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Donzé P: Capitalism’s Favorite Child

Capitalism’s Favorite Child

Global Fashion Business since 1850

List of figures List of tables List of boxes Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The emergence of the modern fashion business The global expansion of the commodity trade-wool, cotton, and silk Technological innovation-textile machinery, sewing machines, and artificial colors Standardization of sizes New consumption temples-department stores Conclusion 2. The rise of haute couture or high-end fashion The inventor of a new business: Charles Frederick Worth The heyday of French haute couture (1880-1939) Haute couture as a transnational industry Trade associations in haute couture Conclusion 3. Fashion for the masses Change in consumption habits Clothing industry around the world Networks and large factories Producing fabrics for the European colonies The internalization model in apparel retail: C&amp;A The outsourcing model: M&amp;S Conclusion 4. West meets East and the Rest How British cotton conquered the world and deindustrialized India Japan's Meiji Restoration, selective Westernization, and uniforms Forced opening of China, the Opium Wars, and the Westernization of Chinese culture Chinese and Japanese influences on Western fashion Wax fabrics connected Asia, Europe, and Africa Conclusion 5. American fashion Fur, cotton, and slavery Industrialization and textiles Ready-to-wear The rise of New York fashion The rise of denim Leisure and sportswear Conclusion 6. Fashion, fascism, and the Second World War Italian fascism, fashion, and fibers Nazi autarky, Aryanization, and artificial fibers Japan's fashion during the military dictatorship Paris fashion during the German occupation British-controlled fashion American independence from Paris Conclusion 7. Postwar fashion systems A new business model for Parisian haute couture US fashion industry-mass production, creativity and imitation The emergence of Italian fashion Western fashion and garments in Japan Growth of global apparel industry Conclusion 8. Global fashion: Outsourcing and the end of the production paradigm Global shifts in the textile and apparel industries The rise of global fashion companies Mediatization of fashion The Japanese way Fashion in developing economies Conclusion 9. Fashion conglomerates and fast fashion The rise of LVMH Financialization of luxury fashion brands Fast fashion-retail and production (Un)sustainability and fashion Conclusion 10. Sports to fashion Sportswear and casual style in the United States A German sports-shoemaker conquers Germany-and then the world Game changers-the rise of Nike and Reebok Near-death experience and revival of adidas Marketing of sportswear Fashionalization of adidas Conclusion 11. Digital fashion and global production networks Globalization and global production networks Fashion forecasting: WGSN (London) and Stylesight (New York) E-commerce, fast fashion, and the destruction of traditional retail Mediatization, bloggers, and influencers The Fourth Industrial Revolution in fashion Conclusion Conclusion References Index

Econometric Society Monographs

A Framework for Economists with Policy Aspirations

Minimalist Market Design

Routledge Explorations in Economic History

This book explores late colonial Zimbabwe's troubled transition from colony to independent state from a financial and economic history perspective.

Money, Sanctions and War Economy

Finance in Colonial Zimbabwe

In The Permanent Problem, Brink Lindsey reshapes our understanding of the vital but complex relationship between material prosperity and human flourishing. The advanced capitalist democracies of the 21st century are the richest, freest, healthiest, best educated, and best governed societies in history. Why then does it seem like everything is falling apart? Economic stagnation is spreading, class divisions are deepening, birth rates are collapsing, mental health problems are on the rise, faith in democracy is in decline, and pessimism about the future abounds. In The Permanent Problem, Brink Lindsey argues that these gathering difficulties reflect the stresses and strains of a great and uncompleted historical transition-from mass material prosperity to mass human flourishing. Capitalism's immense productive powers have raised our expectations of what life can be, but for most of us reality is coming up short. What's more, the arrival of mass prosperity has pushed both economic and cultural change in directions that make the transition to mass flourishing much harder to achieve. According to Lindsey, 21st century capitalism is in the grip of three interrelated crises: a crisis of inclusion, as vital social ties and personal connections are breaking down; a crisis of dynamism, as capitalism's engines of innovation and wealth creation have begun to sputter and seize; and a crisis of politics, as the mechanisms for collective decision-making needed to address capitalism's growing problems have been degraded by the very same dynamics that underlie those problems. A much brighter future is possible, and Lindsey charts an intriguing path to get there. There is no need to concoct a radical new social system. Instead, capitalism needs to be refocused on its core mission of extending the technological frontier, and rebalanced through the revitalization of face-to-face communities. Weaving together insights from history, economics, sociology, and philosophy, The Permanent Problem offers a synoptic overview of our fateful present moment and a provocative glimpse at what may lie ahead.

The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing

The Permanent Problem

A dazzling exploration of the phenomenon of prediction betting markets that asks: what happens when democracy becomes another commodity? For many, Donald Trump's decisive election victory over Kamala Harris in 2024 was a shock. Traditional polls had the race on a razor's edge. But, for those with eyes on prediction betting markets, a very different story was being told. In recent years, prediction markets have swept the world, fundamentally changing the nature of the gambling market, and making their youthful pioneers billionaires. Posed as binary 'Yes/No' questions about future events, prediction bets allow any difference of opinion - whether on politics, wars, assassinations or popular culture - to be financialised. But are these markets really a new phenomenon? What does it mean when markets get closer to the truth than the institutions we built to protect us? And what happens when those tasked with safeguarding democracy possess financial stakes in its volatility? From Renaissance Rome, where merchants wagered on papal conclaves, through London coffee house gossip during the Napoleonic Wars, to the Pentagon's ill-fated terrorism futures exchange, The Big Bet describes the full five-hundred-year arc of a permissive regime which no one designed and no one voted for. Drawing on deep expertise, Michael Auerbach examines how these markets are changing our world, and what they mean for the future of our democratic self-governance. Because they are not an anomaly - they are the logical endpoint of a society that has applied market capitalism to every aspect of life. And in a world when everything is a wager and nothing is off limits, knowing where the chips will fall matters more than ever.

