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Missing in the conversations about China’s future is the place of economic liberalism in modern Chinese thought before 1978, explains AIER's Dr. Samuel Gregg in his Law & Liberty review of “Markets with Chinese Characteristics.” Read here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eRVRG9Se

Publication yesterday of the book "The Development of European Competition Policy Social Democracy and Regulation" co-edited by Brian Shaev et Sigfrido Ramirez-Perez. This book considers the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. It challenges the dominant belief that the EU’s economic system and competition policy were mainly influenced by neoliberal economic thinking, instead showing that Keynesian and social-democratic positions played a major role in the emergence of this system. With contributions from Harm G. Schröter, Birgit Karlsson, Severine Cramm, Brian Shaev, Karin van Leeuwen, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez, Susanna Fellman, Laurent Warlouzet, wolf sauter, John Lapidus, Vera Ŝćepanović and myself. https://lnkd.in/eTRPFXtD #EU #competition #law #history #socialdemocracy

🚨 Just published! A new article by Will Davies, Sahil Dutta and I: ' Stay Home: Mapping the new domestic regime' in Economy & Society. Available open access: https://lnkd.in/eg-j_jZC Abstract This paper argues that a new ‘domestic regime’ has taken hold in Anglo-American economies since 2008. The combination of austere fiscal policy and loose monetary policy produced sustained house-price inflation in an otherwise stagnant economy. This combined with broadband-enabled digital platforms, a highly flexible labour market, and a routinely undervalued social reproductive sector to transform how capitalism operates in these economies. Taking the United Kingdom as a central case, our goal in this paper is to articulate what constitutes a ‘domestic regime’, and to locate this concept within wider sociological and political-economic debates. To adequately grasp the contemporary regime, we suggest that it needs to be considered in all its multifaceted, interlocking dimensions: the financial, the infrastructural, the reproductive and the productive.

Buller School of Business - Providence UC and Márcio Coelho. Chapter 2: Country Differences in Political Economy, I learnt that In international business, countries differ in how they run their governments, manage their economies, and enforce laws. Some countries have democratic systems with free markets and strong legal protections, making it easier for businesses and business owners to operate. Others have stricter government control, with more regulations and less economic freedom. These differences in governance have made businesses/ business owners to adapt to how they work depending on the country’s political and economic setup.

"The theory by Lee (2016) states that increased competition for control of Congress has fueled a more confrontational partisanship style. Through an analysis of the 2018-2019 federal government shutdown and current grandstanding between the House and White House on Ukraine and Israeli aid, it's shown how messaging and political maneuvers, which have short-term benefits, are more beneficial in a system where each party has a legitimate shot at majority status in the next election." (Beauchamp 2024, 48) "In the end, the Kantian Peace has been shown to be a valid argument to describe how we can get to a place of perpetual or at least long lasting peace through the various basis points. From commercial interdependence to commonality in governance regimes, there is a sense that when self-interests align, the stomach and probability for open conflict dramatically reduces." (Beauchamp 2024, 97) AMERICAN LAW AND THOUGHT (2024) by Joshua N. Beauchamp, MA is available for purchase on Amazon and Google Books! This riveting book is a collection of essays covering various topics from parties and interest groups, law and politics, international relations theory, American political thought, and much more! Review: I recommend this book for anyone interested in politics, government, law, history, and social sciences. I just love how the book is so comprehensive in its examination of the western expansion and impacts on the native environments. Also, the analysis of social media's impact on American democracy is very interesting and makes you really think. - Alex (Customer) To purchase, please visit: https://lnkd.in/giaHckNK

Very happy to report that my article in Early American Studies, the journal of McNeil Center for Early American Studies, is now published and accessible online! Want to know more about the Dutch political economy during the American Revolution? Click below! https://lnkd.in/gg9iT2Zj

This Q&A with THE HIDDEN GLOBE author Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and Joshua Keating on Vox's Future Perfect is fascinating. Read it to learn more about how the wealthy are bending the rules in their favor by creating extraterritorial zones across the world. 🌐 https://lnkd.in/gEyHjJiA

Better late than never: Before I overwhelm my fellows with quality content and reports from Brussels, I’d like to do some overdue self-promotion for this year's publication: **Available where good books are sold: Radunz/Riedel 2024** Together with Rafał Riedel, I analyze party offerings and popular demand for differentiated European integration in the UK, Germany, Poland, and Switzerland. We find that the distributive consequences of economic and political integration in the 21st century hold significant restructuring potential for the still primary arena of political decision-making: national elections and party systems. We illustrate this with our country sample, where the idea of further or deeper European integration is more likely to evoke fears of cultural subversion through migration on the new political right, rather than concerns about unfettered capitalism on the political left. This is true even for the non-member states in our sample, situated at the inner and outer periphery of European integration. You can now read about how the "new" cultural conflict line - between traditional-authoritarian-nationalist and green-alternative-liberal values - impacts national political decision-making processes and, ultimately, the system of (differentiated) European integration in our second joint publication.

I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect with the cover of this week's The Economist - it says "The New Economic Order" but the content is focused on the erosion of the old / current order. The intent is to raise alarm about real risks to many of the conditions which contributed to significant expansions in freedom, liberty, and opportunity over the past 75 years, but it would be nice if they had dedicated more space to ideas about what new iterations of liberal capitalism could look like. How will institutions be designed differently in ways that invigorate the essential principles while better speaking to the realities of today and the future? Challenges often inspire the best in humanity--in June 1941, Winston Churchill gave a speech where he talked about this, noting: "When great causes are on the move in the world...we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." But those spirits, and that duty, are rarely just to defend exactly that which existed previously; people always want to build and create something new. Maybe future editions will focus more on this element. https://lnkd.in/etQbVvDC

Valery Perry wrote the piece I should have written, but my Applebaum book is being shared and traveled across the ocean, so I have still not reached her conclusions. I found it to be a fascinating and very brave read and felt I need to share a few things with those who accused me for being too naive when expecting our liberal world to be actually what it claims to be. Over and over again. Using realpolitik as an excuse. This is well argued both in Appelbaum's book and in Valery's article. We are not naive to expect to live in the world we were building for 80 years, but we need to clean up at home and make a clear distinction between leaders with integrity and moral 🧭 and kleptocrats and oligarchs who are pulling the rug from under our feet and stealing our future from us and our children. Read both the article and the book and don't give up on our responsibility to be better globally and hunt them down locally. Their criminal enterprises have destroyed our youth, our safety and wellbeing. We need to make sure these transnational mobsters pay the price for making us doubt the human rights based approach and the value system stemming from it and its capacity. We can do better if we expose, confront and prosecute these selfish, greedy and malign cells in our imperfect, but functioning organism. As someone from former Yugoslavia, I very much relate to this part of Valery's article: "Western diplomats engaging in the Western Balkans today – and often hailing or even facilitating kleptocratic business dealmaking – would do well to read her book. They could then recognise the signs that we’ve seen in the region for years, and the potential allies among citizens in the region who know the playbook all too well – and wonder why the West still has not learned." https://lnkd.in/epj6KJ7Y