The Political Economy of Violence: The War-System in Colombia

1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazih Richani
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Violence, in its criminal and political aspects, largely reflects the contradictory impulses set in motion by modernization and serves as an expression of the various dislocations — social, economic, psychological and cultural — which accompany that process. Violence increases when the prevailing institutions fail to mediate among the various antagonistic forces unleashed by socio-economic and political change. Colombia represents a country where violence has risen overwhelmingly in recent years, reaching extremes of both extent and duration. A phenomenon well worth scholarly attention, the subject of violence has given rise to an impressive body of literature concerned with exploring its many aspects: its causes, trajectory, and variety of manifestations (see Sánchez, 1991).

The Political Economy of Debt

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Menz
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
The Political ◽  
Private Debt ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The explosive rise in not just public, but also private debt has recently attracted more scholarly attention. This is a novel development and might expose politico-economic models of governance to instability from an angle previously underappreciated. The liberalization of credit access in the Anglo-American countries, and, somewhat later, beyond those, might be seen as liberating for some, but they also create the potential for entrapment in debt. The term ‘privatized Keynesianism’ has been proposed to suggest a systematic agenda behind the facilitated access to lending. In this chapter, the broader access to investment vehicles is also being scrutinized, although upon closer inspection any claims of mass ownership of shares turn out not to be tenable.

The digital potlatch: The uses of uselessness in the digital economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1947-1966
Author(s):  
Michael Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communicative Capitalism

Drawing on the century-long preoccupation with premodern or “primitive” economic forms that has shaped the social sciences, this essay argues that the political economy of social networking platforms is structured like a potlatch. Understanding this structure and its dynamics is indispensable for grasping the social, economic and cultural preconditions and implications of communicative capitalism.

The Political Economy of ‘Radical’ Policy: An Analysis of the Scottish Daily News Worker Co-operative

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Bradley ◽  
Alan Gelb
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Government Support ◽  
The Political ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Daily Telegraph ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Public Money

Within six months of taking office in February 1974 Labour had funded three worker co-operatives: Meriden, Kirkby Manufacturing and the Scottish Daily News (SDN). All three ventures were the subject of considerable economic and political controversy. The Conservatives attacked them as ‘wasteful projects’ which would only encourage ‘creeping militancy’; the Daily Telegraph referred to them as a ‘diet of sub-Trotskyism’. Michael Heseltine, Conservative spokesman for Industry, attacked Labour's support for the three co-operatives, suggesting that they encouraged ‘others to follow these illegal precedents, commit national resources to wasteful projects, and create a growing sense of injustice among the overwhelming majority of hardworking, law-abiding citizens who totally fail to understand why creeping militancy should attract government support at their expense’. There was criticism too from less obviously partisan sources: the Sixth Report of the Committee on Public Expenditure, for example, concluded that worker co-operatives were non-viable and thus a waste of public money.

scholarly journals POLITICAL ECONOMY AND ITS IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabiul Islam ◽  
Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani ◽  
Muhammad Fuad Othman ◽  
Laila Suriya Ahmad Apandi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Market ◽  
The Political ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Import Quotas

Purpose of the study: The aim of this study was to relate the political economy and its impact on trade and development of economy. One of the currently witnessed changes that strike out the most from previous years is the relatedness of each political economy aspect of the world. The dimension of economy can be found in different problems throughout the world and economy has become the most prioritized aspect in the 21st century. Methodology: The data for this study were obtained from existing literatures on political economy and trade as well. The methodology heavily relied on the existing previous literatures on the subject being dealt with. Results: The findings indicated that the government could decide to intervene in markets with the intention of limiting import or maximizing export. Trade barriers might be applied for the intention of limiting imports such as tariffs, import quotas, native gratified necessities, directorial strategies, and anti-dumping policies. Implications: Protectionist policies are being implemented by country by the means of protecting the local market from international market that might risk the industries inside the nation and might resulted in the depletion of the nation’s sovereignty rate. Protectionist policy can be considered as a barrier towards trade but is essential for the long run local industry.

scholarly journals Dollars for Pesos? The Political-Economy of Dollarization in Latin America

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
PAMELA K. STARR
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Policy Choice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stable Growth ◽  
Latin American Countries

ABSTRACT The capacity of dollarization to generate stable growth in Latin America despite occasional instability in the international financial system has been the subject of significant economic analysis in recent years. Yet very little attention has been afforded to the politics of the issue. This paper attempts to fill this void by looking at both the political and the economic factors which influence the policy effectiveness of dollarization. The paper reviews the theoretic and policy debate within which the dollarization question is situated and then develops an informal model of the political and economic variables which influence the viability of dollarization. It concludes that although dollarization may be the correct policy choice for some Latin American countries, it is unlikely to benefit the majority. Most Latin American countries would benefit more from directly addressing the forces know to promote economic instability.

scholarly journals Political Change Patterns of The Mataraman Society in Kediri

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-114
Author(s):  
Taufik Alamin ◽  
Darsono Wisadirana ◽  
Sanggar Kanto ◽  
Hilmy Mochtar ◽  
Sholih Mu'adi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Facts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Political Choices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Secondary Data Sources

Social political change in society is one of the social facts that cannot be avoided. The socio-political phenomenon is a dynamic and tentative situation. This research is oriented towards analyzing the political changes of the Mataraman society in Kediri. The method used is qualitative descriptive approach with case studies. Primary and secondary data sources are obtained from interviews and references, supporting documents are used as a tool in describing the subject of the study. The results showed that the political dynamics in Kediri influenced the changes in political patterns of the Mataraman society in Kediri. The powerful socio-culture of Matraman society is not faded with the changes in political choices occurred.

Concerning the Subject of the Political Economy of Socialism

1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
I. Brover
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Subject

England, the Caribbean, and the Settlement of Carolina

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Caribbean

Historians have undertaken a number of specific investigations concerning the social, economic and geographic backgrounds, as well as their motives for emigrating, of those men and women who emigrated from England to Massachusetts, Virginia and Barbados during the course of the seventeenth century. While they have discussed the origins of the South Carolina charter, described the social and political status of the eight proprietors, dissected the Fundamental Constitutions, and examined the means by which the successful settlement of 1670 was organized, historians have neglected to explore the social backgrounds of those men who emigrated directly from England to South Carolina during the colony's initial decades of settlement. In contrast, not only the political but also the social and economic backgrounds of the Barbadian planters who colonized South Carolina have been the subject of a number of historical studies.

Response 1: “For We Had Hugged the Delusion…”

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
James L. Huston
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Equal Chance ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
The Subject ◽  
George Iii

I wish to thank the editors of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era for giving me a chance to react to Richard Schneirov's engaging article on periodizing the Gilded Age. I tend to agree with his generalizations and approach to the subject, having only some small qualifications to offer, largely concerning the quest for periodization, the timing of the break from one type of society to another, and the role of the Civil War. It seems that modern historians have revised somewhat the comment of George III to Edward Gibbons, “Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbons?” Now it has become, “Quibble, quibble, quibble, eh, Mr. Historian?” Well, such seems to be our fate. However, on one interpretation there is no quibbling at all: somewhere in the years called the Gilded Age came the mightiest transition that the society of the United States has ever experienced. The quote in the title of this short piece attests to the realization that such was the case: it is from the Brahmin historian, James Ford Rhodes writing about the Great Railroad Strike of 1877: “For we had hugged the delusion that such social uprisings belonged to Europe and had no reason of being in a free republic where there was plenty of room and an equal chance for all.” The political economy inherited from the Revolution had failed, and it was beginning to be recognized that a new political economy was emerging.

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