scholarly journals Old Ways in a Changing Space: The Issue of Camel Pastoralism in Dhofar

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Ali Tigani ElMahi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Land Value ◽  
Subsistence Economy ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
Grazing System ◽  
Pastoral Management ◽  
Free Grazing ◽  
Camel Pastoralism

In the Arabian Peninsula, the Dhofar region is rich in camels. This national wealth has always been administered by traditional nomadic pastoral management, which must have evolved in Oman with the introduction of camels as domesticates in prehistoric times. In this region, camels have always depended on the free grazing system which is governed by tribal territoriality. Today, Dhofar is experiencing an extensive process of development. Land value has increased immensely, to the extent that it cannot be used for camel pastoralism. Furthermore, traditional camel management has always been directed to meet requirements of a subsistence economy. It has never managed to convert to the organization of political economy. This paper intends to raise the alarm that national wealth is endangered by certain challenges. The paper proposes certain ideas that might assist in safeguarding and investing in a national asset.

scholarly journals Change in the political economy of land value capture in England

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Catney ◽  
John Henneberry
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Value ◽  
Value Capture

scholarly journals Relative Impact and Analysis of Composition of Goat Milk by Stall-Feeding System and Rearing with Grazing System of Goats

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 (08) ◽  
Author(s):  
PB Surner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Goat Milk ◽  
Feeding System ◽  
Feed Supplement ◽  
Milk Products ◽  
Grazing System ◽  
Grazing Systems ◽  
Free Grazing ◽  
Fat Soluble Vitamins ◽  
Milk Minerals ◽  
Feeding Systems

In many regions of the world, goat milk and its milk products have played a major role in economic viability, particularly in developing countries like India. In terms of getting milk products high in minerals and other protein, the importance of free grazing still prevails and is preferred over stall feeding, but both ways are good in general. With the importance of the above in mind, an approach has been taken in the current study to compare the yield of milk from goats using a stall-feeding system and a free grazing system. Our findings show that milk minerals such as Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium, and Sodium are higher in stall-feeding goat systems than in free grazing systems because stall-feeding provides a computed ration – Minerals, Common salt, mineral mixture, concentrate feeding, feed additives, and feed supplement. As a result, milk minerals are higher in stall-feeding goat systems than in free grazing goat systems. Lactose levels are higher in stall-feeding systems than in open grazing systems because leguminous feeds like as lucerne and bersim grasses, as well as green forages, are used. Because they graze freely in the environment and consume various types of feeds, fat percentage is higher in the free grazing system of goats than in the stall-feeding system. Since stall-feeding systems provide feed supplement and concentrate feeding, fat soluble vitamins are higher in stall-feeding systems than in free grazing systems, which is why fat-soluble vitamins are higher in stall-feeding systems of goats.

scholarly journals Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Kavanagh ◽  
Kalind Parish ◽  
Somya Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Policy Adoption ◽  
Ethnic Stratification ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
Treatment Policies ◽  
And Diffusion

Why do some countries rapidly adopt policies suggested by scientific consensus while others are slow to do so? Through a mixed methods study, we show that the institutional political economy of countries is a stronger and more robust predictor of health policy adoption than either disease burden or national wealth. Our findings challenge expectations in scholarship and among many international actors that policy divergence is best addressed through greater evidence and dissemination channels. Our study of HIV treatment policies shows that factors such as the formal structures of government and the degree of racial and ethnic stratification in society predict the speed with which new medical science is translated into policy, while level of democracy does not. This provides important new insights about the drivers of policy transfer and diffusion and suggests new paths for practical efforts to secure adoption of ‘evidence-based’ policies.

Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Mirowski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
Classical Notion ◽  
Static Allocation ◽  
David Ricardo

Once upon a time, say around the era of David Ricardo and Karl Marx, political economy was primarily concerned with the production of national wealth. This “classical” notion tended to hang on long into the twentieth century, well after the invention of neoclassical economics in the 1870s. Nevertheless, there was no denying that within neoclassical economics, exchange had displaced production as the primary topic of interest. But subsequently, something rather extraordinary happened around the middle of the twentieth century, gaining momentum as the century waned. More and more, economics at the cutting edge became relatively cavalier about treating trade as static allocation. This article endeavors to point out that all major existing modern traditions of the Economics of Knowledge have encountered their comeuppance solely from within, leading various economists to concede that their own constructions of the epistemology of the agent were structurally incoherent.

The Political Economy of Antoine De Montchretien (Toward the 400th Anniversary of «Traicté de l’économie politique»)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Maya Sloudkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Natural Product ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Domestic Literature ◽  
National Wealth ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Ideal

A. de Montchretien is known mainly by the fact that in 1615 coined the term «political economy», which became the name of science. The purpose of this publication is to consider what the author puts in this concept. At this angle the first time in the domestic literature was analyzed «Treatise on political economy» by A. de Montchretien (used the publication of 1889 in the edition T. Funk-Brentano). The article shows that Montchretien uses the phrase «political economy» for the presentation of a set of rules of economic activity across the state. The ideal of Montchretien – economically active people, honest and hardworking and the country, similar to a well-managed company. In his treatise the author tries to answer the main questions of political economy – what is national wealth, where is its source and what are the methods to increase it? An analysis of his book leads to the conclusion that he came to an understanding of wealth as a natural product created by labor. This allows to put Montchretien between mercantilists and economists of the classical school of political economy.

Key Issues in the Political Economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Hanieh
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Gulf Cooperation Council ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Oil Markets ◽  
Key Issues

The six Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies—Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman—hold a distinctive position in the Middle East. Located on the strategically significant Arabian Peninsula, they rank among the most important producers of oil and gas in the world. This chapter examines some of the key political economy issues in the Gulf, including the role of the region’s hydrocarbon production within global oil markets, debates around the nature of state and class in the Gulf, and the Gulf’s growing political and economic influence on the wider Middle East. The possible implications of these dynamics for the Gulf’s future trajectories—and those of the wider Middle East—are surveyed.

Turning land into capital? The expansion and extraction of value in Laos

2021 ◽  
pp. 0308518X2110634
Author(s):  
Miles Kenney-Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Government Revenue ◽  
Land Value ◽  
Real Form ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Economic

Since 2006, the government of Laos has pursued a policy of “Turning Land into Capital”, which broadly refers to the generation of economic value from the marketization of land, producing not only profit but also government revenue and economic development. The policy's ambiguity raises questions regarding the precise political-economic processes at work and what exactly the transformation of land into capital might mean. Building on Marxist theorizations of land, value, capital, and rent, this paper argues that land under capitalism does not only operate as a rent-bearing asset, in which value is extracted from elsewhere. Land can also be treated as a real form of capital, or capitalized, when its social relations are transformed to facilitate value expansion and act as a store of value mobilized for further investment. It is imperative to investigate how land is used to expand value as capital, extract value as rent, or do both. This paper examines four manifestations of the Turning Land into Capital policy to outline the contours of struggles and contestations over the production and distribution of value in the Lao political economy.

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