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Zreik M: Qatar's Role in China's Belt
and Road Initiative

Qatar's Role in China's Belt and Road Initiative

Bridging Two Economic Titans

Structuralism, Dependency Theory, and Sustainable Development Goals

Economics of Sustainable Growth

The discovery of major offshore oil reserves in 2015 set Guyana on a transformative path, culminating in the establishment of its oil industry and positioning the country among the world’s top producers per capita. This rapid ascent contrasts sharply with decades of underdevelopment, when the country remained at the bottom of the global ladder despite its rich natural resources. Today, Guyana faces the dual challenge of managing newfound wealth and safeguarding against the resource curse and Dutch disease, all within a context of political polarization, ethnic diversity, and governance distress.
 
 This book examines the democratic foundations essential for stability and development, focusing on electoral system design and reform. It explores twelve systems in practice worldwide, the nuanced properties that shape electoral outcomes, and the implications of diversity for inclusive governance. The chapters also explore election management structures, which are critical to democratic legitimacy and fairness.
 
 Drawing on international experience and a growing body of literature, this book argues that Guyana’s development ambitions hinge on institutional strengthening—beginning with electoral reform. Electoral reform would take a targeted approach to improving fairness, reducing zero-sum governance, and creating conditions for sustainable democracy. The resulting book underscores the need for a comprehensive, consultative process and highlights the enduring roles of civil society and political elites in shaping institutional change.
 Desmond Thomas
 is an economist and former Lead Economics Specialist with the Inter-American Development Bank. He was a lecturer in economics at the University of the West Indies, an adjunct professor at the University of Trent, Ontario, Canada, and Florida International University (FIU), a visiting scholar at the Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU, and Wolfson College Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University. He is a coeditor of Economic Challenges in Early 21st Century Guyana (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

The discovery of major offshore oil reserves in 2015 set Guyana on a transformative path, culminating in the establishment of its oil industry and positioning the country among the world’s top producers per capita. This rapid ascent contrasts sharply with decades of underdevelopment, when the country remained at the bottom of the global ladder despite its rich natural resources. Today, Guyana faces the dual challenge of managing newfound wealth and safeguarding against the resource curse and Dutch disease, all within a context of political polarization, ethnic diversity, and governance distress.
 
 This book examines the democratic foundations essential for stability and development, focusing on electoral system design and reform. It explores twelve systems in practice worldwide, the nuanced properties that shape electoral outcomes, and the implications of diversity for inclusive governance. The chapters also explore election management structures, which are critical to democratic legitimacy and fairness.
 
 Drawing on international experience and a growing body of literature, this book argues that Guyana’s development ambitions hinge on institutional strengthening—beginning with electoral reform. Electoral reform would take a targeted approach to improving fairness, reducing zero-sum governance, and creating conditions for sustainable democracy. The resulting book underscores the need for a comprehensive, consultative process and highlights the enduring roles of civil society and political elites in shaping institutional change.

Electoral Reform for a Stable Democracy in Guyana

Oil, Diversity, and Electoral Justice

Neue ökonomische Grundrisse

The second edition of this instructive and thought-provoking guide to the theory and practice of corporate financial decision making has been completely revised and up-dated. In particular, the many and varied changes to financial and capital markets have been worked into the application-orientated chapters together with additional diagrams and tables. The book's chapters on theoretical models have been enhanced with further examples, each ending with a practical exercise the solution to which will be made available online.
 

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Unternehmensfinanzierung und Kapitalmarkt

“Seddon and Imsirovic provide a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the actors, institutions, and conflicts that make up the ‘pay-to-play’ governance system of the Brent price benchmark. Their book deserves to be widely read.”
 —William Boyd
 , Michael J. Klein Chair in Law, UCLA
 
 “
 The Governed Price of Oil
 is a lighthouse for understanding prices, the heart of markets, and the organizing force of contemporary economies. A must read for understanding economies revolving around the sun of prices.”
 —Koray Çalışkan
 , The New School, and author of 
 Market Threads
 “‘Prices are made, not found’—the key argument of this fascinating study. Seddon and Imsirovic take us behind the scenes of oil prices of huge economic and geopolitical significance.”
 —Donald MacKenzie
 , University of Edinburgh, and author of 
 
 An Engine, Not a Camera
 
 The price of oil is not discovered—it is made. Benchmarks like Brent crude are produced for profit, from information supplied by the very firms with an interest in shaping them. How can such a price be trusted, and who governs it?
 
