scholarly journals A Reflection on China’s Economic Reform from the Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-476
Author(s):  
Zhe Gao
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Social Teaching ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Liberty ◽  
Liberal Economy ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract It has been nearly four decades since China initiated its economic reform in 1978. In spite of the fact that this reform has brought unprecedented economic growth to China, it is viewed by many (including myself) as problematic and has recently been caught in a tension between recession and inequity. This article explores the structural flaws of China’s economic reforms in the light of modern Catholic social teaching, with particular reference to the basic theological principles it applies within the political-economic spheres. On the basis of the Catholic understanding of economic liberty, market, government, and equity, this article furnishes a public theological agenda for China’s economic reforms, in order to help resolve the problems they are facing. Meanwhile, based on the same theological standpoint, it also provides a critical assessment of the New Left’s negation of the liberal economy.

Syria’s Passage to Conflict

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shamel Azmeh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
Syrian Conflict ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Syria’s descent into conflict is receiving growing scholarly attention. On their own, the sectarian and geopolitical interpretations of the Syrian conflict provide us with little understanding of the roots of the conflict. Recent studies have started to unpack the political economic and socioeconomics aspects of the conflict, highlighting issues such as the economic reforms in the 2000s, rising inequality, and climate change. This article aims to contribute to this growing literature by placing these issues in a broader analysis of Syria’s political and economic institutions. It argues that the movement of 2011 should be seen as an unorganized protest movement driven by the consolidation and institutionalization of multisectarian elite rule through the economic reform process that started in the 2000s, following the expiration of the “developmental rentier fix” that had ensured authoritarian stability in Syria in earlier decades.

The Politics of Communist Economic Reform

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Padgett
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Network Dynamics ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mikhail Gorbachev ◽  
East European ◽  
Social Network Dynamics ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter compares the political, economic, and social-network dynamics of major economic reform campaigns within communism itself by Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Over their histories, Soviet, Chinese, and East European communisms frequently had tried to reform themselves economically in a wide variety of ways. The dynamics of economic reform in the climactic 1980s were not as different from what had preceded it as is commonly assumed. It was the outcome more than the process that differed. Hence, the chapter analyzes the transition from communism to “capitalism” not from the outside perspective of capitalism but from the internal perspective of communism.

Financialization: critical assessment based on Catholic social teaching

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Edward J. O'Boyle ◽  
Stefano Solari ◽  
GianDemetrio Marangoni
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Social Teaching ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Social Teaching

The Winding Road of Direct Investments

2003 ◽  
pp. 73-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Starodubrovsky
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Political ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Working Out

The problem of economic growth perspectives in Russia is the most actual one both in the political, economic and social aspects. Obviously, the possibility of avoiding the stagnation first of all depends on effective investments. After a long and deep depression almost all industries could increase the production for some time by means of better utilization of productive capacities. This offered time for working out the development projects and creating the investment basis of growth. Has this possibility been realized? The analysis shows that investment activity is aimed not at overcoming but at fixing of the structural diseases of the Russian economy and stagnation of the processing industries.

scholarly journals Memahami Kebijakan Ekonomi Politik Tiga Khalifah (Sebuah Kajian Historis Tiga Fase Peradaban Islam)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayief Fathurrahman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The People ◽  
Economic Politics ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Dimensions Of Space

One thing that needs to be understood is that every result of human thought is always historical, tied to the space and time around it. The economic policies issued by Umar ibn Khat}t}a>b, Umar ibn Abdul Azi>z and Ghazan Khan must have certain truths in accordance with the dimensions of space and the cycle of time. However, the form of policy is an effort to solve the problems of the State, especially the economic sector that occurred in the middle of their leadership period. This article aims to examine the political economic thought of three caliphs, namely Umar ibn Khat}t}a>b, Umar ibn Abdul Azi>z, and Ghazan Khan with a historical approach. Political economic policy decided by Umar ibn Khat}t}a>b, Umar ibn Abdul Azi>z, and Ghazan Khan has a character that is flexible. It means however its method, during its goal to create welfare for the people and not in conflict with al-Quran and al-Sunnah, then that policy is applied. This was apparent when some of their policies are not always same as Prophet’s policy, even differ from each other, but with that difference, the world has recorded them as a brilliant decision maker. The policy of the three caliphs teaches us the ultimate determinants of the economic policy of the meaning of welfare (mas}lah}ah) which form the basis of the formulation of one policy. Rigid economic system will only become a separate boomerang for economic growth itself. Because the true that the holy economic goal is not economic growth, but the welfare of mankind as perpetrators of economic activity in this hemisphere. Keywords: Islam, Economic-Politics, Flexible, Welfare

After the Fall: Prospects for Political and Institutional Reform in Post‐Crisis Thailand and the Philippines

1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hutchcroft
Keyword(s):  
Economic Reform ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Bureaucratic Agencies ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Rates Of Growth ◽  
Economic Foundations

Since the late-1980s, efforts to consolidate democracy in Thailand and the Philippines have been accompanied by marked contrasts both in levels of developmental success and degrees of subsequent economic decline. In Thailand, extraordinary rates of growth in the decade prior to 1997 were followed by dramatic contraction; in the Philippines, the more modest and short-lived gains of the mid-1990s have been followed by economic standstill but not cataclysmic crash. Despite the major differences in the political economic foundations and economic performance of these two economies, Thailand and the Philippines currently face many common challenges of supplementing earlier neoliberal economic reform with the more daunting tasks of political and institutional reform. In particular, this brief and synoptic analysis will argue, both confront the need to enhance the quality of their democracies and the capacity of key bureaucratic agencies.

Welchen Einfluss hat das Humankapital auf das Wirtschaftswachstum?

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan Nguyen ◽  
Matthias Pfleiderer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
School Education ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
The Political ◽  
Qualitative Factors ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Quantity Of Education

SummaryIn the empirical research of economic growth, different kinds of measuring factors (quantitative and qualitative) are used for the measurement of human resources. In this essay, we deal with the question which influence on economic growth the quantitative and qualitative measuring factors of human resources have and whether possible correlations can be proved empirically. Furthermore, the political-economic question is analyzed whether the quantity of education should be increased or measures to improve the education quality should be used. We find out that also non-economic, qualitative factors make an important contribution to the improvement of school education and with that the country’s economic development.

Rearticulating Contemporary Populism

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bray
Keyword(s):  
Critical Assessment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Popular Politics ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Historical Materialist ◽  
The People ◽  
Manual Labour ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Labour Division ◽  
Political Economic

Oriented, descriptively, by recent liberal definitions of populism, this essay pursues a historical-materialist definition that grounds populist antagonisms in class struggles as ‘crystallised’ in the capitalist state. A critical assessment of Laclau’s early equation of populism and socialism inaugurates the reading of Poulantzas’s relational account of class and state as a nascent framework for a theory of populism, centred on the state and its ideological crystallisation of individualisation, the mental/manual-labour division and the ‘people-nation’. This framework is then expanded to articulate the political-economic core of populist antagonisms, the specific character of ‘neoliberal populism’ today, and the potential, in relation to theories of ‘popular politics’ and a ‘communist people’, that left-wing populism might hold as a process of new political productions of class. This reading provides for a more expansive account of such movements’ potentials, beyond a threat to or correction of pre-determined democratic or Marxist schemas.

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