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Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these observations urge us to think of economies and political authority as mutually constitutive, in Russia and beyond. Whereas political science often thinks of market arrangements resulting from political institutions, Russia's marketization demonstrates that political status is also produced by the market arrangements that actors create. Taking this reflexivity seriously suggests a view of economies and markets as constructed and contingent entities.

History --- market --- politics --- electricity system --- economy --- history --- ministry --- marketization --- post-Soviet developmentalism --- Russia

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This volume focuses on a basic paradox: why is it that the so-called 'Spanish economic miracle' -a purportedly secular, rational, and technocratic process - was fictionally portrayed through providential narratives in which supernatural and extraordinary elements were often involved? In order to answer this question, the author examines cultural fictions and social life at the time when Spain turned from autarchy to the project of industrial and tourist development.

Spanish literature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Capitalism in literature. --- Economics in literature. --- Motion pictures --- Social ecology --- Economic development --- Literature. --- Literature: history & criticism. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Spanish developmentalism --- cultural fiction --- social life in Spain --- Spanish economics

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Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumer Throughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a moral project. Drawing on a century of religiously-oriented child care advice in women’s periodicals, he examines how children ultimately came to be understood by mothers—and later, by commercial actors—as consumers. From concerns about taste, to forms of discipline and punishment, to play and toys, Cook delves into the social politics of motherhood, historical anxieties about childhood, and early children’s consumer culture. An engaging read, The Moral Project of Childhood provides a rich cultural history of childhood.

Motherhood. --- Child consumers. --- Consumers. --- Allowances. --- Children’s Rights. --- Children’s rooms. --- Creative Child. --- Depravity. --- Developmentalism. --- Discipline. --- Empathy. --- Feminization. --- Girlhood. --- Malleability. --- Market Research. --- Memory. --- Money. --- Moral architecture. --- Moral project. --- Pedagogy. --- Pleasure. --- Pre-capitalist child. --- Predestination. --- Property. --- Provisioning. --- Punishment. --- Reward. --- Simplicity. --- Subjectivity. --- Taste. --- Value. --- child. --- consumption. --- interiority. --- materiality. --- morality. --- mother.

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Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular country has successfully progressed up the economic development ladder. The authors examine the roles of beliefs, leadership, and institutions in the elusive, critical transition to sustainable development.Analyzing the last fifty years of Brazil's history, the authors explain how the nation's beliefs, centered on social inclusion yet bound by orthodox economic policies, led to institutions that altered economic, political, and social outcomes. Brazil's growth and inflation became less variable, the rule of law strengthened, politics became more open and competitive, and poverty and inequality declined. While these changes have led to a remarkable economic transformation, there have also been economic distortions and inefficiencies that the authors argue are part of the development process.Brazil in Transition demonstrates how a dynamic nation seized windows of opportunity to become a more equal, prosperous, and rules-based society.

E-books --- Brazil --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Politics and government. --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Internal politics --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. --- Argentina. --- Brazil. --- Brazilian economy. --- Brazilian miracle. --- Brazilian society. --- Dilma Rousseff. --- Fernando Henrique Cardoso. --- IPF. --- Luiz Incio Lula da Silva. --- Plano Real. --- beliefs. --- business sector. --- competitive processes. --- conceptual dynamic. --- critical transition. --- critical transitions. --- democracy. --- development. --- developmentalism. --- dominant networks. --- economic development. --- economic policy. --- emerging power. --- illiterates. --- import substitution. --- inductive framework. --- inflation. --- institutional change. --- institutional changes. --- institutional deepening. --- institutional possibility frontiers. --- leadership. --- middle class. --- military government. --- military regime. --- political elites. --- political rights. --- political transition. --- presidency. --- public goods. --- redemocratization. --- reform process. --- social inclusion. --- stasis. --- sustainable development.