scholarly journals Livelihood, Market and State: What does A Political Economy Predicated on the ‘Individual-in-Group-in-PLACE’ Actually Look Like?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4082 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Quilley ◽  
Katharine Zywert
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
High Energy ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Welfare Systems ◽  
Market State ◽  
State And Market ◽  
The Individual

Ecological economics has relied too much on priorities and institutional conventions defined by the high energy/throughput era of social democracy. Future research should focus on the political economy of a survival unit (Elias) based upon Livelihood as counterbalance to both State and Market. Drawing on the work of Polanyi, Elias, Gellner and Ong, capitalist modernization is analyzed in terms of the emergence of a society of individuals and the replacement of the survival units of place-bound bound family and community by one in which the State acts in concert with the Market. The operation of welfare systems is shown to depend upon ongoing economic growth and a continual flow of fiscal resources. The politics of this survival unit depends upon high levels of mutual identification and an affective-cognitive ‘we imaginary’. Increasing diversity, a political rejection of nationalism as a basis for politics and limits to economic growth, are likely to present an existential threat to the State–Market survival unit. A reversal of globalization, reconsolidation of the nation-state, a reduction in the scope of national and global markets and the expansion of informal processes of manufacture and distribution may provide a plausible basis for a hybrid Livelihood–Market–State survival unit. The politics of such a reorientation would straddle the existing left–right divide in disruptive and unsettling ways. Examples are given of pre-figurative forms of reciprocation and association that may be indicative of future arrangements.

Researching Telework

2000 ◽  
pp. 255-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole B. Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the state of the art in telework research. The author reviews the most central scholarly literature examining the phenomenon of telework (also called home-based work or telecommuting) and develops a framework for organizing this body of work. She organizes previous research on telework into six major thematic concerns relating to the definition, measurement, and scope of telework; management of teleworkers; travel-related impacts of telework; organizational culture and employee isolation; boundaries between “home” and “work” and the impact of telework on the individual and the family. Areas for future research are suggested.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Mike Allen ◽  
Lars Benjaminsen ◽  
Eoin O’Sullivan ◽  
Nicholas Pleace
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
The State ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Political ◽  
Administrative Culture ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State And Market ◽  
The Individual

Chapter 7 draws together some of the lessons that can be learned from the experiences of three small European countries in responding to homelessness. It is clear that responses to homelessness are embedded and enmeshed in the political and administrative culture of the individual countries, particularly the role of the state, both centrally and locally, in the provision of housing, welfare, and social services. Homelessness cannot be responded to as a separate issue from this broader context, and this is particularly the case in Finland and Ireland, where the roles of the state and market are understood very differently.

How is Food Political? Market, State, and Knowledge

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Herring
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Food Provisioning ◽  
Political Market ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Market State ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Global Food

A political economy of food is, somewhat ironically, especially dependent on politics of ideas. Food as commodity certainly exhibits familiar forces of contention in political economy—the relative weights of interests contesting boundaries between state and market—but generates a distinctive politics for interrelated reasons. First, the urgency of food provisioning reflects biological necessity, not mere preference. Consequently, production and distribution animate a politics of security, rights, and social justice, and thereby special potential for collective action and contentious politics. Second, food engages deeply held cultural norms and ethical standards that transcend the politics of interest characteristic of less charged commodities. Finally, a looming sense of crisis and uncertainty in sustainability of global food production has made technical discourses dependent on expertise and science more indispensable but simultaneously more contentious—and transnational in scope. Expertise looms ever larger but has not depoliticized the production, consumption, and distribution of food.

Citizenship and New Technologies

2005 ◽  
pp. 414-419
Author(s):  
Peter J. Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Smythe
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Capitalist Economy ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Individual

Not long ago globalization had only one face, that of a restructured capitalist economy employing new information technologies to operate on a global scale (Castells, 2000). According to this interpretation of globalization, the global is represented as space dominated by the inexorable and homogenizing logic of global markets (Steger, 2002). In this neoliberal model, the market replaces the state and the individual, the community thus posing a bleak future for citizenship.

scholarly journals Organizational Culture and Work Stress among Bank Employees

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarath, P. ◽  
Manikandan, K
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
The State ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Individual Productivity ◽  
Bank Employees ◽  
The Individual

Banking sector is one of the most powerful financial management agencies which have a major role in the economic growth of India. Each bank has its own culture, as every organization different in their culture. Organizational Culture includes everything that influences an employee in an organization. This may reflect in their stress levels, which may in turn reflect in the individual productivity as well as the organizational. In the literature, there were different studies of organizational culture and work stress among bank employees, but very few studies which tried to explore the relation between organizational culture and work stress in India especially in the state of Kerala. This study was intended to find the nature of organizational culture and work stress of banks employees of northern Kerala.

