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"Boccara analyzes the Covid-19 pandemic by focusing on the large group unconscious defenses that were mobilized against the anxieties that the pandemic created. He, in turn, argues that humanity will only be able to successfully manage future systemic crises if public policies and country dialogue systematically take into account the underlying psychosocial dynamics"--

Soviet Management and Labor Relations (1988) examines the official model of Soviet labor relations and the operational reality. It outlines the main characteristics of labor relations during Russia's three major historical industrialisation drives, and the attitude toward work, entrepreneurs and the state bureaucracy displayed by workers with peasant origins and culture. It then deals with the main aspects of the official model of labor relations and legislation; Soviet management practices and labor relations, industrial relations, strategic behaviour and collective actions.

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s.

"Over the last two decades, the Israeli government has implemented policies for the development of East Jerusalem. These comprise urban revitalization as well as professional training and the promotion of entrepreneurship for the Palestinians. But how do these policies co-exist under Israeli settler colonial power? This book focuses on the contradiction between the rise of neoliberal development in East Jerusalem and the simultaneous continuation of Israeli settler colonialism. It argues that the combination of colonialism and neoliberalism allows for the 'primitive accumulation of capital' to occur permanently through explicitly coercive forms. More than this, based on theoretical research, interviews, and an analysis of race and class relations in East Jerusalem, the book shows that neoliberal development is used to facilitate the reproduction of racial hierarchies, settler privileges and the pacification of the Palestinian residents, where these outcomes are presented as the 'natural' result of market relations. The author calls this environment 'neoliberal settler colonialism' and explores Palestinians' new acts of resistance that exist ambivalently within this structure. A significant theoretical contribution, the study highlights a new settler colonial and neoliberal sociability that co-opts the exploited and oppressed"--

Dies ist die Abtrittsvorlesung des Autors nach dreißigjähriger (1992-2022) Tätigkeit als Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Er will am Beispiel der Europäischen Währungsunion die wirtschafts- und politiktheoretische Fruchtbarkeit der aus seiner Sicht wichtigsten Theoriebemühung dieser 30 Jahre aufzeigen. Dies ist die Erneuerung und Modernisierung der traditionellen volkswirtschaftlichen Ordnungstheorie durch Anleihen bei der luhmannschen Gesellschaftstheorie. Ein zentrales Bauelement dieser Theorie ist der Begriff der strukturellen Kopplung zwischen zwei Systemen. Der Wechselkurs verkoppelt das Wirtschafts- und das Politiksystem strukturell. Die Währungsunion hat diese Kopplung durch den Versuch, sich selbst irreversibel zu machen, lahmgelegt und bezahlt dafür mit Orientierungslosigkeit sowohl im Wirtschafts- als auch im Politiksystem. Das für ihre Selbstreproduktion erforderliche Mindestmaß an Anpassung an ihre Umwelt ist nicht mehr gewährleistet. Die Kritik am Euro findet auf diese Weise eine neue theoretische Synthese.