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Author: Mats Ingulstad Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317816110 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in the southern hemisphere, while the main centers of consumption were in the industrialized north. The tin trade was therefore a highly politically charged economy in which states and private enterprise competed and cooperated to assert control over deposits, smelters and markets. Tin provides a particularly telling illustration of how the interactions of business and governments shape the evolution of the global economic trade; the tin industry has experienced extensive state intervention during times of war, encompasses intense competition and cartelization, and has seen industry centers both thrive and fail in the wake of decolonization. The history of the international tin industry reveals the complex interactions and interdependencies between local actors and international networks, decolonization and globalization, as well as government foreign policies and entrepreneurial tactics. By highlighting the global struggles for control and the constantly shifting economic, geographical and political constellations within one specific industry, this collection of essays brings the state back into business history, and the firm into the history of international relations.
Author: Mats Ingulstad Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317816110 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
For most of the twentieth century tin was fundamental for both warfare and welfare. The importance of tin is most powerfully represented by the tin can - an invention which created a revolution in food preservation and helped feed both the armies of the great powers and the masses of the new urban society. The trouble with tin was that economically viable deposits of the metal could only be found in a few regions of the world, predominantly in the southern hemisphere, while the main centers of consumption were in the industrialized north. The tin trade was therefore a highly politically charged economy in which states and private enterprise competed and cooperated to assert control over deposits, smelters and markets. Tin provides a particularly telling illustration of how the interactions of business and governments shape the evolution of the global economic trade; the tin industry has experienced extensive state intervention during times of war, encompasses intense competition and cartelization, and has seen industry centers both thrive and fail in the wake of decolonization. The history of the international tin industry reveals the complex interactions and interdependencies between local actors and international networks, decolonization and globalization, as well as government foreign policies and entrepreneurial tactics. By highlighting the global struggles for control and the constantly shifting economic, geographical and political constellations within one specific industry, this collection of essays brings the state back into business history, and the firm into the history of international relations.
Author: Mats Ingulstad Publisher: ISBN: 9780415737050 Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Languages : en Pages : 0
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This collection uses the tin industry as a prism through which to examine the changing global political economy. It engages with ongoing debates about control and access to natural resources and highlights the complex interactions and roles of business and government in the global economic trade.
Author: Leo Panitch Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1781684413 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 605
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The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state intervention to stay afloat, it has become clear that markets and states aren't straightforwardly opposing forces. In this groundbreaking work, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin demonstrate the intimate relationship between modern capitalism and the American state. The Making of Global Capitalism identifies the centrality of the social conflicts that occur within states rather than between them. These emerging fault lines hold out the possibility of new political movements that might transcend global markets.
Author: Jeffry A. Frieden Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 1324004207 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 807
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"One of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914–45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008.
Author: William I. Robinson Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107067472 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 257
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This book discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control.
Author: Frederick S. Weaver Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442208899 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 189
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Information about the financial world is impossible to ignore in today's depressed global economy. Every day, media outlets bombard us with news and possible explanations for the financial crisis. In The United States and the Global Economy, Frederick Weaver gives readers a concise introduction to the patterns of change in international financial and trade regimes since World War II in order to deepen their understanding of recent global economic turmoil. Weaver has compiled a clear chronology of major events in the international economy to show how they have reflected and shaped changes in the domestic economy of the United States. Although American dominance over the world economy is not as complete as it once was, the United States' domestic economic processes continue to have profound effects on global economic affairs. In addition, Weaver takes this opportunity to familiarize readers with the vocabulary of key elements of international economic analysis and their relationships, such as the differences between balances of trade and balances of payments; foreign direct investment and foreign portfolio investment; and the meaning of most-favored-nation agreements. The United States and the Global Economy is a concise, informative book thatis of interest to anyone seeking to understand the history behind the current financial situation.
Author: Robert J. S. Ross Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438418051 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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How have global markets and global manufacturing changed the balance of social, economic and political power? With this volume Ross and Trachte challenge existing political-economic theory. In concise terms they show how traditional theories of monopoly capitalism and world systems are not well-suited to analyze the emergence of global capitalism. This book, in a series of case studies of U.S. metropolitan areas, examines the dramatic transformation of the world economy in the last two decades. The book's last section examines political strategy and the political theory implied by the heightened power of capital.
Author: Brink Lindsey Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0471206652 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 351
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A refreshing, insightful look into the political and economicdynamics driving globalization today Globalization: it's earlier than you think. That's the provocativemessage of Against the Dead Hand, which traces the rise and fall ofthe century-long dream of central planning and top-down control andits impact on globalization-revealing the extent to which the "deadhand" of the old collectivist dream still shapes the contours oftoday's world economy. Mixing historical narrative,thought-provoking arguments, and on-the-scene reporting andinterviews, Brink Lindsey shows how the economy has grown up amidstthe wreckage of the old regime-detailing how that wreckageconstrains the present and obscures the future. He conveys aclearer picture of globalization's current state than the currentconventional wisdom, providing a framework for anticipating thefuture direction of the world economy.
Author: Mats Ingulstad
Author: Mats Ingulstad
Author: Mats Ingulstad
Author: Leo Panitch
Author: Jeffry A. Frieden
Author: William I. Robinson
Author: William I. Robinson
Author: Frederick S. Weaver
Author: Robert J. S. Ross
Author: Brink Lindsey
Author: Henk Overbeek