scholarly journals The double movement in Africa: a Nkrumah-Polanyi analysis of free market fatigue in Ghana’s private sector

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Mark Langan
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Double Movement

Leisure, Surveillance, and the Private Sector in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-98
Author(s):  
Pradip Ninan Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Double Movement

This chapter furthers the exploration of surveillance in India against the background of the Snowden revelations and WikiLeaks by focusing specifically on the role played by the private sector in the extension of surveillance, often through public–private partnerships. It explores the political economy of the surveillance industries in India against the power of ‘code’ and ‘algorithmic power’. It highlights the role played by transnational search and social networks such as Google and Facebook, and the nature of the power to control affective behaviour. It also deals with the use of code in India’s leisure industries and illustrates Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ in the use of code by communities in India as an expression of its democratization.

scholarly journals Free Market Availability of Rapid Diagnostics Will Empower Communities To Control Malaria in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manju Rahi ◽  
Amit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Malaria Incidence ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Rapid Diagnostic Tests ◽  
Rapid Diagnostics ◽  
Diagnostic Time ◽  
The Masses

Globally malaria incidence has declined, but further reductions in malaria are not evident in many countries. In addition to the public health approaches for tackling malaria, involvement of the private sector is vital because the private sector plays a central role in healthcare delivery to the masses. In India, malaria management is primarily provided through government programs. Nonetheless, significant numbers of fever patients continue to seek healthcare in the private sector. The private sector in India is comprised of formal healthcare (qualified and approved), informal healthcare (unqualified, untrained), and traditional healers. Commercial channels for the procurement of quality-assured malaria diagnostics like rapid diagnostic tests via pharmacies or other approved outlets would empower Indian populations to self-detect malaria without delay. Easier access would minimize the diagnostic time gap, reduce costs to the patient, prevent inappropriate malaria treatment, and foster timely treatment of both malaria and non-malaria infections. Commercially available rapid diagnostic tests in the hands of the people could be an important tool in our fight against malaria.

scholarly journals Il liberalismo degli indifferenti La biopolitica nell’epoca degli stranieri morali

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessio Musio
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The Body ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Universal Health

Il saggio intende offrire una valutazione del rapporto che lega il pensiero liberale alle forme della biopolitica e presenta a tal fine un doppio movimento che va dal liberalismo del libero mercato al pensiero di T. H. Engelhardt, per poi ritornare da questo al primo. Si comprenderà, così, per quale motivo anche in Engelhardt sia così essenziale quella discutibile e fenomenologicamente scorretta concezione proprietaria del corpo che segna il nesso tra liberalismo e la dottrina economica del libero mercato e che, appunto, sostanzia le tesi del filosofo texano sulla “persona”. Inoltre, diventerà possibile individuare per quale ragione nel suo pensiero compaiano contestualmente due tesi differenti: quella che attesta l’impossibilità di un’assistenza sanitaria universale per tutti gli “stranieri morali” e quella che sancisce la legittimità della non-curanza pubblica verso gli “esseri umani non-persone”. A fare da sfondo resta la domanda se sia questo tipo di liberalismo a divenire una fonte di indifferenza o non sia proprio una strana forma di ethos dell’indifferenza ad alimentarlo. ---------- This paper aims to provide an assessment of the relationship between the liberal thinking and the forms of biopolitics. For this purpose, the paper presents a double movement, which goes from the liberalism of the free market to the thought of T.H. Engelhardt, to then return from the latter to the first. Hence, it will be understood why even in Engelhardt it is so essential that questionable and phenomenologically incorrect conception–owner of the body–which marks the link between liberalism and the economic doctrine of the free market and that, in fact, substantiates the thesis of the Texan philosopher about the “person”. Further, it will be discussed why in his thought two different theses simultaneously emerge: the one claiming the inability of universal health care for all “moral foreigners” and the one stating the nonpublic disregard towards “non-person human beings”. In the background the open question is whether it is this type of liberalism to become a source of indifference or it is just a strange form of ethos of indifference to feed into it.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of enterprise equity and equity accounting

2014 ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
Ieva Vaičiulytė ◽  
Kristina Rudžionienė
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Free Market ◽  
External Factors ◽  
State Enterprise ◽  
Relevant Aspect ◽  
State Budget ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Holding Company ◽  
Similarities And Differences

From the fundamental accounting equation becomes the evidence that equity is one of the most significant indicator of enterprise state. So the process of enterprise equity formation that should be not only legally based but also economically reasoned is definitely relevant aspect in accounting. Both the reform of public sector and complex and hard to prognosticate conditions in private sector also laws of free market that promote to respond operative to external factors require complex and comprehensive equity accounting researches. The aim of this article – compare peculiarities of different enterprise equity accounting (closed share holding company, state enterprise, state budget institution). Tasks that have been set to reach the aim: 1) scrutinize requirements for share holding company, state enterprise, state budget institution of their equity accounting; 2) compare their peculiarities of equity accounting: structure of equity, similarities and differences between 3rd class of a chart of accounts. After the research becomes the evidence that equity accounting of closed share holding company is strictly regulated by laws and standards while equity accounting of state enterprise and budget institution is almost unregulated. The most specific structure of equity is in state budget institution. Whereas the structure of equity in state enterprise is closer to the structure of equity in closed share holding company. Consequently in a number of cases requirements for state enterprise of their equity accounting might become closer to requirements for closed share holding company, for example, requirements for shareholders equity, formation of reserves. In this way the stringency of regulation for closed share holding company would be taken to regulate state enterprise equity accounting. However, closed share hold company has specificities that might not be adjusted in state enterprise, for example, requirements for share premium, reserve for own shares because the activity of state enterprise is not intended to reach for profit. After the comparison of the 3rd class of a chart of accounts becomes the evidence that closed share holding company and state enterprise have many similarities. However, closed share holding company has far and away more sub accounts to register equity and changes of equity.

