Despina Alexiadou
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198755715
- eISBN:
- 9780191816864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755715.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics
The role of Irish ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance is investigated in this chapter. Ireland is a majoritarian system, in which coalition and single-party cabinets have been ...
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The role of Irish ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance is investigated in this chapter. Ireland is a majoritarian system, in which coalition and single-party cabinets have been alternating in power until the late 1980s. Ireland is ranked amongst the countries that allow their ministers very little policy discretion. The chapter investigates the role of the ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance in five multiparty governments, from 1982 to the early 2000s. Chapter 7 provides critical insights and supports the central thesis of the book that ministerial appointments have real policy consequences. At the same time, it investigates the role of coalition agreements, of the prime minister and the minister of finance.Less
The role of Irish ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance is investigated in this chapter. Ireland is a majoritarian system, in which coalition and single-party cabinets have been alternating in power until the late 1980s. Ireland is ranked amongst the countries that allow their ministers very little policy discretion. The chapter investigates the role of the ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance in five multiparty governments, from 1982 to the early 2000s. Chapter 7 provides critical insights and supports the central thesis of the book that ministerial appointments have real policy consequences. At the same time, it investigates the role of coalition agreements, of the prime minister and the minister of finance.
Uwe Puetter
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719074035
- eISBN:
- 9781781701553
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719074035.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This book a study on the work of the Eurogroup—monthly informal meetings between euro area finance ministers, the Commission and the European Central Bank. It demonstrates how this small, secretive ...
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This book a study on the work of the Eurogroup—monthly informal meetings between euro area finance ministers, the Commission and the European Central Bank. It demonstrates how this small, secretive circle of senior decision-makers shapes European economic governance through a routinised informal policy dialogue. Although the role of the Eurogroup has been contested since before the group's creation, its actual operation has never been subject to systematic evaluation. This book opens the doors of the meeting room and shows how an understanding of the interplay of formal provisions and informal processes is pivotal to the analysis of euro area governance. The book advances the conceptual understanding of informal negotiations among senior European and national decision-makers, and provides an in-depth analysis of historical episodes of policy coordination. As other areas of European decision-making rely increasingly on informal, voluntary policy coordination amongst member states, the Eurogroup model can be seen as a template for other policy areas.Less
This book a study on the work of the Eurogroup—monthly informal meetings between euro area finance ministers, the Commission and the European Central Bank. It demonstrates how this small, secretive circle of senior decision-makers shapes European economic governance through a routinised informal policy dialogue. Although the role of the Eurogroup has been contested since before the group's creation, its actual operation has never been subject to systematic evaluation. This book opens the doors of the meeting room and shows how an understanding of the interplay of formal provisions and informal processes is pivotal to the analysis of euro area governance. The book advances the conceptual understanding of informal negotiations among senior European and national decision-makers, and provides an in-depth analysis of historical episodes of policy coordination. As other areas of European decision-making rely increasingly on informal, voluntary policy coordination amongst member states, the Eurogroup model can be seen as a template for other policy areas.
Mark Metzler
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520244207
- eISBN:
- 9780520931794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520244207.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter describes the reaction to the failure of economic liberalism that shaped the new policies of the 1930s. Japan's new economic course was charted by Takahashi Korekiyo, now a great elder ...
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This chapter describes the reaction to the failure of economic liberalism that shaped the new policies of the 1930s. Japan's new economic course was charted by Takahashi Korekiyo, now a great elder statesman, who in December 1931 returned to office as finance minister. Takahashi's pathbreaking policy of “Japanese Keynesianism” led Japan out of the Great Depression ahead of any other major country and created the financial foundations of a new kind of state-led industrial policy. Yoked to a militarist policy of expansion on the Asian continent, these economically nationalist policies also helped lead Japan “out of” the West and into a bloody contest for hegemony in East Asia.Less
This chapter describes the reaction to the failure of economic liberalism that shaped the new policies of the 1930s. Japan's new economic course was charted by Takahashi Korekiyo, now a great elder statesman, who in December 1931 returned to office as finance minister. Takahashi's pathbreaking policy of “Japanese Keynesianism” led Japan out of the Great Depression ahead of any other major country and created the financial foundations of a new kind of state-led industrial policy. Yoked to a militarist policy of expansion on the Asian continent, these economically nationalist policies also helped lead Japan “out of” the West and into a bloody contest for hegemony in East Asia.
Despina Alexiadou
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198755715
- eISBN:
- 9780191816864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755715.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics
This chapter tests the policy role of ministerial types employing three different indicators of social welfare generosity: welfare state de-commodification, unemployment generosity insurance, and ...
