04286nam 2200637 a 450 991045314830332120200520144314.00-300-15767-310.12987/9780300157673(CKB)2550000000104960(StDuBDS)AH23050126(SSID)ssj0000721651(PQKBManifestationID)11479218(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000721651(PQKBWorkID)10692776(PQKB)10733227(MiAaPQ)EBC3420903(DE-B1597)486176(OCoLC)952756445(DE-B1597)9780300157673(Au-PeEL)EBL3420903(CaPaEBR)ebr10579302(OCoLC)923598083(EXLCZ)99255000000010496019820429d1982 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe rise and decline of nations[electronic resource] economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities /Mancur OlsonNew Haven Yale University Pressc19821 online resource (276 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-02307-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Questions, and the Standards a Satisfactory Answer Must Meet -- 2. The Logic -- 3. The Implications -- 4. The Developed Democracies Since World War II -- 5. Jurisdictional Integration and Foreign Trade -- 6. Inequality, Discrimination, and Development -- 7. Stagflation, Unemployment, and Business Cycles: An Evolutionary Approach to Macroeconomics -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- IndexThe years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many periods of history and many parts of the world."[T]his elegant, readable book. . . sets out to explain why economies succumb to the 'British disease,' the kind of stagnation and demoralization that is now sweeping Europe and North America. . . . A convincing book that could make a big difference in the way we think about modern economic problems."-Peter Passell, The New York Times Book Review"Schumpeter and Keynes would have hailed the insights Olson gives into the sicknesses of the modern mixed economy."-Paul A. Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"One of the really important books in social science of the past half-century."-Scott Gordon, The Canadian Journal of Economics"The thesis of this brilliant book is that the longer a society enjoys political stability, the more likely it is to develop powerful special-interest lobbies that in turn make it less efficient economically."-Charles Peters, The Washington Monthly"Remarkable. The fundamental ideas are simple, yet they provide insight into a wide array of social and historical issues. . . . The Rise and Decline of Nations promises to be a subject of productive interdisciplinary argument for years to come."-Robert O. Keohane, Journal of Economic Literature"I urgently recommend it to all economists and to a great many non-economists."-Gordon Tullock, Public Choice"Olson's theory is illuminating and there is no doubt that The Rise and Decline of Nations will exert much influence on ideas and politics for many decades to come."-Pierre Lemieux, ReasonCo-winner of the 1983 American Political Science Association's Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book on U.S. national policyEconomic developmentUnemploymentEffect of inflation onCasteIndiaEconomicsElectronic books.Economic development.UnemploymentEffect of inflation on.CasteEconomics.338.9/001Olson Mancur119028MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453148303321The rise and decline of nations2464440UNINA06699oam 22013694a 450 99624812070331620230721192505.01-4008-4348-010.1515/9781400843480(CKB)2660000000000165(dli)HEB05720(SSID)ssj0000333380(PQKBManifestationID)11255822(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333380(PQKBWorkID)10355463(PQKB)10335062(MiAaPQ)EBC6554491(Au-PeEL)EBL6554491(OCoLC)1247668351(OCoLC)558431707(MdBmJHUP)musev2_83505(DE-B1597)577545(DE-B1597)9781400843480(MiU)MIU01000000000000006856779(EXLCZ)99266000000000016519971022d1998 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrOutside the FoldConversion, Modernity, and Belief /Gauri ViswanathanPrinceton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,1998.©1998.1 online resource (xx, 332 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-691-05899-7 0-691-05898-9 Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-315) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Preface --Acknowledgments --Part One DISSENT AND THE NATION --CHAPTER ONE Cross Currents --CHAPTER TWO A Grammar of Dissent --Part Two COLONIAL INTERVENTIONS --CHAPTER THREE Rights of Passage: Converts' Testimonies --CHAPTER FOUR Silencing Heresy --CHAPTER FIVE Ethnographic Plots --CHAPTER SIX Conversion, Theosophy, and Race Theory --Part Three THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY --CHAPTER SEVEN Conversion to Equality --CHAPTER EIGHT Epilogue: The Right to Belief --Appendix --Notes --Select Bibliography --IndexOutside the Fold is a radical reexamination of religious conversion. Gauri Viswanathan skillfully argues that conversion is an interpretive act that belongs in the realm of cultural criticism. To that end, this work examines key moments in colonial and postcolonial history to show how conversion questions the limitations of secular ideologies, particularly the discourse of rights central to both the British empire and the British nation-state. Implicit in such questioning is an attempt to construct an alternative epistemological and ethical foundation of national community. Viswanathan grounds her study in an examination of two simultaneous and, she asserts, linked events: the legal emancipation of religious minorities in England and the acculturation of colonial subjects to British rule. The author views these two apparently disparate events as part of a common pattern of national consolidation that produced the English state. She seeks to explain why resistance, in both cases, frequently took the form of religious conversion, especially to "minority" or alternative religions. Confronting the general characterization of conversion as assimilative and annihilating of identity, Viswanathan demonstrates that a willful change of religion can be seen instead as an act of opposition. Outside the Fold concludes that, as a form of cultural crossing, conversion comes to represent a vital release into difference.Through the figure of the convert, Viswanathan addresses the vexing question of the role of belief and minority discourse in modern society. She establishes new points of contact between the convert as religious dissenter and as colonial subject. This convergence provides a transcultural perspective not otherwise visible in literary and historical texts. It allows for radically new readings of significant figures as diverse as John Henry Newman, Pandita Ramabai, Annie Besant, and B. R. Ambedkar, as well as close studies of court cases, census reports, and popular English fiction. These varying texts illuminate the means by which discourses of religious identity are produced, contained, or opposed by the languages of law, reason, and classificatory knowledge. Outside the Fold is a challenging, provocative contribution to the multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.ACLS Humanities E-Book.KonversionsaoReligionfast(OCoLC)fst01093763Conversionfast(OCoLC)fst00877225ConversionComparative studiesIndiafastEnglandfastEnglandReligionIndiaReligionComparative studies.Advaitism.Anabaptists.Anglicanism.Bengal Regulations.Brahmo Samaj.Calvinism.Catholics.Darwinism.Fabian socialism.Gorham judgment.House of Commons.Jainism.Jesus Christ.Legislative Council.administrative rationality.age (chronological).agnosticism.alienation.anarchy.backsliding.biographical fallacy.blasphemy.church rates.class consciousness.colonialism.cosmopolitanism.dalits.democracy.disestablishment.ecclesiastical authority.egalitarianism.ethnocentrism.excommunication.feminism.foundationalism.fundamentalism.gnostic mysticism.heirship.historiography.iconoclasm.ideology.individualism.inheritance.joint electorates.knowledge-production.literary form.maintenance.materialism.miscegenation.nationalism.occultism.orthodoxy.ostracism.Konversion.Religion.Conversion.Conversion291.42Viswanathan Gauri532288American Council of Learned Societies.MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996248120703316Outside the fold1889389UNISA