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Offshoring via vertical FDI in a long-run Kaleckian Model
In: Journal of post-Keynesian economics, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 32-64
ISSN: 1557-7821
Profit-led in effect or in appearance alone? Estimating the Irish demand regime given the influence of multinational enterprises
In: Review of evolutionary political economy: REPE, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 319-350
ISSN: 2662-6144
Multinational corporations and commercialised states: Can state aid serve as the basis for an FDI-driven growth strategy?
In recent decades, governments around the world have increasingly used various forms of state aid to try to attract and retain the business activity of foreign-owned multinational corporations. Yet, in most cases, this "commercialisation of state sovereignty" (Palan, 2002) has failed to catalyse foreign investment and economic growth as intended. This paper seeks to understand the general failure of such commercialised state strategies, while also explaining how demand and income growth in some notable exceptions can be understood. To this end, a simple demand-led model is presented that suggests that foreign-targeted state aid may lead to beggarthy-neighbour, FDI-driven growth in one economy if certain conditions are met, such as there being sufficiently little policy competition from other countries. It is shown that the exceptional cases tend to be the early movers, i.e. those few economies and special economic zones that engaged in the commercialisation of state sovereignty before the widespread competitive emulation that followed. This paper argues that state aid for the attraction of foreign multinationals is unlikely to be an effective growth strategy in the current environment of intense state competition and that international coordination on corporation tax and other forms of state aid is desirable.
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Elizabeth A. Olson, Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014), pp. xviii + 181, £49.95; $80.00, hb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 48, Heft 1, S. 211-212
ISSN: 1469-767X
Gavin O'Toole, Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean Volume 1: Introduction, pp. xviii + 318, and Volume 2: Institutions, Policy and Actors, pp. xix + 337 (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2014), each volume £75.00, £19.99 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 445-447
ISSN: 1469-767X
Gavin O'Toole, Environmental Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean Volume 1: Introduction, pp. xviii + 318, and Volume 2: Institutions, Policy and Actors, pp. xix + 337 (Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2014), each volume £75.00, £19.99 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 445-447
ISSN: 0022-216X
David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez and Deborah Barry (eds.), The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005), pp. xiii+372, £25.95, hb; Nora Haenn, Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation and the State in M...
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 439-443
ISSN: 1469-767X
David Barton Bray, Leticia Merino-Pérez and Deborah Barry (eds.), The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005), pp. xiii+372, £25.95, hb; Nora Haenn, Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation and the State in M...
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 439-442
ISSN: 0022-216X
The Community Forests of Mexico: Managing for Sustainable Landscapes
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 439-443
ISSN: 0022-216X
Taking Things Apart: Ovario-Hysterectomy - Textbook Knowledge and Actual Practice in Veterinary Surgery
In: Social studies of science: an international review of research in the social dimensions of science and technology, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 367-397
ISSN: 1460-3659
Veterinary surgery provides an interesting context in which to address important questions about the links between formal 'book' learning and actual, personal experience of the phenomena in question, and to examine the processes through which these links are forged. Participant observation of surgical procedures suggests that surgeons initially learn about anatomy from books, pictures and demonstrations, and become skilled 'operators' through the application of enhancement and reduction procedures that have the effect of transforming the living body into something more closely resembling anatomical pictures of it. Some of these procedures can be seen as a set of formalized 'rules' for performing operations, and like most rules, they appear to decrease in importance as a surgeon gains experience. They may, however, regain importance when a practitioner meets with an anatomical variant that he or she has not previously encountered. Other practices appear to be less formalized, requiring creative, constructive use of visual aids or language practices outside formal textbook knowledge. The links between actual bodies (and operations) and textbook representations of them are thus formed within a community of 'operators'.
Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty, Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002), pp. xiv+382, £46.50, £18.50 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 913-915
ISSN: 1469-767X
Carolyn L. Deere and Daniel C. Esty, Greening the Americas: NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002), pp. xiv+382, (GBP)46.50, (GBP)18.50 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 913-915
ISSN: 0022-216X
Reforming Mexico's agrarian reform Randall, Laura (ed.) (1996), M.E. Sharpe (New York and London). xvi + 343 pp. £55.50 hbk, £19.95 pbk
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 16, Heft 3, S. 396-397
ISSN: 1470-9856
Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 751-753
ISSN: 0022-0388