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A pessimistic view of Chinese agriculture development is based on a Malthusian trap, characterised by diminishing returns to agriculture and a declining land-labour ratio. This column presents stylised empirical facts of 19th and 20th century Chinese agriculture, focusing on the seasonality of labour demand and the resulting rise of sideline employment, to challenge the
By Devika Mittal* For Nelson Mandela, education is the “most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” His assertion echoes the sentiment towards education across societies. While education is an important institution of socialization that strives to re-produce a society, it also carries a crusader image that can usher a desired change. This pertains to its potential to influence mindsets and guide action. This image and potential draw different interest groups, among which an important one is the modern nation-state. Among the significant...
Conversations with Zane Mooneyhan About Austro-libertarianism and Much More Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 3:08 PM Subject: A second Question One more thing, sorry I bring all my questions to you, you always answer fastest and with the most sources haha. So I was thinking about federally enclosed land and whatnot, and how there is millions of square miles of “federally owned” land, or otherwise controlled by the US govt, where they are preventing people from going in and homesteading their own land. Is there a case to be made that the govt control of this land is significantly inflating ...
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. Hannah Holleman is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation and an associate professor of sociology at Amherst College. The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that are often surprisingly divorced from Karl M...
state Fri Jan 14 2000 at 6:40:34 An independantpoliticalentity with defined geographic boundaries and unified top most level of government. A collection of political subdivisions which are in fact a single state have pretentiouslycorrupted the term state and use it in the manner which Region or Province should be used. Sun Feb 25 2001 at 14:50:48 The primary international political organization is the sovereign state (since the Peace of Westphalia - 1648). The 20 th Century was a period of radical expansion of independant states, but as different as each of these entities may be, they share...