How was life in 1820, and how has it changed since then? This question, which was at the core of How Was Life? Global Well-being since 1820, published by the OECD in 2014, is addressed by this second volume based on a broader perspective. How Was Life? New Perspectives on Well-b…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Ghanaian political economy and the politics of industrial policy; 2. Origins of competitive clientelism and weak domestic capitalists; 3. Return to competitive clientelism in the fourth republic; 4. Economic growth, but maintaining the colonia…
Foreword / Alain Badiou -- Preface -- The palace's night of red and gold: on the entry of France into the tertiary society -- Chaos as imposture, self-regulation as festive neoconservatism -- Hobbes's Robinson-particles: political arithmetic and mercantile empiricism -- The aver…
"For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handov…
What does it mean to be economically "worse off" during a pandemic? : an introduction to economic welfare -- Should I be free to risk infecting your grandma with a deadly virus? : an introduction to externalities -- Did we close down the economy? : an introduction to public and …
The 'Republic of the Technocrats' -- The Great Present-Day Utopia: The Euro -- The 'Nation State' Utopia: The Village Is My Nation -- Dignity for French Workers -- The Knowledge Commons. "As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state …