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This chapter tests the policy role of ministerial types employing three different indicators of social welfare generosity: welfare state de-commodification, unemployment generosity insurance, and sickness generosity insurance. Both hypotheses find strong empirical support in a sample of eighteen parliamentary democracies. Left ideologues and left partisans, alike, have played a central role in advancing social welfare expansion. Equivalently, right ideologues have been behind social welfare retrenchment. These effects are the strongest in multiparty and in minority cabinets. In the presence of strict fiscal rules and/or powerful finance ministers, only left partisans have a positive and independent effect on social welfare reform. Importantly, ministerial types explain policy change better than the ideological gravity of cabinets or the partisanship of the premier.Less
This chapter tests the policy role of ministerial types employing three different indicators of social welfare generosity: welfare state de-commodification, unemployment generosity insurance, and sickness generosity insurance. Both hypotheses find strong empirical support in a sample of eighteen parliamentary democracies. Left ideologues and left partisans, alike, have played a central role in advancing social welfare expansion. Equivalently, right ideologues have been behind social welfare retrenchment. These effects are the strongest in multiparty and in minority cabinets. In the presence of strict fiscal rules and/or powerful finance ministers, only left partisans have a positive and independent effect on social welfare reform. Importantly, ministerial types explain policy change better than the ideological gravity of cabinets or the partisanship of the premier.
Despina Alexiadou
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198755715
- eISBN:
- 9780191816864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755715.003.0008
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics
Chapter 8 investigates the role of social affairs, employment, and finance ministers in the Netherlands, starting with the purple coalition in 1994 to the end of the PvdA/CDA grand-coalition in 2009. ...
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Chapter 8 investigates the role of social affairs, employment, and finance ministers in the Netherlands, starting with the purple coalition in 1994 to the end of the PvdA/CDA grand-coalition in 2009. The Netherlands is a consensus political party system where ministers respect the norm of non-intervention, which means that they are allowed to set policy within their own jurisdiction. On the other hand, parliamentary oversight in the Netherlands is expected to seriously limit ministerial policy discretion. Through the investigation of four multiparty governments with variable party composition, this chapter finds important differences among ministerial types, and provide details and insights that cannot be accounted for in the large-n empirical chapters.Less
Chapter 8 investigates the role of social affairs, employment, and finance ministers in the Netherlands, starting with the purple coalition in 1994 to the end of the PvdA/CDA grand-coalition in 2009. The Netherlands is a consensus political party system where ministers respect the norm of non-intervention, which means that they are allowed to set policy within their own jurisdiction. On the other hand, parliamentary oversight in the Netherlands is expected to seriously limit ministerial policy discretion. Through the investigation of four multiparty governments with variable party composition, this chapter finds important differences among ministerial types, and provide details and insights that cannot be accounted for in the large-n empirical chapters.
Despina Alexiadou
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198755715
- eISBN:
- 9780191816864
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198755715.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy, Comparative Politics
Chapter 9 investigates the policy role of Greek ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance. Starting in 1981 to the year 2000, the chapter study four social democratic single-party majority ...
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Chapter 9 investigates the policy role of Greek ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance. Starting in 1981 to the year 2000, the chapter study four social democratic single-party majority cabinets. Greece was at a very different developmental level in the eighties, both in terms of democratic institutions but also in terms of its social welfare and labor market policies than the rest of Western Europe. As such, by studying Greece, this chapter tests the impact of ministerial types in polities that do not meet the political and socio-economic standards of Northern European countries. The main finding is that ministers are dominated by the prime minister and ministerial tenure is brief. As a result, more loyalists are appointed but also ideologues and partisans are not successful in adopting their policy agenda as in Ireland and the Netherlands.Less
Chapter 9 investigates the policy role of Greek ministers of social affairs, employment, and finance. Starting in 1981 to the year 2000, the chapter study four social democratic single-party majority cabinets. Greece was at a very different developmental level in the eighties, both in terms of democratic institutions but also in terms of its social welfare and labor market policies than the rest of Western Europe. As such, by studying Greece, this chapter tests the impact of ministerial types in polities that do not meet the political and socio-economic standards of Northern European countries. The main finding is that ministers are dominated by the prime minister and ministerial tenure is brief. As a result, more loyalists are appointed but also ideologues and partisans are not successful in adopting their policy agenda as in Ireland and the Netherlands.
Alan Bollard
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198846000
- eISBN:
- 9780191881244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198846000.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
The chapter opens in 1936 with rebel soldiers of the Japanese Army creeping through the snow to assassinate the elderly Japanese Minister of Finance, Takahashi Korekiyo. He was a remarkable ...
