Author: Piercy Ravenstone
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
A Few Doubts as to the Correctness of Some Opinions Generally Entertained on the Subjects of Population and Political Economy
Author: Piercy Ravenstone
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Tiny Engines of Abundance
Author: Jim Handy
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773635433
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity and/or the state. For two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been. Handy’s approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty.
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773635433
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. These stories provide us with pictures of carefully limited needs, of sustainable livelihoods and of resilient self-reliance attacked relentlessly and mercilessly in the name of capital, progress, development, modernity and/or the state. For two hundred years we have been told that the hundreds of thousands, or millions, or billions of hungry mouths require that peasants be dispossessed to allow more industrious farmers to feed them. This book helps make it clear how wrong we have been. Handy’s approach is original, and the book will engage people interested in the history of the peasantry, rural development, and the quest for food sovereignty.
Classical Political Economy
Author: Michael Perelman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472508467
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Classical Political Economy addresses the question of what determines the social division of labour, the division of society into independent firms and industries and develops the theoretical implications of primitive accumulation. It also offers a significantly different interpretation of classical political economy, demonstrating that this school of thought supported the process of primitive accumulation. Classical political economy presents an imposing facade. For more than two centuries, the accepted doctrine dictates that a market generates forces that provide the most efficient method for organising production. This laissez faire approach is an ideology that gives capital absolute freedom of action, and yet called for intervention to coerce people to do things that they would not otherwise do. Classical political economy therefore encouraged policies that would hinder people's ability to produce for their own needs. Michael Perelman, however, in this innovative take on the subject, seeks to challenge the ideologies that would allow things to continue in this line unchecked.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472508467
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Classical Political Economy addresses the question of what determines the social division of labour, the division of society into independent firms and industries and develops the theoretical implications of primitive accumulation. It also offers a significantly different interpretation of classical political economy, demonstrating that this school of thought supported the process of primitive accumulation. Classical political economy presents an imposing facade. For more than two centuries, the accepted doctrine dictates that a market generates forces that provide the most efficient method for organising production. This laissez faire approach is an ideology that gives capital absolute freedom of action, and yet called for intervention to coerce people to do things that they would not otherwise do. Classical political economy therefore encouraged policies that would hinder people's ability to produce for their own needs. Michael Perelman, however, in this innovative take on the subject, seeks to challenge the ideologies that would allow things to continue in this line unchecked.
Cultures of the Sublime
Author: Cian Duffy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350308781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Traditionally, the sublime has been associated with impressive natural phenomena and has been identified as a narrow aesthetic or philosophical category. Cultures of the Sublime: Selected Readings, 1750-1830: - Recovers a broader context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime - Offers a selection of texts from a wide range of ostensibly unrelated areas of knowledge which both generate and investigate sublime effects - Considers writings about mountains, money, crowds, the Gothic, the exotic and the human mind - Contextualises and supports the extracts with detailed editorial commentary Also featuring helpful suggestions for further reading, this is an ideal resource for anyone seeking a fresh, up-to-date assessment of the sublime.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350308781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Traditionally, the sublime has been associated with impressive natural phenomena and has been identified as a narrow aesthetic or philosophical category. Cultures of the Sublime: Selected Readings, 1750-1830: - Recovers a broader context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime - Offers a selection of texts from a wide range of ostensibly unrelated areas of knowledge which both generate and investigate sublime effects - Considers writings about mountains, money, crowds, the Gothic, the exotic and the human mind - Contextualises and supports the extracts with detailed editorial commentary Also featuring helpful suggestions for further reading, this is an ideal resource for anyone seeking a fresh, up-to-date assessment of the sublime.
Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy
Author: Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Socialism, Radicalism, and Nostalgia
Author: William Stafford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521339896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An account of the flowering of radical social criticism in Britain during the first industrial revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521339896
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An account of the flowering of radical social criticism in Britain during the first industrial revolution.
Book Catalogues: 1894
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Essays in Economics
Author: Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The British Critic
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
English, Irish and Subversives Among the Dismal Scientists
Author: Noel W. Thompson
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 0857240625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Features a collection of essays on the Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 0857240625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Features a collection of essays on the Irish and English economists of the 18th and 19th centuries.