Distant Tyranny
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Distant Tyranny
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Author : Regina Grafe
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-08
Distant Tyranny written by Regina Grafe and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-08 with Business & Economics categories.
Spain's development from a premodern society into a modern unified nation-state with an integrated economy was painfully slow and varied widely by region. Economic historians have long argued that high internal transportation costs limited domestic market integration, while at the same time the Castilian capital city of Madrid drew resources from surrounding Spanish regions as it pursued its quest for centralization. According to this view, powerful Madrid thwarted trade over large geographic distances by destroying an integrated network of manufacturing towns in the Spanish interior. Challenging this long-held view, Regina Grafe argues that decentralization, not a strong and powerful Madrid, is to blame for Spain's slow march to modernity. Through a groundbreaking analysis of the market for bacalao--dried and salted codfish that was a transatlantic commodity and staple food during this period--Grafe shows how peripheral historic territories and powerful interior towns obstructed Spain's economic development through jurisdictional obstacles to trade, which exacerbated already high transport costs. She reveals how the early phases of globalization made these regions much more externally focused, and how coastal elites that were engaged in trade outside Spain sought to sustain their positions of power in relation to Madrid. Distant Tyranny offers a needed reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness.
Tyranny Of Distance
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Author : Geoffrey Blainey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Tyranny Of Distance written by Geoffrey Blainey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Australia categories.
The Tyranny Of Distance
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Author : Geoffrey Blainey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Tyranny Of Distance written by Geoffrey Blainey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Australia categories.
Small Island States In The Pacific
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Author : Mr.Chris Becker
language : en
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Small Island States In The Pacific written by Mr.Chris Becker and has been published by International Monetary Fund this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Business & Economics categories.
This paper seeks to document key characteristics of small island states in the Pacific. It restricts itself to a limited number of indicators which are macro-orientated - population, fertility of land, ability to tap into economies of scale, income, and geographic isolation. It leaves aside equally important but more micro-orientated variables and development indicators. We show that small island states in the Pacific are different from countries in other regional groupings in that they are extremely isolated and have limited scope to tap economies of scale due to small populations. They often have little arable land. There is empirical evidence to suggest that these factors are related to income growth.
The Tyranny Of Distance
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Author : Geoffrey Blainey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Tyranny Of Distance written by Geoffrey Blainey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
Tyranny And Revolution
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Author : Waller R. Newell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-19
Tyranny And Revolution written by Waller R. Newell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Philosophy categories.
The Philosophy of Freedom from Rousseau to Heidegger transformed political thought, feeding catastrophic revolution, tyranny and genocide.
The Tyranny Of Metrics
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Author : Jerry Z. Muller
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-30
The Tyranny Of Metrics written by Jerry Z. Muller and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Business & Economics categories.
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our lives Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself—and this tyranny of metrics now threatens the quality of our organizations and lives. In this brief, accessible, and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage metrics are causing and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from business, medicine, education, government, and other fields, the book explains why paying for measured performance doesn't work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. But Muller also shows that, when used as a complement to judgment based on personal experience, metrics can be beneficial, and he includes an invaluable checklist of when and how to use them. The result is an essential corrective to a harmful trend that increasingly affects us all.
The Birth Of The Republic
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Author : Daniel Reaves Goodloe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
The Birth Of The Republic written by Daniel Reaves Goodloe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with United States categories.
International Business In Times Of Crisis
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Author : Rob van Tulder
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-14
International Business In Times Of Crisis written by Rob van Tulder and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-14 with Business & Economics categories.
International Business in Times of Crisis classifies studies of crises relevant to international business research following a global pandemic which exposed systems failures and fragilities closely across global economic, financial, political, and social systems.
The Politics Of Giving In The Viceroyalty Of Rio De La Plata
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Author : Viviana L. Grieco
language : en
Publisher: UNM Press
Release Date : 2014-03-15
The Politics Of Giving In The Viceroyalty Of Rio De La Plata written by Viviana L. Grieco and has been published by UNM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with History categories.
During the eighteenth century, a time of almost constant international warfare, European states had to borrow money to finance their military operations. Servicing public debt demanded the collection of more taxes in a newly efficient manner, resulting in the emergence of what scholars call European “tax states.” This book examines a different kind of state finance, based on voluntary donations rather than taxes. Relying on Spanish and Argentine archival research, the author analyzes the “gifts” (donativos) that residents of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, or colonial Argentina, gave to the Spanish Crown and the city council of Buenos Aires. She examines the cultural, political, constitutional, and legal practices associated with loans and donativos in comparison with the practices of other Atlantic states, emphasizing the quid pro quo offered by the crown in the form of appointments to office and other favors. Examining donors, donations, and expectations, she argues that the Spanish system achieved at the imperial level what the British empire and the French monarchy failed to accomplish.