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Jessica Gudin

Amartya Sen

Famines often take place in situations of moderate to good food availability, without any significant decline of food supply per head. The paper presents an alternative approach to famines, which does not concentrate on availability, but on people's ability to command food through legal means availa...

David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman

John Stuart Mill's comment that the British Caribbean was really a part of the British domestic economy, because almost all its trade was with British buyers and sellers, is used to make a new assessment of the importance of the eighteenth-century slave systems to British industrialization. If the v...

Willem van Schendel

Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and...

Alison L. Booth

Journal Article A Public Choice Model of Trade Union Behaviour and Membership Get access Alison Booth Alison Booth The City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 94, Issue 376, 1 December 1984, Pages 883–898, https://doi.org/...

Jon Wilson

For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain’s East India Company ruled enclaves of land in South Asia for a century and a half before that. For these 300 years, conquerors and governors projected themselves as heroes and improvers. The B...

Adrian Leftwich

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Atul Kohli, ‘State, society and development’, in: Ira Katnelson & Helen V. Milner (eds), Political Science: The State of the Discipline (W. W. Norton & Co., 2002), p. 117. 2. Dani Rodrik, ‘Growth strategies’, in: Philippe Aghion & Ste...

Joel S. Migdal

In the period from the end of the Cold War, at the beginning of the 1990s, to the present, academics and laymen alike have moved away from a view of borders as fixed and hard features of international life. Today, borders are much more commonly understood as contingent, porous, and in flux. The Cold...

Rounaq Jahan

Contributed articles on Bangladesh's social, economic, and political developments during the past three decades

Fareed Zakaria

American‐led globalization has enabled the third great powershift of the last five hundred years—the “rise of the rest” following on the rise of the West and then the rise of the US as the dominant power in the West. When China, India, Brazil, Turkey and the rest sit at the table of global power wit...

Jenny Corbett, Colin Mayer

Journal Article FINANCIAL REFORM IN EASTERN EUROPE: PROGRESS WITH THE WRONG MODEL Get access JENNY CORBETT, JENNY CORBETT St Antony's CollegeOxford1 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar COLIN MAYER COLIN MAYER City University Business School Search for other works...

Colin Mayer, Denis Swann

Journal Article The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US Get access The Retreat of the State: Deregulation and Privatisation in the UK and US. By DENIS SWANN. (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988. Pp. xv + 344. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0 7450 0152 1.) Colin Maye...

Daniel O’Connor

A new and expansive official history of the USPG commissioned to mark the tercentenary in 2001. The first half tells a compelling global story from the mission to the Americas in the 18th century, through the North China Mission in the late 19th century to todayis Social Development Programme in Ban...

John F. Richards, James R. Hagen, Edward S. Haynes

Undivided colonial India experienced an accelerated rate of economic change in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Official policies and funds combined with private entrepreneurial energies and investment to intensify India's linkages with the world market in trade, industry, agriculture, and na...