 This book argues that benchmark authority rests on a “pay-to-play” bargain: firms bear the costs of price making because access confers influence, information, and trading advantage, while governors such as Platts and ICE set the rules. Those rules must channel traders’ opportunism, not eliminate it—too little latitude and participation withers; too much and the system curdles into manipulation. Comparing Brent with rival benchmarks, enduring and failed, and combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and insider interviews, this book reveals how the price that moves the world economy is actually made.
 Jack Seddon
 is Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Waseda University, Japan. A former capital markets lawyer, he holds an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published widely on market structure and governance.
 Adi Imsirovic
 lectures on the Master’s in Energy Systems at the University of Oxford and is a Senior Associate at CSIS, Washington. With 35 years in oil trading—including as global head of oil at Gazprom Marketing &amp; Trading—he has authored several books on international oil markets.

"This timely and important book reveals how one of the world's most important prices—the Brent Crude oil price benchmark—is made. Seddon and Imsirovic provide a sophisticated and empirically rich account of the actors, institutions, and conflicts that make up the 'pay-to-play' governance system of the Brent price benchmark. Their book deserves to be widely read."— William Boyd
 , Michael J. Klein Chair in Law, UCLA
 &nbsp;
 "The 
 Governed Price of Oil
 is a lighthouse for understanding prices, the heart of markets and the organizing force of contemporary economies. It shows us that prices are not set but made, governed, and contested. A must-read for understanding economies revolving around the sun of prices."
 — Koray Çalışkan
 , The New School, author of 
 Market Threads&nbsp;"'Prices are made, not found'—that's the key argument of this fascinating study. Combining insider interviews, econometric modelling and political-economy insights, Seddon and Imsirovic take us behind the scenes of the setting of benchmark oil prices that are of huge economic and geopolitical significance."— Donald MacKenzie
 , University of Edinburgh, author of 
 An Engine, Not a Camera 
 The price of oil is not discovered—it is made. Benchmarks like Brent crude are produced for profit, from information supplied by the very firms with an interest in shaping them. How can such a price be trusted, and who governs it?
 This book argues that benchmark authority rests on a “pay-to-play” bargain: firms bear the costs of price making because access confers influence, information, and trading advantage, while governors such as Platts and ICE set the rules. Those rules must channel traders’ opportunism, not eliminate it—too little latitude and participation withers; too much and the system curdles into manipulation. Comparing Brent with rival benchmarks, enduring and failed, and combining quantitative analysis, archival research, and insider interviews, this book reveals how the price that moves the world economy is actually made.

Power, Rules and the Making of the Brent Benchmark

The Governed Price of Oil

Relationships in trade and investment between Europe, the United States, and sub-Saharan Africa have long been asymmetrical, marked by systemic overcharges, underpayments, and exploitative practices. This book highlights a concept called kleptomation: a systematic, sustained theft of labor, resources, and wealth. Chapters examine the depth, breadth, and persistence of this economic injustice, exploring the inauthentic accumulation of wealth on the part of the West over the course of several hundred years.In the book, economist Richard F.&nbsp;America&nbsp;proposes a unified framework for reparations to address centuries of wrongful enrichment, illicit transactions, and hidden subsidies that have fueled Western prosperity. This framework is clearly defined and grounded in redistributive economic justice. Acknowledging previous attempts to repair the damage caused by kleptomation, this book presents a 40-year plan that international development executives, policymakers, and program managers can use to scale up capital transfers for development programs in Africa.Drawing on historical analysis and contemporary policy debates, the book exposes flaws in international trade accounting that obscure the true scale of wealth extraction. It calls for sustained capital transfers and structural reforms to recover unjust enrichment and accelerate Africa’s development over the next four decades. The resulting resource provides practical guidance for policymakers, development practitioners, and global institutions—including the World Bank, the European Union, the African Union, and civil society—seeking to end chronic poverty and achieve broadly shared prosperity within 40 years.Richard F.&nbsp;America&nbsp;
 is Professor of Practice Emeritus in the&nbsp;McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. His research focuses on&nbsp;community reinvestment and investing in Africa. He is the author of numerous&nbsp;books and scholarly and professional articles. His seminal article, “What Do You
 
