Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism.

2021

Level: leicht

Africa's Last Colonial Currency

Fanny Pigeaud, Ndongo Samba Sylla

Pluto Press

In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains.

2019

Level: leicht

Value Chains

Intan Suwandi

NYU Press

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.

2019

Level: leicht

Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary

Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Alberto Acosta, Federico Demaria

Tulika Books and Authorsupfront

The book critically engages with various Marxian perspectives on the dynamics on development and social progress It specifically engages with some key words in Marxian theory including Marx s early work on capitalist development and his later works on underdeveloped Russia Lenin s thesis on imperialism as a hurdle for …

2021

Level: mittel

Rethinking Development

Ronaldo Munck

Springer Nature

In this ambitious and impressive new book, journalist Howard French seeks to excavate the long elided central importance of the African continent as the “linchpin of the machine of modernity.” In the story of modernity, he writes, the role of Africa is diminished, trivialized, and erased, and by filling in some gaps in this story, he retells the story of modernity.

2021

Level: mittel

Born in Blackness

Howard W. French

Liveright Publishing Corporation

From the Dissolution of the Soviet Union to the Conflict in Ukraine The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the creation of new states and territorial conflicts of different levels of intensity Scrutinising the post Soviet period this volume offers explanations for both the frequency and the intensity of …

2021

Level: mittel

Crises in the Post-Soviet Space

Felix Jaitner, Tina Olteanu, Tobias Spöri (ed.)

Taylor & Francis Limited

The book is a collection of 51 texts by different scholars and activists, who each adds a dimension/perspective to the topics of degrowth and societal transformation. A societal transformation towards a degrowth society is dependent on a lot of ideas coming together and creating change from various starting points within a society. Therefore, the authors are quite diverse and their contributions vary from being philosophical, natural science based, economic, sociological and so forth. Some are specfiically focused on a concept and others are a more broad critique of e.g., capitalism or growth.

2015

Level: mittel

Degrowth

Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis

Routledge

In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail.

2013

Level: leicht

Rethinking Capitalist Development

Kalyan Sanyal

Routledge

In this volume, Katz offers a detailed summary of the foundations, evolutions and approaches of Dependency Theory in Latin America, focusing on the regional interpretations of Marxism, Developmentalism and World-Systems Theory.

2022

Level: mittel

Dependency Theory After Fifty Years

Claudio Katz

Brill

How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development.

2002

Level: mittel

Kicking Away the Ladder

Ha-Joon Chang

Anthem Press

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater wellbeing or at least an encouraging economic future.

2017

Level: mittel

A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics

Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi

Edward Elgar Publishing

This book highlights the political economy of wealth and income inequality in Latin America. The author segments his analysis to separately evaluate the economic, social, and political costs of inequality building on country case studies. It draws well-contextualized lessons from the Latin American experience that is important to consider for other regional contexts, especially for social policies of nations within the 'Middle Income Trap'.

2020

Level: leicht

The Costs of Inequality in Latin America

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Bloomsbury Academic