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The chapter opens in 1936 with rebel soldiers of the Japanese Army creeping through the snow to assassinate the elderly Japanese Minister of Finance, Takahashi Korekiyo. He was a remarkable self-taught Japanese, many times Minister of Finance, who learned his economic and financial skills raising funding in European markets to finance the Japanese-Russian War. He managed bank crises and saved his country from the Great Depression with an innovative range of pre-Keynesian macroeconomic policies. However his attempts to cut military spending ran into intense opposition from the Japanese military who were intent on invading Manchuria, and a group of fanatic soldiers ultimately assassinated him.Less
The chapter opens in 1936 with rebel soldiers of the Japanese Army creeping through the snow to assassinate the elderly Japanese Minister of Finance, Takahashi Korekiyo. He was a remarkable self-taught Japanese, many times Minister of Finance, who learned his economic and financial skills raising funding in European markets to finance the Japanese-Russian War. He managed bank crises and saved his country from the Great Depression with an innovative range of pre-Keynesian macroeconomic policies. However his attempts to cut military spending ran into intense opposition from the Japanese military who were intent on invading Manchuria, and a group of fanatic soldiers ultimately assassinated him.
Ngaire Woods
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231156868
- eISBN:
- 9780231527651
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231156868.003.0014
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
Both the enthusiasts and critics of the G20 are united in their characterization of the leaders group as an incipient institution of global governance. This chapter presents a different view. First, ...
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Both the enthusiasts and critics of the G20 are united in their characterization of the leaders group as an incipient institution of global governance. This chapter presents a different view. First, it probes the origins of the G20 and uses evidence from the earlier G20 finance minister's group to examine whether the G20 has broadened or narrowed agenda-setting in global governance. Second, it considers how the representativeness of the G20 might be expanded in an innovative way. Finally, it returns to the question of whether the G20 needs to be more representative, arguing that a closer investigation of its role suggests it could be more responsive but need not necessarily be more representative.Less
Both the enthusiasts and critics of the G20 are united in their characterization of the leaders group as an incipient institution of global governance. This chapter presents a different view. First, it probes the origins of the G20 and uses evidence from the earlier G20 finance minister's group to examine whether the G20 has broadened or narrowed agenda-setting in global governance. Second, it considers how the representativeness of the G20 might be expanded in an innovative way. Finally, it returns to the question of whether the G20 needs to be more representative, arguing that a closer investigation of its role suggests it could be more responsive but need not necessarily be more representative.
Amory Starr, Luis A. Fernandez, and Christian Scholl
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814740996
- eISBN:
- 9780814738351
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814740996.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to ...
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Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors of this book have directly observed and participated in more than twenty mass actions against globalization in North America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in Heiligendamm. This is the first book to conceptualize the social control of dissent in the era of alterglobalization. Based on direct observation of more than twenty global summits, the book demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of criminality. The charge is insurrection, but the accused have no weapons. The book documents how social control forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges.Less
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors of this book have directly observed and participated in more than twenty mass actions against globalization in North America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in Heiligendamm. This is the first book to conceptualize the social control of dissent in the era of alterglobalization. Based on direct observation of more than twenty global summits, the book demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of criminality. The charge is insurrection, but the accused have no weapons. The book documents how social control forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges.
Ulrich Volz
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013994
- eISBN:
- 9780262265980
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013994.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
East Asian countries were notably uninterested in regional monetary integration until the late 1990s, when the Asian financial crisis revealed the fragility of the region’s exchange rate arrangements ...
