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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labour (and the production of subjectivity). Launch of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

Andrew Murphie I wanted to begin by saying that, for someone like me, who has always been at the edges of these kinds of discussions, this book has been a welcome education. Border as Method comes out of years of work on these issues by both Sandro and Brett. It provides a series of complex and often provocative arguments it's true. However, it does so in the very detailed context of reading and engagement with the thinking/writing of others. I learnt a great deal about borders, and I think even more about labour. And I also learnt a great deal about Marx (and 35 pages of references of...

The Barriers To Innovation and Technological Progress in a Renascent Market Economy

In the last few decades, global competition has been noticeably intensifying and in this competition innovation is increasingly becoming the main trump card. For the Eastern and Central European countries, like Hungary, the transition to a market economy has opened the way to partake in the global innovation competition, and the protagonists of the innovation scene – the entrepreneurs – have strengthened their positions. The barriers to decentralized initiatives are no longer present and the strong financial motivation of innovators no longer limited by egalitarianism of the planned...

Organizational innovations and their behavioral background 1 BALÁZS HÁMORI – KATALIN SZABÓ

Organizational innovations have always played a Cinderella role in the innovation literature, compared to product and technological innovations. Even though the role they play in economic development does not lag behind of these later types at all. Neglecting organizational innovations explains the fact that today there is no consensus about their definitions, about their measuring, about how to interpret them, even though, as a result of the information and communication revolution, networking, this organizational transformation that is fundamentally changing the workings of the economy is...

Great Expectations. The Iranian Economy after the Nuclear Deal

The lifting of sanctions has been a major victory for the Rouhani government, but both the government and Iranian society in general are frustrated by the slow in- crease in actual business and economic investment. There is a gap between what can realistically be expected in terms of the extent and speed of foreign investment into a market lagging behind for more than a decade – and the hyped expectations following the JCPOA. While Iran is on an accelerated path of economic development, major reforms in business practices, state bureaucracy and policies are required to further encourage and...

Continuing divergence after the crisis: long-term regional economic development in the United Kingdom

This study examines the trends of regional economic development in the United Kingdom before, during, and after the economic crisis. The United Kingdom is historically characterised by persistent and significant regional economic disparities, which further grew during the global financial crisis and seem to remain stable at higher levels. Salient features of the economic spatial structure are the well-known North-South divide and, in parallel, Lon-don’s dominance over the rest of the country (the ‘London problem’). Our research is primarily descriptive. Specifically, it combines a...

Implications of work time flexibility for health

Support for labour market flexibility has been growing internationally and in Australia for several decades (Sala et al. 2012; SEO 2013), leading to a more fluid set of working times. Employment and working times are recognised as a determinant of worker health, and while the effects of employment can be positive or negative for health, the distinguishing factor is the quality of the job characteristics, such as hours, income, flexibility, and degree of control (D'Souza et al. 2003). We review evidence regarding the influence of flexible work time on health behaviour and outcomes as...

Persistence in Incarcerations: Global Comparative Evidence

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to assess how incarcerations persist across the world. The focus is on 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. Design/methodology/approach - The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. In order to increase room for policy implications, the dataset is decomposed into sub-samples based on income levels, religious domination, openness to the sea, regional proximity and legal origins. Findings - The following main findings are established. Incarcerations are more persistent in low income, Christian-protestant and Latin American...

Chinese and Islamic Financing in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the component of China’s Belt and Road Initiative which runs through Pakistan, is the largest infrastructure development project in Pakistan’s history. Of the $50 billion budget projected for CPEC, $35 billion is earmarked for energy projects while $15 billion is for infrastructure, industrial zones and mass transit. CPEC is expected increase Pakistan’s GDP and improve infrastructure significantly by increasing the national power grid by an additional 5900 megawatts, expanding the Gwadar Port as well as adding $10 billion worth of railway...

Review of Delgado Wise and Cypher Mexico’s Economic Dilemma

The resource curse and the limited transformative capacity of natural resource-based economies in Africa: evidence from the oil and gas sector in Algeria and implications for innovation policy,

The strong growth and export performance in Africa for the last decade were largely due to higher international commodity prices and did not translate into the broad-based economic and social development needed to reduce poverty and create jobs for the underemployed. In this paper, we assume that this pattern of development can be explained by the weak nature and narrowness of the learning process that developed in relation to natural resource sectors. Lateral migration of knowledge from the natural resource-based sectors remains scarce in Africa. The paper examines the oil and gas sector...