Poverty of disaster, Paul, Tawny (university Of California, Los Angeles

Автор: Acemoglu Daron, Robinson James
Название: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
ISBN: 0307719227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307719225
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?

Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are?

Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence?

Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it).

Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities.

The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people.

Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutionswith no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories.

Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including:

- China has built an authoritarian growth machine.

Will it continue to grow at such high speed andoverwhelm the West?

- Are America's best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority?

- What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson's breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions?

Why Nations Fail will change the way you look atand understandthe world.

Автор: Bilchitz, David
Название: Poverty and Fundamental Rights
ISBN: 0199552169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199552160
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This book addresses the pressing issue of severe poverty and inequality, and asks why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than civil and political rights? It provides a sustained argument for placing renewed focus on socio-economic rights as a method of ensuring that governments address extreme poverty.

Автор: Goldman Wendy Z., Filtzer Donald A.
Название: Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II
ISBN: 0253017084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253017086
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: "Making use of recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food, and in feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production, and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population`s experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine"--Provided by publisher.

Автор: Paul Tawny
Название: Poverty of Disaster
ISBN: 1108496946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108496940
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Eighteenth-century Britain saw significant numbers of the middle classes imprisoned for debt, with many motivated by a fear of financial failure rather than a desire for upward social mobility. This study examines the role that debt insecurity played within society, and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned it.

Автор: Huffman, James L.,
Название: Down and out in late Meiji Japan /
ISBN: 0824872916 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824872915
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: A sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan`s hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman draws on newspaper articles, official surveys, and reminiscences to recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves.

Автор: Taylor Claire
Название: Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being
ISBN: 019878693X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198786931
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens `poverty` encompassed not only destitution, but also the need to work for a living. This volume considers what it meant to be poor in this sense, arguing that it should be understood not just as an economic condition, but also in terms of social relations, capabilities, and well-being.

Автор: McAndrews Lawrence J.
Название: The Presidents and the Poor: America Battles Poverty, 1964-2017
ISBN: 0700626735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626731
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: Provides a thorough study of the policies and politics of the presidents from Johnson to Barack Obama - what they did right and how they went wrong - in over half a century of fighting poverty. While all of these presidents have helped produce meaningful changes in the lives of America`s underclass, their setbacks have been at least as notable as their successes.

Автор: Bilchitz, David
Название: Poverty and Fundamental Rights
ISBN: 0199204918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199204915
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Addresses the issue of severe poverty and inequality, and questions why violations of socio-economic rights are treated with less urgency than violations of civil and political rights, such as the right to freedom of speech or to vote.

Автор: Spinks
Название: Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700
ISBN: 1137442700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137442703
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped by new developments in the history of emotions. It offers a rich range of analytical frameworks and case studies, from the emotional language of divine providence to individual and communal experiences of disaster. Geographically wide-ranging, the collection also analyses many different sorts of media: from letters and diaries to broadsheets and paintings. Through these and other historical records, the contributors examine how communities and individuals experienced, responded to, recorded and managed the emotional dynamics and trauma created by dramatic events like massacres, floods, fires, earthquakes and plagues.

Автор: John Sorenson
Название: Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa
ISBN: 1349242594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349242597
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The Horn of Africa has suffered repeated disasters: wars, drought, famine, mass refugee movements and environmental decline.

Автор: Spinks Jennifer, Zika Charles
Название: Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400-1700
ISBN: 1349684465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349684465
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Описание: In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning.

Автор: Barskova Polina
Название: Besieged Leningrad: Aesthetic Responses to Urban Disaster
ISBN: 0875807720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780875807720
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During the 872 days of the Siege of Leningrad (September 1941 to January 1944), the city's inhabitants were surrounded by the military forces of Nazi Germany. They suffered famine, cold, and darkness, and a million people lost their lives, making the siege one of the most destructive in history. Confinement in the besieged city was a traumatic experience. Unlike the victims of the Auschwitz concentration camp, for example, who were brought from afar and robbed of their cultural roots, the victims of the Siege of Leningrad were trapped in the city as it underwent a slow, horrific transformation. They lost everything except their physical location, which was layered with historical, cultural, and personal memory. In Besieged Leningrad, Polina Barskova examines how the city's inhabitants adjusted to their new urban reality, focusing on the emergence of new spatial perceptions that fostered the production of diverse textual and visual representations. The myriad texts that emerged during the siege were varied and exciting, engendered by sometimes sharply conflicting ideological urges and aesthetic sensibilities. In this first study of the cultural and literary representations of spatiality in besieged Leningrad, Barskova examines a wide range of authors with competing views of their difficult relationship with the city, filling a gap in Western knowledge of the culture of the siege. It will appeal to Russian studies specialists as well as those interested in war testimonies and the representation of trauma.