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East Asian countries were notably uninterested in regional monetary integration until the late 1990s, when the Asian financial crisis revealed the fragility of the region’s exchange rate arrangements and highlighted the need for a stronger regional financial architecture. Since then, the countries of East Asia have begun taking steps to explore monetary and financial cooperation, establishing such initiatives as regular consultations among finance ministers and central bank governors and the pooling of foreign exchange reserves. This book investigates the prospects for monetary cooperation and integration in East Asia, using state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical tools to analyze the most promising policy options. It points out that monetary cooperation can be defined broadly to include options ranging from informal policy consultations to European-style monetary union. The book recommends a gradual approach toward monetary integration in East Asia, one that pursues less extensive forms of monetary cooperation before tackling such highly challenging projects as a regional exchange rate system or a regional monetary union. The simpler, less demanding forms of policy coordination would, it argues, allow East Asian countries to develop an integrationist spirit and gain experience in cooperation. Monetary integration is not an end in itself, the book reminds us, but a means to promote economic and financial development and create a stable macroeconomic environment that is conducive to investment and growth. After providing an in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits of monetary integration, it examines different options for East Asian countries.Less
East Asian countries were notably uninterested in regional monetary integration until the late 1990s, when the Asian financial crisis revealed the fragility of the region’s exchange rate arrangements and highlighted the need for a stronger regional financial architecture. Since then, the countries of East Asia have begun taking steps to explore monetary and financial cooperation, establishing such initiatives as regular consultations among finance ministers and central bank governors and the pooling of foreign exchange reserves. This book investigates the prospects for monetary cooperation and integration in East Asia, using state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical tools to analyze the most promising policy options. It points out that monetary cooperation can be defined broadly to include options ranging from informal policy consultations to European-style monetary union. The book recommends a gradual approach toward monetary integration in East Asia, one that pursues less extensive forms of monetary cooperation before tackling such highly challenging projects as a regional exchange rate system or a regional monetary union. The simpler, less demanding forms of policy coordination would, it argues, allow East Asian countries to develop an integrationist spirit and gain experience in cooperation. Monetary integration is not an end in itself, the book reminds us, but a means to promote economic and financial development and create a stable macroeconomic environment that is conducive to investment and growth. After providing an in-depth analysis of the costs and benefits of monetary integration, it examines different options for East Asian countries.
Jean Bingen
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748615780
- eISBN:
- 9780748670727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748615780.003.0018
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter offers an anthropological and sociological exploration of a single document from the Zenon archive, concerning the large estate given by Ptolemy II to his finance minister Apollonios and ...
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This chapter offers an anthropological and sociological exploration of a single document from the Zenon archive, concerning the large estate given by Ptolemy II to his finance minister Apollonios and managed by successive local agents of Apollonios. Egyptian tenants on part of this land, faced with a sudden change in the method of estimating their rent imposed by the estate management, which went against normal Egyptian farming practice and imposed on the cultivators the risk of a crop smaller than estimated, abandoned the land and took refuge in a temple. Confronted by a managerial technique derived from Greek financial practices, they refuse to adapt.Less
This chapter offers an anthropological and sociological exploration of a single document from the Zenon archive, concerning the large estate given by Ptolemy II to his finance minister Apollonios and managed by successive local agents of Apollonios. Egyptian tenants on part of this land, faced with a sudden change in the method of estimating their rent imposed by the estate management, which went against normal Egyptian farming practice and imposed on the cultivators the risk of a crop smaller than estimated, abandoned the land and took refuge in a temple. Confronted by a managerial technique derived from Greek financial practices, they refuse to adapt.
Alan Bollard
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198846000
- eISBN:
- 9780191881244
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198846000.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
Economists at War tells the story of a group of remarkable economists, and how they used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the turbulent period covering the ...
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Economists at War tells the story of a group of remarkable economists, and how they used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the turbulent period covering the Chinese–Japanese War, World War I, and the Cold War. Politicians and generals cannot win wars if they do not have resources. This book focuses on the lives and achievements of seven finance ministers, advisors, and central bankers from Japan, China, Germany, the UK, the USSR, and the US. They all had connections, and their stories are interlinked. 1935–55 was a time of conflict, confrontation and destruction. It was also the time when the skills of economists were called upon to finance the military, to identify economic vulnerabilities, to help reconstruction. Economics was first used as a policy tool, and economists started to gain importance: macroeconomics, managerial economics, and computing were all born during this time. The reader sees the struggle to raise funds by taxing peasants, controlling banks, working in disrupted debt markets, inflating currencies, and cajoling aid-givers. There is tension between civilian resources and military requirements. There are desperate attempts to control economies wracked with inflation, depression, political argument, and fighting. There are clever schemes to evade sanctions, develop barter trade, and use economic espionage.There are struggles to apply good economic policy in the regimes of despots like Stalin, Hitler, and Chiang Kai-shek.. This book will interest economists, devotees of military history, and interested lay readers alike. It is a book about economics, but it is also a human story.Less
Economists at War tells the story of a group of remarkable economists, and how they used their skills to help their countries fight their battles during the turbulent period covering the Chinese–Japanese War, World War I, and the Cold War. Politicians and generals cannot win wars if they do not have resources. This book focuses on the lives and achievements of seven finance ministers, advisors, and central bankers from Japan, China, Germany, the UK, the USSR, and the US. They all had connections, and their stories are interlinked. 1935–55 was a time of conflict, confrontation and destruction. It was also the time when the skills of economists were called upon to finance the military, to identify economic vulnerabilities, to help reconstruction. Economics was first used as a policy tool, and economists started to gain importance: macroeconomics, managerial economics, and computing were all born during this time. The reader sees the struggle to raise funds by taxing peasants, controlling banks, working in disrupted debt markets, inflating currencies, and cajoling aid-givers. There is tension between civilian resources and military requirements. There are desperate attempts to control economies wracked with inflation, depression, political argument, and fighting. There are clever schemes to evade sanctions, develop barter trade, and use economic espionage.There are struggles to apply good economic policy in the regimes of despots like Stalin, Hitler, and Chiang Kai-shek.. This book will interest economists, devotees of military history, and interested lay readers alike. It is a book about economics, but it is also a human story.