Prediction Markets and the Future of Democracy

The Big Bet

World Economies

For most of the postwar period South Africa has been the largest economy in Africa, with relatively high levels of industrialization, a modern banking and financial sector and a globally significant mining industry. However, today discussion of its economy is dominated by its widespread poverty, high unemployment and extreme inequality - inequality which still exhibits strong racial lines despite the emergence of a new black elite and middle class. Indeed, amongst the countries with reliable measures, South Africa ranks as the most unequal country in the world. Sam Ashman provides a penetrating and insightful survey of South Africa's postwar economic history, in particular its economic development since 1994, when the African National Congress came to office and universal adult suffrage was finally introduced. The book examines both the legacy of the apartheid era political economy, as well as the impact of financial and trade liberalization since the 1990s, and the privatization and corporate restructuring that have, if anything, deepened the structural economic challenges the country now faces. Key features of the economy are examined in turn, including the continuing importance of mining and the export of primary commodities; the liberalization and financialization of the economy and the deindustrialization arising from that; the dominance of oligopolies in major sectors; and the ongoing crises of poverty, unemployment and rising inequality.

The South African Economy

An economic history of postwar South Africa, with particular focus on the modern post-apartheid period.

Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe. Years spent learning from a skilled master were a nearly universal experience for young workers in crafts and trade. In England, when apprenticeship reached its peak, as many as a third of all teenage males would serve and learn as apprentices. In The Market for Skill, Patrick Wallis shows how apprenticeship helped reshape the English economy. Some historians see apprenticeship as a key ingredient in the industrial revolution; others agree with Adam Smith in seeing it as wasteful and conservative. Wallis shows that neither of these perspectives is entirely accurate. He offers a new account of apprenticeship and the market for skill in England, analyzing the records of hundreds of thousands of individual apprentices to tell the story of how apprenticeship worked and how it contributed to the transformation of England. Wallis details the activities of apprentices and masters, the strategies of ambitious parents, the interventions of guilds and the decisions of town officials. He shows how the system of early modern apprenticeship contributed to the growth of cities, the movement of workers from farms to manufacturing and the spread of new technologies and productive knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Wallis argues that apprenticeship succeeded precisely because it was a flexible institution which allowed apprentices to change their minds and exit contracts early. Apprenticeship provided a vital channel for training that families could trust and that was accessible to most young people, whatever their background.

Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England

The Market for Skill

At the intersection of economic and political history, this book explores the pivotal role of the Irish diaspora in the development of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It examines the strategies their respective authorities used to harness it. While post-partition efforts were limited, from the 1950s onward both Irelands successfully engaged diaspora business elites to attract investment and stimulate growth. Highlighting the discreet yet decisive influence of powerful Irish-American businessmen, the study analyses their complex interactions with Irish policymakers. Marked by mutual interests, strategic collaboration, and subtle power dynamics, these relationships played a crucial role at key moments in Ireland’s economic history.Drawing on a century of previously unpublished archival sources from Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the United States, including government records, parliamentary papers, and contemporary press, this book provides fresh comparative insights into the economic policies of the two Irelands and the enduring impact of the diaspora on Ireland-US relations. Offering a rigorous and engaging analysis, this book demonstrates how the entrepreneurial networks of the Irish diaspora have been instrumental in shaping modern Ireland. It is essential reading for scholars in economic and business history, Irish history, and diaspora studies.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anne Groutel
 is a Full Professor of English-Speaking World Studies at the University of Rouen, France. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Her research expertise covers the economic history of both Irelands since partition; strategies of the Irish state regarding economic development; political and economic relations between the two Irelands; the influence of the United States and the Irish-American diaspora on the Irish economy; and Ireland’s economic diplomacy and soft power strategies. She is the author of 
 La coopération économique entre les deux Irlandes
 (PUC, 2003) and co-editor of 
 Revisiting the UK and Ireland’s Transatlantic Economic Relationship with the United States in the 21st Century: Beyond Sentimental Rhetoric
 (Palgrave, 2017). She has also co-edited 
 Ireland and Soft Power: Roots, Reach, Realities
 , to be published in 2026 by Manchester University Press.

The Politics and Economics of a Self-Serving Attachment

The Two Irelands and the Diaspora

Strategic Visual Merchandising with STUDIO

Silent Selling

Little Books of Fashion

From timeless polos and enduring knitwear to celebrated partnerships at Wimbledon and the Olympics, Ralph Lauren represents quality, consistency and style. Redefining everyday luxury while embodying a lifestyle of understated elegance, the brand offers everything from relaxed boat shoes to refined tailoring fit for the Met Gala. Rooted in equestrian heritage and Ivy League tradition, Ralph Lauren has become a symbol of subtle sophistication and a wardrobe mainstay for icons such as Zendaya, Gwyneth Paltrow and Diane Keaton. Through a carefully curated selection of over 100 photographs - including catwalk, archive, advertising, red carpet and street style looks - accompanied by expert text, Little Book of Ralph Lauren charts the rise and rise of an all-American fashion legend.

The story of the iconic fashion house

Little Book of Ralph Lauren

Queer Fashion and Masculinities in India

Capitalism’s Favorite Child

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