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Three Essays On Political Economy Of Uneven Development: Space, Class And State In Pakistan, Danish Khan
Three Essays On Political Economy Of Uneven Development: Space, Class And State In Pakistan, Danish Khan
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation delineates the underlying dynamics of the political economy of uneven development by focusing on the dynamic interaction between socially produced space, class and the state in the context of postcolonial capitalism in Pakistan. The first essay (chapter two) focuses on the political economy of urban slums in the context of a postcolonial city of Islamabad, Pakistan. It presents a new conceptual framework of ‘expulsionary development’ to illustrate that the growth of slums and high-end gated housing enclaves are two sides of the same coin at the urban scale. Dispossession and urban sprawl are the underlying factors which mediate …
Three Essays On The Economics Of Corporate Governance, Kuochih Huang
Three Essays On The Economics Of Corporate Governance, Kuochih Huang
Doctoral Dissertations
The Great Recession and the revival attention on inequality have cast doubts on various aspects of the governance of Corporate America. Not only the specific design of corporate governance institutions, but also the very purpose of the firm have became hotly debated issues. The first essay investigates the effect of the CEO's equity-based pay on workers' wages and whether the effect is amplified by product market competition. Since the 1980s, Chief Executive Officers' (CEO) pay has exploded, largely in the form of equity-based incentive compensation such as stock awards and options. Using a two-tiered principal-agent model, we show that aligning …
Three Essays On The Past And Future Of Socialism, Mihnea Tudoreanu
Three Essays On The Past And Future Of Socialism, Mihnea Tudoreanu
Doctoral Dissertations
The idea of economic planning and state ownership of the means of production, which had been central to socialist economic thought for a century and a half, suddenly fell out of favor even among socialists after the fall of the Soviet Union. The three essays of this dissertation are in essence critiques of this 21st century orthodoxy. The first essay addresses the idea of market socialism, as proposed by several academic works in the decades before and after the fall of the USSR. The essay questions whether market socialism would be substantially different from capitalism in practice. It aims to …
Three Essays On The Economics And Political Economy Of The “School-To-Prison Pipeline”, Anastasia C. Wilson
Three Essays On The Economics And Political Economy Of The “School-To-Prison Pipeline”, Anastasia C. Wilson
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation examines the political economy and economics of the school-to- prison pipeline (STPP). In my first essay, I interrogate approaches to the economics of the STPP. I then situate my analysis within the theoretical lens of Robinson (2000)’s racial capitalism, to show a political economy approach for understanding the nexus of public schooling and the carceral state. Building on the concept of enclosure as presented by Sojoyner (2013, 2016), I describe the emergence and impacts of the STPP to show how this dynamic functions as a racialized economic enclosure, through punitive discipline, exclusion, and criminalization. Next, I examine the …
Data On Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitments Through March 2018, Tyler Hansen, Robert Pollin
Data On Fossil Fuel Divestment Commitments Through March 2018, Tyler Hansen, Robert Pollin
Data and Datasets
This dataset includes information on fossil fuel divestment commitments that took place as part of the fossil fuel divestment movement through Mar. 23, 2018. The dataset includes the following variables: name of organization, type of organization, home country of organization, type of divestment commitment, date of divestment commitment, and total assets under management of the organization committing to divest. Divestment commitment data was shared with the authors by 350.org. The authors verified and made corrections to two subsets of the data: organizations with assets under management of at least $1 billion which committed to fully divesting from all fossil fuels, …
Marx's Theory Of Ground-Rent: A Suggested Reformulation, Deepankar Basu
Marx's Theory Of Ground-Rent: A Suggested Reformulation, Deepankar Basu
Economics Department Working Paper Series
This paper develops a simple theoretical model to analyze Marx's
theory of ground rent. Using the model, I demonstrate two important
results. First, if we take capital as exogenous, then total ground-rent
can be decomposed into the three components: differential rent of the
first variety (DRI), differential rent of the second variety (DRII), and
absolute rent (AR). Second, if we endogenize capital outlays using
profit-maximizing behaviour of capitalist farmers, then absolute rent
becomes zero. Thus, under reasonable behavioural assumptions about
landlords and capitalist farmers, there will be no absolute rent in a
capitalist economy.
Exploitation Of Labour Or Exploitation Of Commodities?, Deepankar Basu
Exploitation Of Labour Or Exploitation Of Commodities?, Deepankar Basu
Economics Department Working Paper Series
Attempts to use commodities to construct theories of value and use such value theory to claim that, in capitalism, commodities can be exploited, just like labour is, rest on two conceptual flaws: (a) failure to distinguish between labour and labour-power; and (b) failure to distinguish labour-power and other commodities. One way to avoid these conceptual mistakes is to use the labour theory of value.