 People Want?” (Harvard Business Review, 1969), helped set the stage for the ongoing discussion of a form of reparations in the United States. His work in Africa has focused on improving management education, impact investing, and corporate philanthropy, strengthening African business schools, and expanding local and community-based economic development. He is the editor of 
 Accounting for Colonialism 
 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Relationships in trade and investment between Europe, the United States, and sub-Saharan Africa have long been asymmetrical, marked by systemic overcharges, underpayments, and exploitative practices. This book highlights a concept called kleptomation: a systematic, sustained theft of labor, resources, and wealth. Chapters examine the depth, breadth, and persistence of this economic injustice, exploring the inauthentic accumulation of wealth on the part of the West over the course of several hundred years.In the book, economist Richard F.&nbsp;America&nbsp;proposes a unified framework for reparations to address centuries of wrongful enrichment, illicit transactions, and hidden subsidies that have fueled Western prosperity. This framework is clearly defined and grounded in redistributive economic justice. Acknowledging previous attempts to repair the damage caused by kleptomation, this book presents a 40-year plan that international development executives, policymakers, and program managers can use to scale up capital transfers for development programs in Africa.Drawing on historical analysis and contemporary policy debates, the book exposes flaws in international trade accounting that obscure the true scale of wealth extraction. It calls for sustained capital transfers and structural reforms to recover unjust enrichment and accelerate Africa’s development over the next four decades. The resulting resource provides practical guidance for policymakers, development practitioners, and global institutions—including the World Bank, the European Union, the African Union, and civil society—seeking to end chronic poverty and achieve broadly shared prosperity within 40 years.

A Reparations Framework for International Development Policy and Finance

Restoring Africa’s Stolen Wealth

Ethnic and Indigenous Business Studies

Case Studies and Research Insights

Minority Entrepreneurship in Vietnam

Are digital technologies really a silver bullet for development in the Global South?


Digital technologies are supposed to solve the challenges of climate change, projected population growth, land conflicts and food insecurity, especially in rural areas. Yet NGOs, government institutions, and private companies are increasingly adopting a trial-and-error approach as they recognize the limitations of transferring Western science and technologies to the global South.
 
This book presents the ambivalent practices and implications of digital pilot projects which aim to 'develop' both farming communities and locally adapted innovations in East Africa. Inspired by laboratory ethnographies in Science and Technology Studies, it explores the practices of testing and developing digital technologies in rural Tanzania. The multi-sited ethnography, which takes in agricultural fairs, conferences, documents, online courses, tech hubs, project offices, villages and fields, centres on three case studies, namely DAST (a digital land-formalisation tool), STAS (an AI system for agricultural productivity) and iPlus (an e-extension tool). Rather than viewing these technologies simply as welcome tools to promote connectivity, empowerment and increased production - as commonly advanced in development policy - this book foregrounds the (un)intended consequences of the planning, set-up, maintenance and results of digital pilot projects. Against the backdrop of conflicting logics between testing technologies and developing Tanzanian agriculture through them, this book considers their (un)predictable impacts on new actors, the character of development and the trial communities in rural Tanzania.

Piloting Digital Technologies for Agriculture in Tanzania

Experimental Rural Development in the Global South

Neue Kleine Bibliothek

Der globale Kapitalismus befindet sich in der Dauerkrise. Globale Finanzkrise, Eurokrise, 'Flüchtlingskrise', Corona­krise, Krise im Ergebnis der neuen Kriege von der Ukraine bis Nahost: Kaum scheint ein Krisenherd unter Kontrolle, schlägt die Dauerkrise aus einer unerwarteten Richtung zurück. Durch die Krisen verändert sich jedoch, wie schon immer in der Geschichte, auch der Kapitalismus selbst: Neoliberale Weltordnung und unangefochtene US-Hegemonie waren einmal. In den Konflikten um Aufstieg und Abstieg von Großmächten wird der Kapitalismus postliberal: Ent­demokratisierung, Autoritarismus, (Wirtschafts-)Nationalismus, Militarismus, Imperialismus und (Wirtschafts-)Krieg sind die neue Normalität. Am Horizont zeichnen sich die Konturen eines neuen Kalten Kriegs mit Aussicht auf heiße Stellvertreterkriege und Eskalation ab. Aber können die großen Menschheitsfragen wie Frieden, Sicherheit, soziale Ungleichheit, sozialer Zusammenhalt, Demokratie, Nachhaltigkeit, Klimaschutz und Artensterben warten? Ingar Solty zeigt Ursachen und Hintergründe der Krise auf - und Alternativen für eine bessere Zukunft für alle.