Financing of Power Projects

2012 ◽  
pp. 191-212
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economy Of Scale ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Almost All

Economy and finance represent major factors in the planning process. For power system planning, the investments are very huge in amount (billions of dollars). In this free market era, almost all governments are trying to reduce budgetary expenses. This results in governments divorcing themselves from being involved in such huge investments. The economy of scale forces governments to rely on the private sector. However, as the profit is the driving force for the private sector, incentives must be set clear, and regulations must be flexible enough to encourage the Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which comprises many financing schemes. These may be attractive to the private sector and, hence, enable the financing of such projects. This chapter discusses issues related to economic feasibility and financing factors that govern investment in the power industry. Different PPP schemes are discussed in further details and their potential contribution and roles in the future of the power industry are pinpointed.

scholarly journals The cicada announces the fire of the Brazilian public school: Analysis of the era of privatizing guidelines

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Alisson Slider do Nascimento De Paula ◽  
Frederico Jorge Ferreira Costa ◽  
Kátia Regina Rodrigues Lima
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Social Function ◽  
The Public ◽  
Human Formation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Education In Brazil

This text seeks to analyze the privatization guidelines both globally and at the local level and their deployment in public basic education in Brazil. For that, a bibliographic and documentary study was used, using only public domain. It is possible to diagnose the double movement of endo and exoprivatization carried out in the educational panorama of Brazil, especially through the insertion of large business groups, as well as the reforms undertaken to put into operation the privatization agenda of public basic education. It is observed that the insertion of the private sector into the spaces of human formation reverberate metamorphoses, including that of the social function of the school institution, since it incorporates a link with the business and financial logic and, consequently, will facilitate a loss of the public sense of education as a social right. 

scholarly journals Electricity Utility Companies Entering Private Sector Markets

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-279
Author(s):  
Andreas Abegg ◽  
Phil Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economies Of Scope ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Utility Companies ◽  
The One ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Harmful Effects

AbstractOn the one hand, energy utility companies (EUCs) fulfill public tasks assigned to them by the state. On the other hand, they are also often active as entrepreneurs in the free market. For example, they supply electricity products to major customers, install photovoltaic and e-mobility systems and provide services in the areas of building technology, metering and telecommunications. In such private sector activities, energy utility companies potentially enjoy unjustified advantages due to the fact that they are publicly controlled and perform public tasks: they receive particularly good financing conditions, are taxed on a privileged basis and benefit from economies of scope and information advantages when public and private sector tasks are carried out in parallel. Such privileges may distort competition or prevent companies from entering a market. This chapter examines the legal requirements for dealing with this issue and proposes specific measures with which legislators and authorities can avoid harmful effects of private sector activities by EUCs.

scholarly journals Ten years on (some lessons from the transition)

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Tošovský
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Eastern European Countries

The article offers essential reflections on ten years of experience with the transformation of the former centrally planned economies into free market economies. Although there were large differences among individual transition countries, all of them faced similar challenges early in the 1990s. The unique initial conditions of the Central and Eastern European countries called for an approach fundamentally different from reforms applied in Latin America or Asia. CEE countries had to rebuild, from scratch, a private sector, create a market-compatible institutional environment, and correct the serious inherited deformations of the real economy. In addition, at the same time they were confronted with the international liberalization of flows of goods and capital. The article aims to distinguish and analyse both objective and subjective factors affecting the process of economic transformation.

Mexican politics may prompt protectionist measures

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Market Orientation ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Unfair Trade ◽  
Mexican Politics

Subject Mexico's protectionist measures. Significance In a rather low-profile manner, the administration has adopted some protectionist measures that mark a departure from the traditional free market orientation followed by Mexico since the late 1980s. The measures are mostly geared towards illegal or unfair trade practices and favour certain specific sectors. The motives behind them are, possibly, more political than economic. Impacts The private sector will welcome further protectionist measures, despite the relatively minor economic impact they may have. Retaliation from other countries may not take place as protectionist actions are limited in their scope. Economic integration with other countries -- notably the NAFTA and the Pacific Alliance countries -- is set to continue.

Speech, Truth, and the Free Market for Ideas

Legal Theory ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin I. Goldman ◽  
James C. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
True Belief ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Adversarial System

This article examines a thesis of interest to social epistemology and some articulations of First Amendment legal theory: that a free market in speech is an optimal institution for promoting true belief. Under our interpretation, the market-for-speech thesis claims that more total truth possession will be achieved if speech is regulated only by free market mechanisms; that is, both government regulation and private sector nonmarket regulation are held to have information-fostering properties that are inferior to the free market. After discussing possible counterexamples to the thesis, the article explores the actual implications of economic theory for the emergence of truth in a free market for speech. When confusions are removed about what is maximized by perfectly competitive markets, and when adequate attention is paid to market imperfections, the failure of the market-for-speech thesis becomes clear. The article closes by comparing the properties of a free market in speech with an adversarial system of discourse.

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