Transforming Economics: Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project
Author: Paul Lewis
Economics has become polarized. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use of mathematical modeling. On the other hand, there are economists who believe passionately that in order for economics to be useful it needs to take account of its history, its impact on society and its real world applications.
The contributors to this book fix their scholarly glare on the heterodox section of economics, and in particular upon critical realist approaches to the subject. Experts from a variety of perspectives have come together in these pages to examine the impact and usefulness of critical realism in relation to the different spheres within economics.
Notable for its contributions from such distinguished figures as Clive Granger, Edward J. Nell and Peter J. Boettke - this book deserves to find a ready audience across the economics spectrum.
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Africa at the Crossroads: Between Regionalism and Globalization
Author: John Mukum Mbaku
Mbaku, Saxena, and their contributors examine the problems faced by Africa as it decides what to do to improve its ability to contribute to and benefit from the new globalization. Today, the continent stands at a crossroads; it must choose between joining the new global society and pursuing a process of internal self-reliance. The dilemma the continent faces is how to participate in and benefit from the new global economy as well as retain and also benefit from its emerging regional economic and political schemes.
Table of Contents:
| Tables | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Acronyms | ||
| 1 | Africa at the crossroads | 1 |
| 2 | Africa at the crossroads of globalization | 21 |
| 3 | Globalization and popular disenchantment in Africa | 49 |
| 4 | A Tale of three images : globalization, marginalization, and the sovereignty of the African nation-state | 93 |
| 5 | Regionalism and regional cooperation in Africa : new century challenges and prospects | 121 |
| 6 | The new East African community : a defense and security organ as the missing link | 147 |
| 7 | The African union : Africa's giant step toward continental unity | 163 |
| 8 | Fighting poverty and deprivation in Africa : the continuing struggle | 191 |
| 9 | Internet connectivity and development in Africa : look before you "leapfrog" | 211 |
| 10 | Decentralization and privatization of infrastructure | 233 |
| 11 | Beyond rhetoric : peacekeeping in Africa in the new millennium | 267 |
| 12 | Cultural diversity, societal conflict, and sustainable peace in Africa : consociational democracy revisited | 287 |
| 13 | State repair and democratic development in Africa | 315 |
| 14 | Ethnicity, agonism of difference, and national imagining in postcolonial Africa | 337 |
| 15 | The struggle for stability in Nigeria's contemporary politics (1990-1999) and the lessons for the fourth republic | 371 |
| 16 | Imperialism and militarism in Africa : the political economy of French arms sales and military interventions, 1960-1980 | 387 |
| Selected biliography | 429 | |
| Index | 443 | |
| About the editors and contributors | 461 |
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