Alan Bollard
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198846000
- eISBN:
- 9780191881244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198846000.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
The assassination sent shockwaves through China, and soon led to the 1937 invasion by Japan. H. H. Kung was an American-educated Minister of Finance in the turbulent China of the 1930s. He was a ...
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The assassination sent shockwaves through China, and soon led to the 1937 invasion by Japan. H. H. Kung was an American-educated Minister of Finance in the turbulent China of the 1930s. He was a member of the famous Soong family—both Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek were brothers-in-law, and his wife was the richest woman in China. As the Japanese invaded, the economy in China progressively worsened. With little regard for the law, Kung proved adept at raising revenue by forcing Chinese to pay taxes, by bank fraud, by manipulating the currency, always with something on the side for him and his family. As the war worsened, he extracted aid dollars from the American taxpayer. When the Communists took power Kung reinvented himself as a wealthy Wall Street banker.Less
The assassination sent shockwaves through China, and soon led to the 1937 invasion by Japan. H. H. Kung was an American-educated Minister of Finance in the turbulent China of the 1930s. He was a member of the famous Soong family—both Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek were brothers-in-law, and his wife was the richest woman in China. As the Japanese invaded, the economy in China progressively worsened. With little regard for the law, Kung proved adept at raising revenue by forcing Chinese to pay taxes, by bank fraud, by manipulating the currency, always with something on the side for him and his family. As the war worsened, he extracted aid dollars from the American taxpayer. When the Communists took power Kung reinvented himself as a wealthy Wall Street banker.
Charles A. Hale
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804758765
- eISBN:
- 9780804786836
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804758765.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This book presents an intellectual and career biography of Emilio Rabasa, the eminent Mexican jurist, politician, novelist, diplomat, journalist, and historian who opposed the Revolution of 1910–20, ...
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This book presents an intellectual and career biography of Emilio Rabasa, the eminent Mexican jurist, politician, novelist, diplomat, journalist, and historian who opposed the Revolution of 1910–20, spent the years 1914 to 1920 in exile, but returned and was reintegrated into Mexican life until his death in 1930. Though he is still idolized by the juridical community of Mexico City, little is known about Rabasa beyond his principal publications. He was a reserved, enigmatic man who kept no personal archive and sought a low public profile. The book reveals unknown aspects of his life, career, and personality from two extensive bodies of correspondence—with Jos Yves Limantour, finance minister from 1893 to 1911; and William F. Buckley, Sr., American lawyer and petroleum entrepreneur. It also analyzes Rabasa's political, juridical, and social ideas, arguing that they demonstrate continuity and even survival of late nineteenth-century liberalism through the revolutionary years and beyond. Rabasa's was a transformed liberalism, based on scientific politics drawn from European positivism and historical constitutionalism—an elitist rejection of abstract doctrines of natural rights and egalitarian democracy, emphasizing strong centralized yet constitutionally limited authority and empirically-based economic development.Less
This book presents an intellectual and career biography of Emilio Rabasa, the eminent Mexican jurist, politician, novelist, diplomat, journalist, and historian who opposed the Revolution of 1910–20, spent the years 1914 to 1920 in exile, but returned and was reintegrated into Mexican life until his death in 1930. Though he is still idolized by the juridical community of Mexico City, little is known about Rabasa beyond his principal publications. He was a reserved, enigmatic man who kept no personal archive and sought a low public profile. The book reveals unknown aspects of his life, career, and personality from two extensive bodies of correspondence—with Jos Yves Limantour, finance minister from 1893 to 1911; and William F. Buckley, Sr., American lawyer and petroleum entrepreneur. It also analyzes Rabasa's political, juridical, and social ideas, arguing that they demonstrate continuity and even survival of late nineteenth-century liberalism through the revolutionary years and beyond. Rabasa's was a transformed liberalism, based on scientific politics drawn from European positivism and historical constitutionalism—an elitist rejection of abstract doctrines of natural rights and egalitarian democracy, emphasizing strong centralized yet constitutionally limited authority and empirically-based economic development.