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Amy A Quark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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institutional mobility and mutation in the Global Capitalist System a neo polanyian analysis of a transnational cotton standards war 1870 1945
Environment and Planning A, 2013Co-Authors: Amy A QuarkAbstract:This paper explores the dynamics of institutional change in periods of instability in the Global Capitalist System. Two recent bodies of literature—actor-centered institutionalism and the ‘policy m...
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Institutional Mobility and Mutation in the Global Capitalist System: A Neo-Polanyian Analysis of a Transnational Cotton Standards War, 1870–1945
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013Co-Authors: Amy A QuarkAbstract:This paper explores the dynamics of institutional change in periods of instability in the Global Capitalist System. Two recent bodies of literature—actor-centered institutionalism and the ‘policy mobilities’ approach—emphasize how contextual and historical specificities drive transformation as institutions move across space. However, scholars in both traditions give less attention to the Systematic patterns of social conflict that influence how policies move and mutate. Drawing on the case of a standards war in the Global cotton trade from 1870 to 1945, I build on these literatures by linking them to a neo-Polanyian theory of social conflict within periods of market-led development. From this view, we must understand institutions, their mobilities, and mutations as constituted by and constitutive of struggles over how the Global Capitalist System should be organized and in whose interests. This requires building on, but also deepening Polanyi's analysis. While Polanyi emphasized the destructive effects of...
M Macpherson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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developing a species protection action plan an integrated approach for taxonomies reporting and engagement for the financial services sector
2019Co-Authors: J F Atkins, M MacphersonAbstract:The planet is currently experiencing a mass extinction event, with human and business activity being the root cause of species loss and habitat destruction. Recent scientific research finds that from a sample of almost half vertebrate species, 32% are decreasing in population size and range as a result of habitat loss, over-exploitation, invasion by alien species, pollution and Global warming. As well as species ‘going extinct’ populations of species are diminishing and disappearing. Given the extinction crisis that we currently find ourselves in, making connections between species extinction and our Global Capitalist System is crucial to driving conservation and species protection. By identifying species loss and extinction as a financially material risk pervasive across all aspects of business, finance and accounting we also identify an urgent need for action, for developing and implementing a Species Protection Action Plan to be spread out across the financial sector throughout all elements and levels of the capital markets, their structures, mechanisms and institutions.
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Developing a species protection action plan – an integrated approach for taxonomies, reporting and engagement for the financial services sector
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019Co-Authors: J F Atkins, M MacphersonAbstract:The planet is currently experiencing a mass extinction event, with human and business activity being the root cause of species loss and habitat destruction. Recent scientific research finds that from a sample of almost half vertebrate species, 32% are decreasing in population size and range as a result of habitat loss, over-exploitation, invasion by alien species, pollution and Global warming. As well as species ‘going extinct’ populations of species are diminishing and disappearing. Given the extinction crisis that we currently find ourselves in, making connections between species extinction and our Global Capitalist System is crucial to driving conservation and species protection. By identifying species loss and extinction as a financially material risk pervasive across all aspects of business, finance and accounting we also identify an urgent need for action, for developing and implementing a Species Protection Action Plan to be spread out across the financial sector throughout all elements and levels of the capital markets, their structures, mechanisms and institutions.
William I. Robinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Pitfalls of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksins Wood's Empire of Capital
Historical Materialism, 2007Co-Authors: William I. RobinsonAbstract:The dynamics of the emerging transnational stage in world capitalism cannot be understood through the blinkers of nation-state-centric thinking. In her study Empire of Capital, Ellen Meiksins Wood exhibits the reification and outdated nation-state-centric thinking that plagues much recent work on world capitalism and US intervention, expressed in the confusing notion of a 'new imperialism'. The overarching problems in Wood's study – and, by extension, in much of the 'new-imperialism' literature – is a reified notion of imperialism, a refusal to draw out the analytical, theoretical, methodological, and epistemological implications of Capitalist Globalisation, and an incessant reification of the state. Instead of a 'new US empire', the current epoch is best understood as a new transnational phase in the ongoing evolution of world capitalism, characterised in particular by the rise of truly transnational capital, Globalised circuits of accumulation, and transnational state apparatuses. 'US imperialism' refers to the use by tansnational elites of the US state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend and stabilise the Global Capitalist System. US militarisation and intervention are best understood as a response to the intractable contradictions of Global capitalism.
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The Pitfalls of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Empire of Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksins Wood's "Empire of Capital"
2007Co-Authors: William I. RobinsonAbstract:Th e dynamics of the emerging transnational stage in world capitalism cannot be understood through the blinkers of nation-state-centric thinking. In her study Empire of Capital, Ellen Meiksins Wood exhibits the reification and outdated nation-state-centric thinking that plagues much recent work on world capitalism and US intervention, expressed in the confusing notion of a ‘new imperialism’. Th e overarching problems in Wood’s study – and, by extension, in much of the ‘new-imperialism’ literature – is a reified notion of imperialism, a refusal to draw out the analytical, theoretical, methodological, and epistemological implications of Capitalist Globalisation, and an incessant reification of the state. Instead of a ‘new US empire’, the current epoch is best understood as a new transnational phase in the ongoing evolution of world capitalism, characterised in particular by the rise of truly transnational capital, Globalised circuits of accumulation, and transnational state apparatuses. ‘US imperialism’ refers to the use by tansnational elites of the US state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend an stabilise the Global Capitalist System. US militarisation and intervention are best understood as a response to the intractable contradictions of Global capitalism.
Adrianne Madaris Nnadi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On the Same Page? The World Bank's Evolving and Revolving Discourse on Poverty Reduction Strategies
2006Co-Authors: Adrianne Madaris NnadiAbstract:The paper argues that the World Bank's understanding of poverty and development has not evolved so much as it has revolved since the 1970s. With poverty reduction as the declared aim, the paper looks at the World Bank's main instruments for achieving this goal, i.e. policy-based lending, and how the Bank's approaches to, and discourse on poverty have changed with the current Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach. The paper finds that the institution has evolved in process, but not in macroeconomic frameworks. Therefore, the neo-liberal, modernisation paradigms in place do not lead to a fundamental questioning or reshaping of the Bank's approach to Africa. The paper asserts that the purpose of these frameworks may deliberately and/or unconsciously be to reproduce the Global Capitalist System, but in the context of the poverty reduction objective, it raises unrealistic expectations for donor and recipient. The Bank would be strengthened as an institution by being more conscious of its revolving history - especially the role of debt as a catalyst for strategies - and by being more forthright about policy aims.
Lance R. Newey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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'Changing the System': compensatory versus transformative social entrepreneurship
Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2017Co-Authors: Lance R. NeweyAbstract:‘Changing the System’ has long been a part of definitions of social entrepreneurship (SE). This paper focuses on capitalism as a Global socio-economic System and understanding the role of SE in relation to this System. A distinction between two types of SE activity is introduced: compensatory and transformative. Compensatory SE compensates for market failures within the Global Capitalist System. By contrast, transformative SE specifically seeks to change the System of Global capitalism. Using the examples of the alter-Globalization movement and transition towns, the paper advances a conceptualization of transformative SE which contrasts assumptions with compensatory SE. This distinction aids to make the field of SE more truly Global, multidisciplinary, representative and emancipatory.