Ashwani Deshpande
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198072034
- eISBN:
- 9780199081028
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198072034.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This book examines the contemporary nature of caste disparities in India by using a framework that integrates discussions on caste from other social science disciplines with those from within ...
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This book examines the contemporary nature of caste disparities in India by using a framework that integrates discussions on caste from other social science disciplines with those from within economics. It brings together quantitative evidence on different dimensions of caste disparities based on two large national-level data sets, in order to analyse the degree of change in the caste system over the last two decades. Offering evidence based on economic analysis, it questions commonly-held views and challenges traditional wisdom. The chapter uses the latest methods that allow researchers to gauge discrimination and shows how some of these methods have been used in the Indian context and what the quest has yielded. The chapter constructs a multifaceted ‘Caste Development Index’ that allows a broader assessment and comparison of the standard of living of caste groups across states and time. Finally, the book also discusses policy responses to disparities and discrimination by reviewing the existing quota system.Less
This book examines the contemporary nature of caste disparities in India by using a framework that integrates discussions on caste from other social science disciplines with those from within economics. It brings together quantitative evidence on different dimensions of caste disparities based on two large national-level data sets, in order to analyse the degree of change in the caste system over the last two decades. Offering evidence based on economic analysis, it questions commonly-held views and challenges traditional wisdom. The chapter uses the latest methods that allow researchers to gauge discrimination and shows how some of these methods have been used in the Indian context and what the quest has yielded. The chapter constructs a multifaceted ‘Caste Development Index’ that allows a broader assessment and comparison of the standard of living of caste groups across states and time. Finally, the book also discusses policy responses to disparities and discrimination by reviewing the existing quota system.
Emma Griffin
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263211
- eISBN:
- 9780191734427
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263211.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter discusses two distinct forms of street recreation in the century that followed the Restoration. It begins with the almost forgotten tradition of bull-baiting in the early modern market ...
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This chapter discusses two distinct forms of street recreation in the century that followed the Restoration. It begins with the almost forgotten tradition of bull-baiting in the early modern market place. The chapter also looks at the civic celebrations and street bonfires, which were made familiar in frequent descriptions by eighteenth-century urban elites and modern historians. It looks at the subtle changes in the ways civic authorities regarded these pastimes during the period.Less
This chapter discusses two distinct forms of street recreation in the century that followed the Restoration. It begins with the almost forgotten tradition of bull-baiting in the early modern market place. The chapter also looks at the civic celebrations and street bonfires, which were made familiar in frequent descriptions by eighteenth-century urban elites and modern historians. It looks at the subtle changes in the ways civic authorities regarded these pastimes during the period.
Maureen D. McKelvey
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198297246
- eISBN:
- 9780191685316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198297246.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation, Knowledge Management
This chapter analyses parallel historical technological innovation processes in order to develop more general theories and comments about technological change in modern market economies. A ...
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This chapter analyses parallel historical technological innovation processes in order to develop more general theories and comments about technological change in modern market economies. A technological innovation process means the process whereby agents act to transform new knowledge, inventions, and/or scientific techniques into economic value, often through products, production processes, and/or changes to the organization. The focus here therefore is not on why a product is successful in a market or why a technology functions but is instead on the scientific, technological, and other knowledge-seeking activities enabling technical change. It is argued that innovation processes are constituted by many knowledge-seeking activities, whereby agents' perceptions and actions are translated into practice. Evolution as defined here draws on an explicit comparison of evolutionary theories for biology and socio-economic phenomena. The perspective of evolutionary innovation has close ties to evolutionary economics but also to other social sciences.Less
This chapter analyses parallel historical technological innovation processes in order to develop more general theories and comments about technological change in modern market economies. A technological innovation process means the process whereby agents act to transform new knowledge, inventions, and/or scientific techniques into economic value, often through products, production processes, and/or changes to the organization. The focus here therefore is not on why a product is successful in a market or why a technology functions but is instead on the scientific, technological, and other knowledge-seeking activities enabling technical change. It is argued that innovation processes are constituted by many knowledge-seeking activities, whereby agents' perceptions and actions are translated into practice. Evolution as defined here draws on an explicit comparison of evolutionary theories for biology and socio-economic phenomena. The perspective of evolutionary innovation has close ties to evolutionary economics but also to other social sciences.
Qiwen Lu
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198295372
- eISBN:
- 9780191685101
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295372.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, International Business, Innovation
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises — the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall ...
