector has undergone and continues to experience a fundamental transformation. Liberalization, deregulation and re-regulation have spread around the world, which has led to a far-reaching restructuring of the sector. In Europe, this trend has been reinforced by a European Union (EU) directive adopted in 1996. This directive alone, however, cannot suf ciently explain how and why most co- tries, some of them not members of the EU, decided to liberalize their electricity sectors. First, the directive gave large leeway to the member states about how to implement liberalization, and second, the phenomenon is an almost global trend, not limited to Europe. Therefore, Europeanization as an explanation for the electr- ity market’s liberalization has been criticized for overemphasizing the impact of the EU (Fligstein and Merand 2001; Jordana et al. 2006; Levi-Faur 2004; Verdier and Breen 2001). A more encompassing approach to explain why governments decided to lib- alize their electricity markets is offered by the recent research agenda of trans- tionalization. Transnationalization can be de ned as ‘[. . . ] the regular interactions between state and non-state actors across national boundaries aimed at shaping political and social outcomes at home, abroad, and in an emerging global sphere of governance’ (Orenstein and Schmitz 2006: 7). The approach of transnationalization includes both state and nonstate actors.

Free Download Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization and the Afterlife of Development By Daromir Rudnyckyj
2010 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 0801448506 | PDF | 20 MB
In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity-but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj’s innovative and surprising book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create a "spiritual economy" consisting of practices conducive to globalization.Drawing on more than two years of research in Indonesia, most of which took place at state-owned Krakatau Steel, Rudnyckyj shows how self-styled "spiritual reformers" seek to enhance the Islamic piety of workers across Southeast Asia and beyond. Deploying vivid description and a keen ethnographic sensibility, Rudnyckyj depicts a program called Emotional and Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) training that reconfigures Islamic practice and history to make the religion compatible with principles for corporate success found in Euro-American management texts, self-help manuals, and life-coaching sessions. The prophet Muhammad is represented as a model for a corporate CEO and the five pillars of Islam as directives for self-discipline, personal responsibility, and achieving "win-win" solutions.Spiritual Economies reveals how capitalism and religion are converging in Indonesia and other parts of the developing and developed world. Rudnyckyj offers an alternative to the commonly held view that religious practice serves as a refuge from or means of resistance against modernization and neoliberalism. Moreover, his innovative approach charts new avenues for future research on globalization, religion, and the predicaments of modern life.

Free Download Creating wealth: growing local economies with local currencies By Hallsmith, Gwendolyn;Lietaer, Bernard A.;Lovins, L. Hunter;Meadows, Dennis
2011 | 269 Pages | ISBN: 0865716676 | EPUB | 1 MB
pt. 1. Local economics — pt. 2. Examples of complementary currencies — pt. 3. Making it happen

Free Download Corporate Governance by Banks in Transition Economies: The Polish Experience By Arnold Holle (auth.)
1998 | 274 Pages | ISBN: 3824467461 | PDF | 8 MB
In developed economies a consensus has evolved that banks should lend money to enterprises, not own them. Emerging economies face a different set of challenges which force us to reconsider the bank-enterprise relationship. In theory banks should play a key role in corporate governance. As a consequence, decision-makers in transition economies chose to emulate the German and Japanese models of bank-enterprise relationships. The empirical study presented here looks in detail at the Polish Enterprise and Bank Restructuring Program, which places banks center-stage. The Polish experience shows the necessity of completely overhauling the bankruptcy laws and institutions at the outset of any restructuring program. Banks need to be privatized before they can effectively exert corporate governance.

Free Download Jane Jacobs, "The Nature of Economies"
English | 2001 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 0375702431, 0679603409 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
From the revered author of the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.

Free Download Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Uncontrolled Crossings
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032597690 | 311 Pages | PDF (True) | 5.4 MB
Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area-approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle-located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products-salt, cotton and silk-all of which fuelled the black market between the last decades of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. This volume offers an original contribution to wider studies of smuggling, illicit markets and women’s economic roles by taking into account the economic life of remote mountain communities and industrious cities.

Free Download Bruce M. Bagley, "The Impact of Emerging Economies on Global Energy and the Environment: Challenges Ahead"
English | ISBN: 1498519113 | 2015 | 356 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

Free Download Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North American Poetry by Ann Keniston
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 150 Pages | ISBN : 3031393406 | 6.3 MB
This book offers the first sustained study of the ways 21st century North American poems engage with financialization. It argues that recent poems about economics not only discuss but enact concerns with containment and agency essential to the contemporary financialized economy by manipulating the seemingly old-fashioned figures of synecdoche (the representation of the whole by the part) and prosopopeia or personification. Its four body chapters offer in-depth readings of the work of eleven formally, culturally, and thematically diverse contemporary U.S. and Canadian poets who variously consider labor, consumerism, debt, and the derivative form; the Coda reads several recent poems about reparations in terms of an emerging tendency to emphasize the historical, racialized, and ethical contexts of contemporary economics. As the book explores financialization’s representation in recent poetry, it redresses arguments that poetry is irrelevant to contemporary culture.

Free Download Religious Economies in Secular Context: Halal Markets, Practices and Landscapes
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031186028 | 316 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14 MB
This edited collection is one of the few sociological and anthropological studies of Halal markets. The chapters inquire into the legal and religious aspects of Halal markets in non-Muslim contexts or the countries where the label ‘Halal’ matters, and is not taken for granted as it is the case in most of the Muslim world where it is an accepted norm. In many countries, ‘Halal’ has become a type of brand used to market food and cosmetic products. This is an effective marketing strategy because it appeals directly to Muslims, but also increasingly to non-Muslims who seek pure, fresh products. In this case ‘Halal’ implies attributes similar to other brands where quality and purity is guaranteed, such as Fair Trade, Bio or organic in the US and Europe, but with the additional appeal to prospective Muslim consumers that it satisfies Islamic norms.The book consists of contributions on Halal economies in non-Muslim societies dealing with such dilemmas as rational thinking and halal philosophy within various fields of halal economy such as regulation, production, marketing, service delivery and consumption.

Free Download Corporate Management Ecosystem in Emerging Economies: Global Perspectives
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031415779 | 604 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 13 MB
Emerging economies, as actively changing societies, invoke questions about the future direction for national and global development as well as equitable economic growth. In this book, the Editors argue that understanding the corporate management ecosystem of emerging economies is key to business success in the globalized economy.