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TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the tension between the varieties of capitalism framework and the heterogeneous particularities of the Chinese case, and pointed out that the substantial degree of internal heterogeneity evident in the Chinese cases calls into question those models of capitalism that focus narrowly on institutional coherence at the national scale.
Abstract: Zhang J. and Peck J. Variegated capitalism, Chinese style: regional models, multi-scalar constructions, Regional Studies. The paper explores tensions between the varieties of capitalism framework and the heterogeneous particularities of the Chinese case. Rather than forcing the Chinese model into analytical boxes derived, primarily, from analyses of European and North American capitalism, this complex formation more appropriately can be understood to exist in a ‘triangular’ relationship with the two conventional poles of varieties scholarship, the US-style ‘liberal market’ economy and the German-style ‘coordinated market’ economy. Furthermore, the substantial degree of internal (regional) heterogeneity evident in the Chinese case calls into question those models of capitalism that focus narrowly on institutional coherence at the national scale. Illustrating this point, a range of ‘sub-models’ of Chinese capitalism is examined: regional styles of capitalist development that remain distinct from one another...
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TL;DR: The entrepreneurial role is not necessarily embodied in a single person as mentioned in this paper, but whether all these different functions are combined in one or more persons depends on the nature of capital markets and on the forms of industrial organization.
Abstract: The chief characteristics of the entrepreneur are identified, one of which is the ability to combine already existing resources in creative ways. Distinguishing between "invention" (the discovery of new technical knowledge and its practical application to industry) and "innovation" (the introduction of new technical methods, products, sources of supply, and forms of industrial organization), all disrupting economic change to innovations are traced and the innovator is identified with the entrepreneur. Because the entrepreneur is the source of all economic change, capitalism can be properly understood only in terms of the conditions giving rise to entrepreneurship.The entrepreneurial role is not necessarily embodied in a single person.An entrepreneur may be a capitalist or even a corporate manager, but whether all these different functions are combined in one or more persons depends on the nature of capital markets and on the forms of industrial organization.(SAA)
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12 Mar 2013
TL;DR: Chibber as mentioned in this paper argues that postcolonial theories are based on a series of analytical and historical errors, chief among which is a flawed understanding of capitalism's "universalizing" tendency, and that aspects of modernity that appear to be unique to the South turn out to be shared with the North.
Abstract: In recent years, postcolonial theory has emerged as the most influential scholarly explanation for the historical trajectory and social anatomy of the Global South. Its leading proponents - many of whom have become academic superstars - not only reject Enlightenment political and economic theories, especially Marxism, but accuse them of complicity in Europe's imperial project. In this devastating critique, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory mounted on behalf of the radical Enlightenment tradition. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber carefully examines this project's core arguments about the specificity of the Global South and the deficiencies of Western thought. He shows that their foundational arguments are based on a series of analytical and historical errors, chief among which is a flawed understanding of capitalism's "universalizing" tendency. Once the real history of capital's universalization is reconstructed, aspects of modernity that appear to be unique to the South turn out to be shared with the North - - and the history of the Global South can be explained by the very theories that postcolonial theorists urge us to reject. Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a turning point in contemporary social theory.
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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, critical theory, globalization, and higher education have been studied in the context of higher education in Latin American and Caribbean Universities, with a focus on the challenges faced by national universities in Argentina and Mexico.
Abstract: Contents List of Tables and Figures Contributors Preface: Critical Theory, Globalization, and Higher Education: Political Economy and the Cul- de-sac of the Postmodernist Cultural Turn Raymond Morrow Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Underpinnings Chapter 1: Introduction: Globalization and Higher Education in the Americas Carlos Alberto Torres and Robert A. Rhoads Chapter 2: A World Without War Noam Chomsky Chapter 3: The University in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Democratic and Emancipatory University Reform Boaventura de Sousa Santos Part II: Findings from Particular Countries and Regions Within the Americas Chapter 4: Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Privatization as Shifting the Target of Public Subsidy in Higher Education Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter Chapter 5: Reforming the Reforms: Transformation and Crisis in Latin American and Caribbean Universities Atilio Alberto Boron Chapter 6: Globalization and the Challenge to National Universities in Argentina and Mexico Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, and Andrea Brewster Chapter 7: Latin American Identities in Transition: A Diagnosis of Argentine and Brazilian Universities Marcela Mollis Chapter 8: Brazil's Local Solutions to Global Problems Ken Kempner and Ana Loureiro Jurema Chapter 9: Mexico's Estimulos: Faculty Compensation Based on Piece-Work Estela Mara Bensimon and Imanol Ordorika Chapter 10: Graduate Student Unionization as a Postindustrial Social Movement: Identity, Ideology, and the Contested US Academy Robert A. Rhoads and Gary Rhoades Part III: Concluding Analyses Chapter 11: The Political Economy of Higher Education in the Time of Global Markets: Whither the Social Responsibility of the University? Daniel Schugurensky Chapter 12: The Global Economy, the State, Social Movements, and the University: Concluding Remarks and an Agenda for Action Robert A. Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres References Index
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TL;DR: This paper propose an approach to neoliberalism that prioritizes the experience of the global South, and see neoliberalism gaining its main political strength as a development strategy displacing those hegemonic before the 1970s.
Abstract: Neoliberalism is generally understood as a system of ideas circulated by a network of right-wing intellectuals, or as an economic system mutation resulting from crises of profitability in capitalism. Both interpretations prioritize the global North. We propose an approach to neoliberalism that prioritizes the experience of the global South, and sees neoliberalism gaining its main political strength as a development strategy displacing those hegemonic before the 1970s. From Southern perspectives, a distinct set of issues about neoliberalism becomes central: the formative role of the state, including the military; the expansion of world commodity trade, including minerals; agriculture, informality, and the transformation of rural society. Thinkers from the global South who have foregrounded these issues need close attention from the North and exemplify a new architecture of knowledge in critical social science.
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