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Un Nouveau Miracle Économique Ivoirien?, Vincent Hiribarren, Abou B. Bamba Jul 2017

Un Nouveau Miracle Économique Ivoirien?, Vincent Hiribarren, Abou B. Bamba

History Faculty Publications

Questions à Abou Bamba, associate professor d’Histoire et d’Etudes Africaines à Gettysburg College (Etats-Unis). Il est l’auteur de African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast (Ohio University Press, 2016).


The Myth Of Endless Accumulation: A Feminist Inquiry Into Globalization, Growth, And Social Change, Martha Freymann Miser Jan 2011

The Myth Of Endless Accumulation: A Feminist Inquiry Into Globalization, Growth, And Social Change, Martha Freymann Miser

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This theoretical dissertation examines the concept of growth and its core assumption—that the continual accumulation of wealth is both socially wise and ecologically sustainable. The study challenges and offers alternatives to the myth of endless accumulation, suggesting new directions for leadership and social change. The central question posed in this inquiry: Can we craft a more ethical form of capitalism? To answer this question, the study examines conventional and critical globalization studies; feminist scholarship on standpoint, political economy, and power; and the Enlightenment notions of progress and modernism, drawing on a number of works, including Aristotle on the three intelligences, …


Review: Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit Of Capitalism: Nationalism And Economic Growth (Cambridge, Mass., 2001), Andre Wakefield Dec 2003

Review: Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit Of Capitalism: Nationalism And Economic Growth (Cambridge, Mass., 2001), Andre Wakefield

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Reviewed work: Liah Greenfeld. The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xi+541. $45.00


Crecimiento Económico Y Cambio De La Productividad En México, 1750-1895, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci Dec 1987

Crecimiento Económico Y Cambio De La Productividad En México, 1750-1895, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci

History Faculty Research

La relación entre la administración política y el crecimiento económico sigue siendo una preocupación central de las distintas pero relacionadas historiografías de México al final de la Colonia, de comienzos de la República y de fines del siglo XIX. Debido a que las reformas de los Borbones coincidieron con las mayores transformaciones'' en la economía de Nueva España, estos dos procesos son frecuentemente percibidos en términos de causa y efecto, con cambios administrativos ejerciendo influencias positivas sobre muchos sectores y actividades económicas. Para el período de la Independencia, cuando el transtorno social y la inestabilidad política eran contemporáneas con el …