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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises — the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall Computer Group — transformed the Chinese computer industry over the past decade. It explains how indigenous Chinese business enterprises that developed during the era of economic reform gained the high-technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how to compete domestically and internationally with powerful foreign multinationals. Through case studies based on first-hand access to company records and personnel, this book reveals how, building on technological capabilities accumulated during the central planning era, the institutional transformations of the economic reform era unleashed a unique pattern of organizational learning and innovative enterprise. This book also draws out the implications of the developmental experience of the Chinese computer electronics sector for understanding the institutional and organisational foundations for a successful transition from a centrally planned economy toward a market-oriented one.Less
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of how four innovative Chinese electronics enterprises — the Stone Group, the Legend Computer Group, the Founder Group, and the China Great Wall Computer Group — transformed the Chinese computer industry over the past decade. It explains how indigenous Chinese business enterprises that developed during the era of economic reform gained the high-technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how to compete domestically and internationally with powerful foreign multinationals. Through case studies based on first-hand access to company records and personnel, this book reveals how, building on technological capabilities accumulated during the central planning era, the institutional transformations of the economic reform era unleashed a unique pattern of organizational learning and innovative enterprise. This book also draws out the implications of the developmental experience of the Chinese computer electronics sector for understanding the institutional and organisational foundations for a successful transition from a centrally planned economy toward a market-oriented one.
Lisa Tiersten
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225299
- eISBN:
- 9780520925656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225299.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the antagonism between the marketplace and the French Republic. It argues that from the founding of the first department store at ...
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This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the antagonism between the marketplace and the French Republic. It argues that from the founding of the first department store at mid-century, representatives and proponents of the modern market claimed that it benefited the individual middle-class consumer. It contends that while individualism of the market was its greatest attraction in a society increasingly organized around individuals, it was also its greatest defect in social and political terms.Less
This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the antagonism between the marketplace and the French Republic. It argues that from the founding of the first department store at mid-century, representatives and proponents of the modern market claimed that it benefited the individual middle-class consumer. It contends that while individualism of the market was its greatest attraction in a society increasingly organized around individuals, it was also its greatest defect in social and political terms.
Johan Swinnen and Anneleen Vandeplas
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198732396
- eISBN:
- 9780191796685
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732396.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics, Econometrics
‘Modern’ agricultural markets are characterized by, among other things, quality requirements and vertical coordination. The nature of the industrial organization of the supply chains depends on a ...
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‘Modern’ agricultural markets are characterized by, among other things, quality requirements and vertical coordination. The nature of the industrial organization of the supply chains depends on a variety of factors, such as local institutions, economic growth, demand, institutional infrastructure, and so on. This chapter presents a conceptual framework to explicitly integrate key characteristics of these ‘modern’ agricultural markets and derive implications for price transmission in these markets and value chains particularly with reference to contracts and contract enforcement. These insights extend beyond more standard views of price transmission in vertically related markets which have focused on imperfect competition in the downstream food sector and the role of agricultural/marketing inputs that enter into the food industry cost function. As such, the insights produced here extend the analysis of price transmission to a broader range of settings that characterize global and domestic food chains.Less
‘Modern’ agricultural markets are characterized by, among other things, quality requirements and vertical coordination. The nature of the industrial organization of the supply chains depends on a variety of factors, such as local institutions, economic growth, demand, institutional infrastructure, and so on. This chapter presents a conceptual framework to explicitly integrate key characteristics of these ‘modern’ agricultural markets and derive implications for price transmission in these markets and value chains particularly with reference to contracts and contract enforcement. These insights extend beyond more standard views of price transmission in vertically related markets which have focused on imperfect competition in the downstream food sector and the role of agricultural/marketing inputs that enter into the food industry cost function. As such, the insights produced here extend the analysis of price transmission to a broader range of settings that characterize global and domestic food chains.
Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719066528
- eISBN:
- 9781781701751
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719066528.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter considers Byatt's critical output and its manifold intersections, both with the institutionalised study of literature in university departments and with the modern book market. It ...
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This chapter considers Byatt's critical output and its manifold intersections, both with the institutionalised study of literature in university departments and with the modern book market. It explores Byatt's role as public intellectual and sheds some light on the concept of ‘critical storytelling’. This chapter also describes her commitment to the paradigm of dialogical criticism, or criticism as conversation.Less
This chapter considers Byatt's critical output and its manifold intersections, both with the institutionalised study of literature in university departments and with the modern book market. It explores Byatt's role as public intellectual and sheds some light on the concept of ‘critical storytelling’. This chapter also describes her commitment to the paradigm of dialogical criticism, or criticism as conversation.
