Land, Labour, and Economic Discourse
Author: Keith Tribe
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Keith Tribe
Publisher: London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Todd S. Mei
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2017-01-15
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 081013408X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alarming environmental degradation makes ever more urgent the reconciliation of political economy and sustainability. Land and the Given Economy examines how the landed basis of human existence converges with economics, and it offers a persuasive new conception of land that transcends the flawed and inadequate accounts in classical and neoclassical economics. Todd S. Mei grounds this work in a rigorous review of problematic economic conceptions of land in the work of John Locke, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Henry George, Alfred Marshall, and Thorstein Veblen. Mei then draws on the thought of Martin Heidegger to posit a philosophical clarification of the meaning of land—its ontological nature. He argues that central to rethinking land is recognizing its unique manner of being, described as its "givenness." Concluding with a discussion of ground rent, Mei reflects on specific strategies for incorporating the philosophical account of land into contemporary economic policies. Revivifying economic frameworks that fail to resolve the impasse between economic development and sustainability, Land and the Given Economy offers much of interest to scholars and readers of philosophy, environmentalism, and the full spectrum of political economy.
Author: Kojo Amanor
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9789171064684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report is based on field work carried out in the Akyem Abuakwa area of the forest region of Ghana, a section of the country rich in agricultural land, gold, and diamonds. Through the field work which was undertaken and the empirical material generated, the author attempts to chart the processes and patterns of differentiation connected to land and land use in contemporary Ghana.
Author: Alice Thorner
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1843310708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contributed articles with special reference to India.
Author: Miles Ogborn
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1998-07-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781572303652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Register Office, this book examines the identities, practices, and power relations of the modern city as they emerged within and transformed the geographies of eighteenth-century London. Ogborn draws upon a wide variety of textual and visual sources to illuminate processes of commodification, individualization, state formation, and the transformation of the public sphere within the new spaces of the metropolis.
Author: Zoe Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-03-26
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0198858892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Labour and the Wage: A Critical Perspective offers a new perspective on why labour law struggles to respond to problems such as low pay and under-inclusive employment. A Marxian-inspired ontological approach sheds new light on the role of labour law in a capitalist economy and on the limitations and potential of labour law when it comes to bringing about social change. It illustrates this through the lens of the wage. The book develops a legal genealogy that explores the shifting portfolio of concepts through which the wage has been conceptualized in legal discourse as capitalism has developed. This exploration spans from the Norman Conquest to the present day, and covers diverse issues such as the decasualization of the docks, sweated labour, the truck system, tax-credits, tips, and minimum wages. Labour and the Wage provides one of the most in-depth and comprehensive analyses of the wage to date, while, at the same time, shedding new light on the contradictory role, or function, of labour law in the context of capitalism.
Author: Peter Wagner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-07-23
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0585291748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, which represents probably the most comprehensive discussion of the emergence of modem social science yet produced, is of far more than merely historical interest. The contributors set out to rewrite the history of the social sciences and to show the limitations of conventional conceptions of their development. These tasks they accomplish with great success and much distinction. Yet in so doing they contribute in a direct way to our understanding of the relation between social analysis and the nature of human societies today. The brilliant and distinctive perspective of the papers in this collection is to demonstrate, with many specific examples, that social science and modem institutions have helped shape each other in mutual interplay. Modem systems are in some part con stituted through the reflexive incorporation of developing social science knowledge; on the other hand, the social sciences organise themselves in terms of a continuing reflection upon the evolution of those systems. Such a perspective, as Wagner and Wittrock in particular make clear, does not in any way either impugn the status of knowledge claims made within social science or destroy the independent reality of social institutions. The book questions the notion that the institutionalising of the social sciences can be understood as a process of their increasing autonomy from extemal social connections. 'Autonomy' forms a mode of legitima tion and a basis of power rather than a distinctive phenomenon as such.
Author: William James Booth
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 150172228X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What human purpose does an economy serve? In this pathbreaking book, William James Booth examines what he calls the moral architecture of the economy—its significance in our ethical world and the influence of social values on its institutions. Turning to the most fundamental economic unit, Booth explores three basic conceptions of the household—the Aristotelian, the classic liberal, and the Marxist.
Author: Thomas Boylan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-08
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1134920407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a bitterly divided 19th century Ireland, consensus was sought in the new discipline of political economy which claimed to transcend all divisions. This book explores the failure of that mission in the wake of the great famine of 1846-7.
Author: Ellen Messer-Davidow
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780813914282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Anyone interested in the relationship between disciplines--and today this means everyone--should read this collection, which is itself a model of interdisciplinarity.' -Stanley Fish, Duke University