... systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors)
with politicaleconomy (research on the social andpolitical regulation of
economic relations) and thereby contributing to the analysis of state ... draft only
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The PoliticalEconomyofthe ‘New Biology’:
Biotechnology andthe Competition State
Abstract
The central hypothesis of this paper is that the bio -economy is critically ... historical variants ofthe Keynesian welfare state. The
paper compares three cases of governance ofthe biotechnology sector: Finland
and Sweden, the USA andthe UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate...
... change for the time being. Now the strategy is
essentially a return to the ‘policy of a calm hand’ (Politik der ruhigen Hand) of the
summer of 2001, in the hope of some sort of spin-off from global ... reforms had the oppo-
site effect as they added to the rigidity ofthe labour market and created new incentives
to work in the underground economy.
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Suspension ofthe demographic factor was ... the doctors andthe health insurance
funds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf ofthe doctors and negotiates collec-
tive contracts with the funds. Because ofthe KBV system, the funds...
... the
embeddedness of governing elites (that is, thepolitical leadership andthe economic
technocracy) in state institutions, andthe way technocrats andpolitical leaders relate to
each other ... discussion ofthe institutional configuration of state
power in Thailand andthe Philippines, a discussion that will occupy the rest of this
dissertation.
Thailand’s Bureaucratic Polity andthe ... STRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
THE POLITICALECONOMYOF THAILAND ANDTHE PHILIPPINES
by
Antoinette R. Raquiza
Adviser: Professor Susan L. Woodward
This dissertation investigates the factors...
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... empirical data and examples to illustrate the inequities of the
trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths
surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid andthe degree of
capital ... development and modernisa-
tion and, in highlighting the poverty ofthe mainstream, offers critical
insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice
and thepoliticaland ... anti-market, where the great predators
roam andthe law ofthe jungle operates. This … is the real home of
capitalism’ (Braudel 1982: 229–30).
This zone is ‘on the top floor ofthe house oftrade (Arrighi...
... introduces the reader to the
contours ofthepoliticaleconomyof development andthe institutional
regime within which ‘creditor states’
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compete and co-operate in the
extension of markets. The term ... literature of
internationalpoliticaleconomy has allowed neoliberalism to remain
the dominant ideology ofinternational development theory and for
the Great Predators ofthe age – the multinational ... debt, andthe higher costs of living following the ‘Volcker Shock’
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adjustment. Then, the negotiated settlement ofthe debt crisis, between
the creditor banks, the creditor governments andthe international...
... critically obscures how the
divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the
technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the
politicaleconomyof development. It ... concentrated in the IFIs and
large banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii),
in the boardroom ofthe global economy, and their relatively small
number explains in part both the herd ... brief overview ofthe availability of
liquidity from the private sector andthe public sector in the form of
development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship
conceptually and practically...
... greater prof-
itability of merchant capital through ‘opening’ markets and the
promotion of ‘free’ trade (and the associated reduction ofthe ability
of governments to tax moving goods), the role of ... of equity, andthe institutionalisation of risk
which underwrites it, forms the skeleton ofthepoliticaleconomy of
development in the poorest and most indebted countries. It secures
and returns ... senior official in the CDC in
1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take
investment decisions:
by understanding the human nature of these people, how they
are moving and the...
... arguably, the Corporation became the sole acceptable represen-
tative ofthe British state, with promotion of local citizens and the
presence ofthe Regional Controller and office which ‘took the edge ... interests:
those ofthe British state which sponsored it andthe particular interests
of the people it would employ overseas given the structural position of
the colonies in the world economyand sterling ... the more conservative views of first
the Colonial Office and then the Overseas Development Ministry. The
Corporation saw its role from 1948:
as being primarily to raise the living standards of...
... centre ofthepoliticaland cultural
problem of relational poverty. As Mayer summarises, again in terms of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic:
the real problem remains one ofpolitical will on most fronts, of
social ... management of development finance and the
socialisation of risk in the markets ofthe South, emerged.
This chapter has given an historical review ofthe frontier institu-
tions ofthe British state and ... Africa in both these years,
and presumably most of those in between. Meanwhile, the aid
dependence ofthe countries at the low end ofthe HDI ranking
is reflected in the high figures of Official Development...