Article
Area Studies
Xinwen Zhang
Summary: This article explores important and interconnected issues related to China's current social formation and its relationship with socialism. By examining key principles of socialism, the article concludes that China does not meet the criteria for being a socialist country. It further evaluates the possibility of China returning to socialism based on the ruling party's motivations and the power dynamics of various social forces, as well as analyzes the role of the state in controlling economic resources and its impact on society and the economy.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA
(2023)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Atanu Sarkar
Summary: Mass production and insatiable consumption lead to global waste, pollution, loss of biodiversity, and climate change. Existing global environmental governance fails to address consumption patterns, especially in rich countries. An inclusive developmental policy integrating human behavior intervention, closed-loop material flow systems, and ecological economics principles is needed.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ilias Alami
Summary: Currently, global capitalism is going through a turbulent and diverse (geo)political reordering, involving multiple changes in state intervention and a significant reshaping of the state's role in the global economy. The concept of state capitalism can help us understand these transformations conceptually, but it should not be seen as a national or regional form of capitalism or a new accumulation regime. Instead, it should be viewed as a flexible approach to examine the historic trajectory of state intervention. In this essay, I propose ten theses on the new state capitalism, including its roots in capital accumulation dynamics, its connection to broader material conflicts, and its potential future developments.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
(2023)
Article
Economics
Eun-Hee Kim, Yeonbae Kim
Summary: This study expands the framework of varieties of capitalism by considering the role of the state in the market, and empirically proves the positive impact of state involvement on economic growth, especially when combined with labor relations.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Nadir Kinossian, Kevin Morgan
Summary: The paper examines the authoritarian state capitalism variant, using Russia as an example, and highlights the central role of the state in the economy. It explores two state-sponsored megaprojects and their impact on the authoritarian state capitalism in Russia.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
(2023)
Article
Economics
Eun-Hee Kim, Yeonbae Kim
Summary: Hall and Soskice's (2001) Varieties of Capitalism provides a background for explaining institutional benefits for specific types of innovation. Extensive research has been conducted to verify their claims, but controversy remains because the criteria of radical innovation are ambiguous. In this study, the numerous indicators for radical innovation presented in previous research are comprehensively verified. In addition, the expanded framework, including the concept of state capitalism, is used to reflect real-world economic circumstances in which state involvement in the market drives economic growth and innovation. By expressing the components that serve as the basis for clusters of market economy types as continuous variables, we identified which factors affect innovation and to what extent they do so.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Arkadiusz J. Derkacz, Agnieszka Dudziak, Monika Stoma
Summary: The research aims to develop a general concept of business process measures incorporating five key principles and utilizing methods of process management and Petri net rules. It highlights the importance of adapting and using a wide range of institutional determinants in achieving business process goals within a circular economy context.
Review
Economics
Emilio Carnevali, Andre Pedersen Ystehede
Summary: The paper examines the recent revival of interest in the concept of socialism from an economic perspective. It surveys the most significant contemporary proposals for a new model of socialism across five major thematic areas and constructs a common framework to assess these new blueprints.
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Ilias Alami, Adam D. Dixon
Summary: This article contributes to the development of state capitalism by critically examining the morphology of contemporary capitalism and the changing role of the state. Through a rigorous definition, the category of state capitalism is used to problematize the expanding role of the state in promoting, supervising, and owning capital globally. The article proposes a new research agenda focused on spatializing the study of state capitalism and revitalizing systemic explanations of this phenomenon. It argues that contemporary state capitalism is a global process of restructuring the capitalist state, driven by automation and labor-saving technologies.
ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Business
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, Sasa Vejzagic
Summary: This article introduces a special issue on the business histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia, highlighting the growing literature on the history of business organization in the Global East during the Cold War. It argues that mainstream business history struggles to incorporate the findings of this emerging body of work, and proposes a more nuanced view that explores a greater variety of experiences beyond the traditional Soviet-style firm. The seven contributions in this special issue showcase new directions in the field and demonstrate the innovative perspectives gained by taking business history 'eastwards'.
Article
Ecology
Benjamin H. Lowe, Andrea Genovese
Summary: The transition to a circular economy is not simply a technical or practical process, but involves contrasting visions of sustainable development that are often not fully acknowledged. Research should recognize the importance of value and how value theory can either enable or contradict the visions of sustainable development articulated.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Business
Milan Babic, Adam D. D. Dixon, Jan Fichtner
Summary: Previous studies have focused on the rise of states as global owners and investors, but a good understanding of the role of state investment in a globalized economy, particularly in host states, is still lacking. Comparative capitalisms research has analyzed foreign state investment as a potential source of patient capital for coordinated and mixed-market economies, but cannot explain the recent surge of protectionist sentiments. Therefore, a new framework centered on the globalized nature of foreign state investment is needed to study this phenomenon.
COMPETITION & CHANGE
(2023)
Editorial Material
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
C. Michael Hall, Girish Prayag, Alexander Safonov, Tim Coles, Stefan Gossling, Sara Naderi Koupaei
Summary: This article discusses the impacts of Airbnb and the sharing economy on the tourism and hospitality industries, highlighting issues such as competition, spatial impacts, and community opposition. It also emphasizes the effects of the sharing economy on international networks, destinations, and individuals.
CURRENT ISSUES IN TOURISM
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Richard Baernthaler, Andreas Novy, Leonhard Plank
Summary: This paper synthesizes research on the foundational economy and its potential contribution to a social-ecological transformation, highlighting both the richness of concepts and policies it offers and its limitations in understanding the systematic non-sustainability of capitalism. By integrating feminist and ecological economics, the paper proposes a novel schema of economic zones to better conceptualize wellbeing within planetary boundaries and aims to empower new social and ecological struggles for improving living conditions and ultimately challenging capitalism.
Article
Economics
Peter Mladina
Summary: Socialism is gaining popularity again, but it comes with significant economic costs and leads to poverty, as shown by an empirical evaluation on major socialist economies.
APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS
(2021)