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  • From Plan to Market

    The Economic Transition in Vietnam

    by Adam Fforde ...
    This clear and accessible text explores Vietnam's successful transition from neo-Stalinist central planning to a market economy—\"Vietnamese style.\" After describing the north Vietnamese system prior to 1975 and its colonial and precolonial antecedents, the authors uncover the mechanisms of that changeover. They contend that the Vietnamese transition was largely bottom-up in character and that it ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Understanding Development Economics

    Its Challenge to Development Studies

    by Adam Fforde ...
    Series series Economics as Social Theory
    Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence, a tension has arisen between the claims made by Development Economics to be a scientific, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Reinventing Development

    The Sceptical Change Agent

    by Adam Fforde ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy. The author questions the predictability of success when using mainstream development doctrines and its underlying assumptions, approaching development from a sceptical standpoint, as opposed to the more common optimistic view. The book uses international development and aid as a case study of how rich countries ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Agrarian Question in North Vietnam, 1974-79

    by Adam Fforde ...
    This volume investigates why peasants defend themselves against the predations of politics by using such "everyday" forms of protest as footdragging, feigned ignorance, false compliance, etc. With a cross-section of countries, historical time periods, and ideologies, the case studies illustrate the variety of forms of everyday peasant resistance and their consequences. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Limits of National Liberation

    Problems of Economic Management in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, with a Statistical Appendix

    by Adam Fforde, Suzanne H. Paine ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in Vietnam
    This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war. It chronicles the impact of war and Socialist Construction upon an extremely poor area left undeveloped by French colonial exploitation. The analysis focuses on the severe restraints that faced socio-economic development in North Vietnam, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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    by Neil Fligstein, Doug McAdam ...
    Finding ways to understand the nature of social change and social order-from political movements to market meltdowns-is one of the enduring problems of social science. A Theory of Fields draws together far-ranging insights from social movement theory, organizational theory, and economic and political sociology to construct a general theory of social organization and strategic action. In a work of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Vietnam

    by Bill Hayton ...

    $15.99 USD

  • Capital and Time

    For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason

    by Martijn Konings ...
    Series series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
    Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major economic crises? To make sense of this, Capital and Time advances an understanding of economy as a ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Moral Economy of the Peasant

    Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

    by Professor James C. Scott ...

    $19.99 USD

  • Amartya Sen

    Edited by Christopher W. Morris ...
    Series series Contemporary Philosophy in Focus
    Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1998 'for his contributions in welfare economics'. Although his primary academic appointments have been mostly in economics, Sen is also an important and influential social theorist and philosopher. His work on social choice theory is seminal, and his writings on poverty, famine, and development, as well his contributions to moral ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • States and Markets

    by Susan Strange ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    '[States and Markets] should be read by every student of international political economy.' - International Relations Theory.Susan Strange was one of the most influential international relations scholars of the latter half of the twentieth century. She is regarded by many as the creator of the discipline of international political economy (IPE) and leaves behind an impressive body of work. States ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Models of Political Economy

    by Hannu Nurmi ...
    Models of Political Economy will introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including:decision theorygame theorymechanism designgames of asymmetric information.Hannu Nurmi's text will prove to be invaluable to all students who wish to understand this increasingly technical field. ... Read more

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