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For more than fifty years now the Bundesliga is an important part of German sporting and cultural life and identity. Yet there are voices who harshly criticize the growing trend of commercialization which allegedly tends to undermine the true sporting nature of the game. The author points out that there is no need at all to be nostalgic about the assumed "good old days" of German football. In fact, the first years of the Bundesliga were characterized by dubious economic practices: While the German Football Association officially stuck to the ideal of amateurism, a shadow economy was flourishing around the clubs and its players. This insincerity and corruption became a burden especially for the involved communities. In contrast to that, the article argues, the often demonized period of neo-liberalism, with its final take-off since the 1990s, has given Bundesliga clubs the opportunity to create a highly professional profile and management – a development that goes to the benefit not only of sport itself but also to its social and cultural surroundings.

This review is an analysis of Prasannan Parthasarathi's explanation of the economic divergence in the long eighteenth century between Britain and India as presented in his recent book. It focuses on the question of why Britain industrialized first instead of India. Parthasarathi's claim that Britain's industrialization was a response to two challenges that were absent in India—global competition with other textile producers, in this case India, and a wood shortage—is critically discussed, as is his claim that the state played a fundamental role in the rise of Britain's industry. The review ends with expressing doubts about Parthasarathi's thesis that there would not have existed a unique scientific and technological culture in Britain or more broadly Europe.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: A step away from the long shadow of colonial Europe -- Chapter 2.The Wider World of Indo-Sasanian Interactions -- Chapter 3. Trade Networks, Metallic Currency, and the Huns in Early India -- Chapter 4. The Commodities, the Producers and the Consumers: Defining Markets -- Chapter 5. Christian and Sogdian Traders, and the Indo-Sasanian Trade -- Chapter 6. Trade Routes, Traders and the Making of the Sacred Landscapes -- Chapter 7. India's Ancient Economy: How does this book differ from available writings?.-Chapter 8. Conclusion: Theorizing the Indo-Sasanian Trade. .

A shoe salesman's son at M.I.T. -- The rules of the passion economy -- Behold the dairy brush -- Case study: Kirrin Finch -- Accounting for the brave -- In vino veritas -- Know your story -- Case study: Conbody -- The Amish lesson -- The North Carolina factory that ate China's lunch -- Case Study: Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream -- Don't be a commodity -- The world in a chocolate bar -- Case study: breakthrough ADR -- The nudge.

Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --1 The Effectiveness of the European Union's Cohesion Policy in the Years 2000-2015 --2 Regional Variation in EU Identification in the Southern and Eastern Peripheries of Europe: Does Cohesion Policy Matter? --3 Quality of Life Convergence in the EU: Do Eastern and Southern European States Lag Behind? --1 Subsidizing Foreign Investments Through EU Funds in the European Peripheries: The Case of the Automotive Sector in East-Central Europe --2 The Hungarian Experience of Using Cohesion Policy Funds and Prospects --3 Effects of EU-Funds on Territorial Cohesion -- Public and Private Resources for Regional Development in the Least-Developed, Most Deprived Micro-Regions in Hungary --4 JESSICA Initiative to Support Sustainable Urban Development Projects in Poland

Part I: The global crisis caused by deflation -- Chapter 1: Transformation of global capitalism, deflation with unemployment and rhetoric around intergenerational conflict -- Chapter 2: Public spending and social reproduction: overturning the rhetoric -- Chapter 3: Transformation of public intervention in the crisis in USA and Japan -- Chapter 4: The European exception to the generational narrative -- Chapter 5: Deficit and debt -- Chapter 6: Low growth, demographics, labour: problems to be solved -- Chapter 7: European growth is possible only if the public debt paradigm changes -- Chapter 8: Europe is the epicentre of deflation and power imbalance -- Chapter 9: France and Germany -- Chapter 10: Neocolonialism and neoimperialism -- Chapter 11: New areas of state: between Leviathan and Behemoth -- Part II: Financialised, high-tech capitalism based on modern slavery -- Chapter 12: The advent of owner capitalism: ordoliberalism and new technologies -- Chapter 13: A new Kondratieff cycle -- Chapter 14: A technology for long-term stagnation? -- Chapter 15: Mechanics, commodities, labour -- Chapter 16: Soul of the capitalist machinery -- Chapter 17: Why should we research workers and employees today? -- Chapter 18: Disappearance of trade unions: deinstitutionalised capitalism? -- Part III: Is a non-capitalist economy possible? -- Chapter 19: Histories, wars, markets -- Chapter 20: The problem is ownership and its variable forms -- Chapter 21: Faith? -- Part IV: Freedom and diversity: the anticapitalist revolution -- Chapter 23: More on allocation of ownership -- Chapter 24: Common goods -- Part V: Against rhetoric, back to theory and struggle -- Chapter 25: Living worlds...communities? -- Chapter 26: People: our strength -- Part VI: Blowing into the bottle -- Chapter 27: Adriano Olivetti and the language of hope