The political economy of social democratic economic policies: the Pasok experiment in Greece

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Tsakalotos
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Social Democratic

The Political Economy of Famine: The Ukrainian Famine of 1933

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-197
Author(s):  
Natalya Naumenko
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Excess Deaths

The 1933 Ukrainian famine killed as many as 2.6 million people out of a population of 32 million. Historians offer three main explanations: weather, economic policies, genocide. This paper documents that (1) available data do not support weather as the main explanation: 1931 and 1932 weather predicts harvest roughly equal to the 1924–1929 average; weather explains up to 8.1 percent of excess deaths. (2) Policies (collectivization of agriculture and the lack of favored industries) significantly increased famine mortality; collectivization explains up to 52 percent of excess deaths. (3) There is some evidence that ethnic Ukrainians and Germans were discriminated against.

scholarly journals Germany After the Social Democratic Century: The Political Economy of Imbalance

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney A. Rothstein ◽  
Tobias Schulze-Cleven
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals The Political Economy of the European Economic and Monetary Union: Political Sources of an Economic Liability

1997 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Feldstein
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Economic And Monetary Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Structural Unemployment ◽  
Political Union ◽  
Political Sources ◽  
Trade And Investment

EMU would be an economic liability. A single currency would cause, at most, small trade and investment gains but would raise average cyclical unemployment and possibly raise inflation, perpetuate structural unemployment, and increase the risk of protectionism. EMU is nevertheless being pursued in order to create a political union. Fundamental disagreements among member states about economic policies, foreign and military policies, and the sharing of political power are likely to create future intra-European conflicts. A United Europe would be a formidable participant in the twenty-first century's global balance of power, with uncertain consequences for world stability and peace.

The Political Economy of Commercial Associations: Building the National Board of Trade, 1840–1868

2014 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-783
Author(s):  
Cory Davis
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
National Board ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Commercial Organizations

This article argues that, in the mid-nineteenth century, the American merchant community created local commercial organizations to propagate a vision of economic development based on republican ideals. As part of a “business revolution,” these organizations attempted to balance competition and cooperation in order to promote and direct the expansion of national markets and commercial activity throughout the country. Faced with the crisis of divergent sectional political economies and committed to the belief that businessmen needed a stronger political voice, merchant groups banded together to form the National Board of Trade, an association devoted to creating a unified commercial interest and shaping national economic policies.

Global Capital Disguised as Sustainability in Post-Earthquake Haiti

2018 ◽  
pp. 182-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiran C. Jayaram
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Disaster Capitalism ◽  
Development Plans

This chapter offers a staggering critique of post-earthquake development plans in Haiti. In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, Haiti became an example of disaster capitalism in action. Kiran Jayaram argues that the idea of sustainability, as in new plans for mango production, has been co-opted, becoming code for the continuation of exploitative economic policies within the political economy.

The Internal and External Face of New Labour's Political Economy

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Coates ◽  
Colin Hay
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
External Face ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines

To Grasp Fully The Nature And Significance Of The Economic policies at the heart of dominant political projects, those policies have to be studied in the round. They have to be grasped as complex totalities which touch all aspects of the political agenda; and they have to be seen as constructed and contested wholes, whose contradictions, internal inconsistencies and conceptual limits are as vital to their trajectory as are their axioms, theories and content. Academically and professionally, the study of policy in this rounded way is often a more difficult task to complete than might be expected, in part because of the powerful divisions within and between the intellectual disciplines which comprise the social sciences.

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