What We Owe One Another

2019 ◽  
pp. 199-212
Author(s):  
Sarah L. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Financial Transactions

This concluding chapter summarizes the main points of the book, points out areas for future research, and draws connections with later developments in securitization and credit programs leading up to the crash of 2007–2008. It also argues that understandings of the limits and possibilities of what people owe to each other and can expect from the state are written into the designs of financial instruments. These understandings help determine the distribution of profits and risks within specific financial transactions. This matters because the distributional politics of credit plays out simultaneously on the level of how credit fits within a political economy and on the level of specific exchanges and loans. The issue, in other words, is not just whether the people of a nation generally use credit to pay for housing or college, but the terms built into those loans. What people do in financial markets, what those financial markets are expected to do—together these dynamics make up the social life of credit in a nation.

Liberalism and the State: Economic Growth and the Inequality

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-159
Author(s):  
Victor A. Volkonsky ◽  
Yuri N. Gavrilets ◽  
Alexander V. Kudrov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Indicator ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Main Thing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Main Barrier

The article provides a critical comparison of two opposing views on the socio-economic development of Russia: radical liberal and socio-state ideology. The reason for the comparison was the report of Professor V. V. Kossov at a meeting (December 6, 2019) of the International Organizational Sciences Academy (IOSN) (“Barriers to Russia’s Economic Growth”), which stated that the main barrier to economic growth in Russia was government interference in economic activity and insufficient respect for private property in the population. The article shows on statistical data that, firstly, GDP growth should not be considered the main indicator of a country’s success, and secondly, it is the weakness of the state that actually hinders socio-economic development. It is shown that such problems as the elimination of poverty and inequality cannot be solved without the active participation of the state. The main thing is not economic growth and direct democracy, but the satisfaction of the interests of all social groups and the achievement of social justice. This position is supported by an appeal to the research results of many Western economists. Criticizing the liberal position, the authors of the article remain supporters of the free development of the individual and the society of equal opportunities.

scholarly journals Structural power and political science in the post-crisis era

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pepper D. Culpepper
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relation ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
New Generation

This essay highlights productive ways in which scholars have reanimated the concept of structural power to explain puzzles in international and comparative politics. Past comparative scholarship stressed the dependence of the state on holders of capital, but it struggled to reconcile this supposed dependence with the frequent losses of business in political battles. International relation (IR) scholars were attentive to the power of large states, but mainstream IR neglected the ways in which the structure of global capitalism makes large companies international political players in their own right. To promote a unified conversation between international and comparative political economy, structural power is best conceptualized as a set of mutual dependencies between business and the state. A new generation of structural power research is more attentive to how the structure of capitalism creates opportunities for some companies (but not others) vis-à-vis the state, and the ways in which that structure creates leverage for some states (but not others) to play off companies against each other. Future research is likely to put agents – both states and large firms – in the foreground as political actors, rather than showing how the structure of capitalism advantages all business actors in the same way against non-business actors.

scholarly journals Impact of government size and corruption on economic growth

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Nedra Baklouti ◽  
Younes Boujelbene
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The State ◽  
Mena Region ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Consumption Expenditures ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Government ◽  
The Individual

This paper examines the role of government in economic growth by extending the neoclassical production-function by incorporating two dimensions of government such as, the size and quality. The size is measured by general government final consumption expenditures. The quality of governance is measured by the index of perception of corruption which is being tested in 12 countries in the MENA region in the period between 1998 and 2011. Our empirical results indicate that when the public sector is "too big", economic growth is negatively affected and that the relationship between corruption and economic growth is significantly negative with the bad effects of this phenomenon that include a loss of revenue for the state in the benefit of the individual, the increased costs related to the conduct of the affairs of the state, an inefficient use of public spending and stifling economic growth in the region. We argued then, that investments in the capacity which strengthened governance are a priority for improving the growth of the countries examined.

scholarly journals STATE IN STABILIZATION OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NON-SAVING TERRITORIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2(67)) ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
KJIMIZ PEJUNK ◽  
OLEKSII KVILINSKIY
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
State Incentives

Topicality. The urgency of the problem of state incentives for the sustainable development of regions on the basis of economic freedom, property, rule of law and democracy is increasing in today's conditions of strengthening the role of such factors as globalization, competitiveness and innovation in the world. Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is to study theoretical, methodological and practical recommendations, which should justify the tools for improving the state incentives for the sustainable development of regions in Ukraine and Poland, taking into account the experience gained from the European Union countries. Research results. Research and practice show that the development and rates of economic growth in the country depend on the efficiency of public institutions. They are one of the most important variables that explain the differences in the rates of economic growth in the groups of developing and transforming countries. It was found that the decentralization of state functions means that it delegates its powers to the structures it establishes, one of which is a region with, inter alia, administrative rights. Therefore, the article provides a comparative analysis of the legal conditions for the sustainable development of the regions in the EU, Poland and Ukraine. It should be noted that both the basis for smart development and inclusive development are important, however, this study focuses on the components of sustainable development, and, therefore, the stimulation of an economy that effectively uses resources, while being environmentally friendly and more competitive. Conclusions. It was found that in all the analyzed countries, the planning documents on the regional level take into account the basic principles of the arrangement, development and land use taking into account historical, economic, ecological, demographic, ethnic and cultural features of the region. Prospects for future research in the field of state incentives for sustainable development of regions are related to the effective structure of the formation of the institutional environment of the state.

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