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Political Order and Inequality

By: Carles Boix

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Political Order and Inequality

By: Carles Boix

The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. This book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation.

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1107089433

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Political Order and Inequality

Their Foundations and their Consequences for Human Welfare

By: Carles Boix

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Political Order and Inequality

Their Foundations and their Consequences for Human Welfare

By: Carles Boix

The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? This problem then opens up two further questions. If a state is necessary to establish order, how does it come into place? And, when it does, what are the consequences for the political status and economic welfare of its citizens? Combining ethnographical material, historical cases, and statistical analysis, this book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation. As a result of this inquiry, it explains the economic and political roots of inequality, describes the causes of the stagnation of the preindustrial world, and explores what led to the West's prosperity of the past two centuries.

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1316300161

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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Technological Change and the Future of Politics

By: Carles Boix

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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Technological Change and the Future of Politics

By: Carles Boix

An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalism The twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by polarization and income inequality, widespread dissatisfaction with democratic institutions, and insurgent populism. Tracing the history of democratic capitalism over the past two centuries, Carles Boix explains how we got here—and where we could be headed. Boix looks at three defining stages of capitalism, each originating in a distinct time and place with its unique political challenges, structure of production and employment, and relationship with democracy. He begins in nineteenth-century Manchester, where factory owners employed unskilled laborers at low wages, generating rampant inequality and a restrictive electoral franchise. He then moves to Detroit in the early 1900s, where the invention of the modern assembly line shifted labor demand to skilled blue-collar workers. Boix shows how growing wages, declining inequality, and an expanding middle class enabled democratic capitalism to flourish. Today, however, the information revolution that began in Silicon Valley in the 1970s is benefitting the highly educated at the expense of the traditional working class, jobs are going offshore, and inequality has risen sharply, making many wonder whether democracy and capitalism are still compatible. Essential reading for these uncertain times, Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads proposes sensible policy solutions that can help harness the unruly forces of capitalism to preserve democracy and meet the challenges that lie ahead.

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Princeton University Press

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0691216894

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9780691216898

Political Parties, Growth and Equality

Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy

By: Carles Boix

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Political Parties, Growth and Equality

Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy

By: Carles Boix

Given the increased openness of countries to international trade and financial flows, the general public and the scholarly literature have grown skeptical about the capacity of policy-makers to affect economic performance. Challenging this view, Political Parties, Growth, and Equality shows that the increasingly interdependent world economy and recent technological shocks have actually exacerbated the dilemmas faced by governments in choosing among various policy objectives, such as generating jobs and reducing income inequality, thereby granting political parties and electoral politics a fundamental and growing role in the economy. To make growth and equality compatible, social democrats employ the public sector to raise the productivity of capital and labor. By contrast, conservatives rely on the private provision of investment. Based on analysis of the economic policies of all OECD countries since the 1960s and in-depth examination of Britain and Spain in the 1980s, this book offers a new understanding of how contemporary democracies work.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521585953

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9780521585958

Broadening Horizons

3rd Conference of Young Researchers Working in the Ancient Near East

By: Borrell Tena, Ferran,Bouso García, Mònica,Gómez Bach, Anna,Tornero Dacasa, Carles,Vicente Campos, Oriol

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Broadening Horizons

3rd Conference of Young Researchers Working in the Ancient Near East

By: Borrell Tena, Ferran,Bouso García, Mònica,Gómez Bach, Anna,Tornero Dacasa, Carles,Vicente Campos, Oriol

Broadening Horizons is a series of international congresses dedicated to researchers, including postgraduate students, in the early-stages of their careers who are involved in a number of different disciplinary areas in the study of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The general aim of the conferences is to encourage discussion of new topics and to promote the exchange of ideas, data and scientific information among students and scholars of many different specialties – archaeology, prehistory, history, anthropology, archaeobiology and philology – throughout the geographical area known as the Ancient Near East. The 3rd of these congresses was held in Barcelona (Spain), from the 19th to the 21st of July 2010 in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, following previous congresses which had taken place at Ghent University (Belgium) in 2006 and at Université Lyon 2 (France) in 2007. This volume includes not only the very interesting and diverse set of papers presented in Barcelona but also the invited contributions of the key speakers. These two sections are followed by a final paper by the editors about the trajectory of the BH conferences and about the particularities and difficulties confronting young scholars who are doing research in the Near East.