Renationalisierung - Krise - Krieg

Der postliberale Kapitalismus

School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series

This volume explores a diverse array of cultural contexts to understand how vulnerabilities were involved in survival, domination, representation, relationality, agency, and humanity. Viewed as a prospect to be grasped rather than as a limit to be overcome, vulnerability has emerged as a key concept—a framework for thinking about a myriad of phenomena—in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and bioethics. In Changing Vulnerability, contributors focus on objects; sense and representation; relationships that enable, inhibit, and exploit agency; humanity and human faculty; nonsense; colonial domination; and engagement with the biosphere. These different facets of vulnerability variously co-occur, clash, highlight, obscure, enable, or disable contingent on their social and historical context.

Changing Vulnerability

This book examines how ideological factionalism, cultural conflicts, and competing visions of justice have shaped America’s perception of multiculturalism. The author believes that the flash points disrupting America stem from feeling that one’s group is being disrespected, whether by threatening it with violence, or, more subtly, by a cold, exclusionary pattern. Building on the author's concept of religious humanism, the book offers a systematic explanation of the roots of factionalism and offers new pathways for embracing multiculturalism. In the process, the author critiques mainstream models of utility theory and identity politics, proposing a revised framework that headlines the search for meaning as the dominant soulful force shaping behavior. &nbsp;In later chapters, the focus shifts towards making multiculturalism work. Proposed reforms are grounded in civic purpose, offering economists, policymakers, and the public practical tools necessary to promote constructive dialogue and institutional inclusion. Successful multicultural policies should aim at promoting national unity by honoring hyphenated-American cultural identities.&nbsp;Victor Glass 
 is Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries (CRRI) in the Department of Finance and Economics at Rutgers University Business School, Newark, New Jersey, USA. He holds a PhD in Economics and an MBA from Columbia University. He has published articles and books on net neutrality, business data services, customers as competitors, the next generation of wireless technology, smart grid technologies, and antitrust policies, among others.

This book examines how ideological factionalism, cultural conflicts, and competing visions of justice have shaped America’s perception of multiculturalism. The author believes that the flash points disrupting America stem from feeling that one’s group is being disrespected, whether by threatening it with violence, or, more subtly, by a cold, exclusionary pattern. Building on the author's concept of religious humanism, the book offers a systematic explanation of the roots of factionalism and offers new pathways for embracing multiculturalism. In the process, the author critiques mainstream models of utility theory and identity politics, proposing a revised framework that headlines the search for meaning as the dominant soulful force shaping behavior. &nbsp;In later chapters, the focus shifts towards making multiculturalism work. Proposed reforms are grounded in civic purpose, offering economists, policymakers, and the public practical tools necessary to promote constructive dialogue and institutional inclusion. Successful multicultural policies should aim at promoting national unity by honoring hyphenated-American cultural identities.&nbsp;

Economic Theory, Cultural Memory, and the Case for Institutional Reform

Reframing Multiculturalism in the United States

Legal Foundations of American Immigration Policy

Crafting an Immigrant Republic

Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems

This volume would prove to be a beneficial textbook option for economics faculties wishing to offer a PhD level course on quantitative developmental economics or applied economics. This reference volume offers a gentle introduction to various state-of-the-art mathematical and econometric modelling techniques with detailed applications. Each chapter, written by experienced scholars, describe a particular quantitative method for economic modelling and policy analysis. The chapters not only cover the theoretical foundations in a student-friendly language but also provide step-by-step guide to computational aspects. Real-world applications, given in each chapter, focus on the socio-economic conditions and well-being of people in the developing economies and middle-income countries.

Quantitative Methods for Applied Development Economics and Policy Analysis

Qatar's Role in China's Belt and Road Initiative

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