The Political Economy of Predation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of Predation write by Mehrdad Vahabi. This book was released on 2016. The Political Economy of Predation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.
Vital Enemies
Vital Enemies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vital Enemies write by Fernando Santos-Granero. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Vital Enemies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyzing slavery and other forms of servitude in six non-state indigenous societies of tropical America at the time of European contact, Vital Enemies offers a fascinating new approach to the study of slavery based on the notion of "political economy of life." Fernando Santos-Granero draws on the earliest available historical sources to provide novel information on Amerindian regimes of servitude, sociologies of submission, and ideologies of capture. Estimating that captive slaves represented up to 20 percent of the total population and up to 40 percent when combined with other forms of servitude, Santos-Granero argues that native forms of servitude fulfill the modern understandings of slavery, though Amerindian contexts provide crucial distinctions with slavery as it developed in the American South. The Amerindian understanding of life forces as being finite, scarce, unequally distributed, and in constant circulation yields a concept of all living beings as competing for vital energy. The capture of human beings is an extreme manifestation of this understanding, but it marks an important element in the ways Amerindian "captive slavery" was misconstrued by European conquistadors. Illuminating a cultural facet that has been widely overlooked or miscast for centuries, Vital Enemies makes possible new dialogues regarding hierarchies in the field of native studies, as well as a provocative re-framing of pre- and post-contact America.
Crisis and Predation
Crisis and Predation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis and Predation write by The Research Unit for Political Economy. This book was released on 2020-11-15. Crisis and Predation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship. Crisis and Predation shows how this tight-fistedness stems from the fact that global financial interests oppose any sizable expansion of public spending by India, and that Indian rulers readily adhere to their guidance. The authors reveal that global investors and a handful of top Indian corporate groups actually benefit from the resulting demand depression: armed with funds, they are picking up valuable assets at distress prices. Meanwhile, under the banner of reviving private investment, India’s rulers have planned giant privatizations, and drastically revised laws concerning industrial labor, the peasantry, and the environment—in favor of large capital. And yet, this book contends, India could defy the pressures of global finance in order to address the basic needs of its people. But this would require shedding reliance on foreign capital flows, and taking a course of democratic national development. This, then, is a pursuit, not for India’s ruling classes, but a course of struggle for India's people.
The Predator State
The Predator State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Predator State write by James K. Galbraith. This book was released on 2009-05-12. The Predator State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now available in paperback, this timely book challenges the cult of the free market that has dominated all political and economic discussion since the Reagan revolution. Even many liberals have felt the need to genuflect before the altar of free markets, but in The Predator State, progressive economist James K. Galbraith suggests that, under the Bush administration, conservatives have clearly abandoned the Reagan dogma and replaced it with crony capitalism. Tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and such schemes as privatizing Social Security would divert the national treasury into private hands and give rise to "The Predator State." The real economy, Galbraith argues, has never been entirely free of government support. Indeed, he says, much of our prosperity over the decades has been the result of a mix of private enterprise and public institutions, dating back to the New Deal. While conservatives have paid lip service to free markets as the solution to everything from health care to global warming, it is clear from the current banking and Wall Street upheavals that a lack of federal regulation has led to disaster. With witty insight, Galbraith makes it clear that we live in the age of predation. He sounds the warning bell, but also points the way to a more prosperous and progressive future.
Property, Predation, and Protection
Property, Predation, and Protection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Property, Predation, and Protection write by Stanislav Markus. This book was released on 2015-02-05. Property, Predation, and Protection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes the threats to the property rights of business owners and investigates what makes these rights secure.