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Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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8449027438

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9788449027437

Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist

By: Carles Fontserè

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Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist

By: Carles Fontserè

The political poster explosion of July 1936 has been highly acclaimed by critics and scholars worldwide. One of the best-known posters of the time, "Freedom!" – which has acquired near cult status – shows a peasant holding a sickle aloft, set against the anarchist red-and-black flag. The artist, Carles Fontserè, was just twenty years old when he joined the revolution along with fellow artists and comrades-in-arms, Josep Alumà, Helios Gómez, Antoni Clavé and many others who appear in this account. In his outstanding memoirs, which are more artistic, political and collective than intimate, Fontserè recounts his upbringing in a petit bourgeois family with Carlist leanings along with his experience in the Barcelona Requeté. His thirst for reading led him to the writings of Tolstoy, which inspired his nascent libertarian ideals culminating in his road-to-Damascus transformation during the heady events of the Nationalist military uprising in Barcelona. Fontserè played a key role in the founding of the Professional Drawing Union in 1936 and went on to draw posters for the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), among other political parties. He served with the International Brigades and, paradoxically, survived several close brushes with death from his own side. His story culminates with the Republican retreat from Barcelona and his escape over the Pyrenees, together with Catalan president Lluís Companys and his cabinet, into exile in France. Fontserè's Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist masterfully combines autobiography and history through the eyes of one of the 20th century's foremost Catalan graphic artists, known worldwide for his Republican propaganda posters. The book of Carles Fontserè's memoirs is not only an excellent translation from Catalan to English, but one central to the history of Catalonia.

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Pensódromo 21

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8494552260

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9788494552267

Terminología y conocimiento especializado

III Simposio Internacional de Verano de Terminología : "las fuentes del conocimiento especializado y la terminología" (10-13 de julio de 2001)

By: M. Teresa Cabré. Judit Freixa. Carles Tebé (ed.)

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Terminología y conocimiento especializado

III Simposio Internacional de Verano de Terminología : "las fuentes del conocimiento especializado y la terminología" (10-13 de julio de 2001)

By: M. Teresa Cabré. Judit Freixa. Carles Tebé (ed.)

The III International Symposium of Terminology, organized by the research group IULATERM, was held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona from July 10 to 13, 2001. After the two first editions, devoted to Terminology and cultural models (1997) and to Terminology and cognition (1999), the three lectures of the l III Symposium are devoted to the analysis of sources of specialized knowledge and terminology. The first lecture, presented by Lita Lundquist (Copenhaguen Business School), is about the production of specialized knowledge. The second lecture, presented by Cristina Junyent (Observatori de la Comunicació Científica de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra), is about the problems of the transference of specialized knowledge. The third lecture, presented by Mercè Izquierdo (Departament de Didàctica de les Matemàtiques i de les Ciències Experimentals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), analyzes the teaching of specialized knowledge. The volumen has a four tex from the a lecture of Professor Josep Bernabeu-Mestre (University of Alacant) in the III Escuela Internacional de Verano de Terminología, and is about the terminology problems in historical research.

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Documenta Universitaria

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8492707518

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Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Technological Change and the Future of Politics

By: Carles Boix

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Technological Change and the Future of Politics

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Democracy and Redistribution

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Democracy and Redistribution

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Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions, in which political regimes ultimately hinge on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed up by detailed historical work and extensive statistical analysis that goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, this book explains, among many other things, why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also discusses the early triumph of democracy in both nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America and the failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.

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0521532671

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Political Parties, Growth and Equality

Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy

By: Carles Boix

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Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy

By: Carles Boix

This book describes the contrasting economic strategies pursued by conservative and social democratic governments. The current literature on political economy maintains that, due to the globalization of the economy and each country's institutional structures, parties hardly affect the economy. Examining all advanced countries since the 1960s, Professor Boix shows instead that partisanship and electoral politics play a fundamental role in the selection of policies to generate long-term growth and economic competitiveness. The book reinvigorates the claim that democratic arrangements matter.

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Book's by Carles Boix

Political Order and Inequality

Political Order and Inequality

Political Order and Inequality

Political Order and Inequality

Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Political Parties, Growth and Equality

Political Parties, Growth and Equality

Broadening Horizons

Broadening Horizons

Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist

Memoirs of a Spanish Civil War Artist

Terminología y conocimiento especializado

Terminología y conocimiento especializado

Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads

Democracy and Redistribution

Democracy and Redistribution

Political Parties, Growth and Equality

Political Parties, Growth and Equality

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