This book is designed to help the general reader understand the economic reasons behind current social and political problems such as mass unemployment, cuts in living standards and the world-wide economic crisis. The fundamental differences, within the capitalist system, between the Keynesian, market and Marxist models are outlined, as are the alternatives presented by the feminist and green movements. Following this, several socialist economies - Soviet, Chinese, Yugoslav and African - are considered in detail and compared with Marx's original concepts. In the last section the author attempts to build models for understanding the future, with the current developments in capitalism, including the arms economy, and the possible transition of capitalism to socialism.

Models In Political Economy

Business & Money

Brown, Michael Barratt

Economics

Penguin Uk

For thirty years, the World Bank has proposed policies that have produced few economic benefits but have eroded the traditional strengths of African society—even the Bank itself now admits this. But while African leaders, many propped up by the West, are often corrupt or incompetent, an impressive range of regional initiatives and small-scale cooperatives, fledgling industrial projects, women's organizations, and peasant associations represent major signs of hope. These countless initiatives, now springing from the grass roots of African life, embody the realities of an African road to development. They speak for good sense and great courage against the failed miseries of today: against World Bank dogmas left over from the Thatcher/Reagan era, against pricing abuses, against uncanceled debts owed to the rich by the world's poorest countries—all of which have led to economic breakdown and war. They also challenge our failure to open up our markets to African exports and our minds to African expertise. Examined here in a manner that is both penetrating and hardheaded, what Africans themselves are saying and doing indicates the basis for a continent's self-transformation and an agenda for the kind of support they are seeking.

Africa's Choices: After Thirty Years Of The World Bank

Barratt Brown, Michael

Westview Press

An overview of Yugoslavia from its creation during the United Nations negotiations with Tito during World War II through its breakup in the Balkan war, this work examines the political history of this deeply divided state. Providing not only an in-depth summary of the conventional view of Yugoslavian history, but also laying out one of the first written accounts of the negotiations between Tito and the United Nations, this study adds a number of original historical arguments. What lies ahead for the troubled Balkan region and what responsibilities the United States and Germany have in restoration and regulation are also discussed.

From Tito to Milosevic: Yugoslavia, the Lost Country

History

Europe

Merlin Press

European Union: Fortress or Democracy? : Towards a Democratic Market and a New Economic Order

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Dufour Editions

European Union: Fortress or Democracy

Spokesman Pr

<p>The closure of the vast majority of British coalmines has had a devastating impact on local communities, causing widespread unemployment, privation, misery and debt. The authors criticise both Tory and Labour governments for not doing enough to help.</p>

Community Under Attack: The Struggle for Survival in the Coalfield Communities of Britain

Coates, Ken

<p>New Labour seeks to reform the welfare state within the context of stringent curbs on public expenditure. Unsurprisingly these commitments do not impress old Labour Members. This manifesto sets out to help understanding of these arguments.</p>

The May Day Manifesto: Defending the Welfare State. Mr. Blair's ""Reforms

Book by Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Harold Pinter, Achin Vanaik, Steve Boggin, Michael Barratt Brown, Tony Simpson, Ken Coates, Pamela White

War Is Peace (The Spokesman)

ROY, ARUNDHATI

Galtung, Johan

Simpson, Tony

CHOMSKY, Noam.

PINTER, Harold

Vanaik, Achin

White, Pamela

Boggin, Steve

Seekers: A Twentieth Century Life- Memories of People & Places, 1918-2013

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America and Europe. Current global trading arrangements, however, involve serious obstacles for exporters from the South as well as rivalries between the major economies. This book explores how the international trading system came into existence, the ways in which commodity markers work today, and why the poor countries of the South are facing not free trade, but unfair trade. It traces the stages of the world's economic development which has resulted in a this stark imbalance between North and South, following the chain of trade from crop to shop. The book's lessons are relevant to students, policy makers, and all those interested in a world trading system built on more than market muscle and the profit motive - a system that serves the interests of ordinary people everywhere.

Fair Trade: Reform and Realities in the International Trading System

Zed Books

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