Paul Bowles
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 125270 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paul Bowles |
| PRENOMES | Paul |
| SOBRENOME | Bowles |
| ASSINATURA | BOWLES P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Northern British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7714-772X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Transforming global critical minerals governance
As states scramble, albeit at different speeds and with different degrees of conviction, to move to greener energy sources, the demand for critical minerals will inevitably increase over the coming decades. How critical minerals are governed is a crucial question at multiple levels. Here, we focus on the global level. We first consider the lessons from a previous global transformative initiative, namely the New International Economic Order (NIEO)…
Oil Pipeline Resistance in Canada and the US
The construction of new oil pipelines and the expansion of existing ones have been met with sustained resistance across North America. Pipeline expansion has been justified for economic reasons, but has emerged as a “chokepoint” for the industry as popular resistance has sought to protect land and water resources. This resistance has both national and cross-border continental dimensions, depending on the specificities of the pipeline under analys…
Social Licence Comes to Greenland’s Mining Sector
The social licence to operate is a concept that has been applied to the mining sector internationally for the past two decades. In 2017, it was raised by a number of actors as a way to reduce controversy over mining projects in Greenland. In this paper, we analyse why the concept of social licence appeared, and the legitimacy problems that it was intended to resolve despite numerous changes to Greenland’s mining approval processes. We argue that …
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies
Fractured alliance
The northwest region of British Columbia, Canada has been at the center of multiple fossil fuel projects over the past decade as corporations have sought access to the coastline in order to export their products. Analyzing the dynamics of how and why groups and communities responded to two specific fossil fuel projects, we address the question: why did the "unlikely alliance" formed at the local level in northwest B.C. to resist the Enbridge oil …
Critical development studies and the study of globalization(s)
Critical Development Studies has long engaged with the study of globalization. However, the ways in which it does so and how these interact and fuse with, or diverge from, others working in the broad field of globalization studies remain avenues to explore. In this Introductory essay, we describe how critical development studies emerged and highlight some of its contributions before presenting an overview of the six papers which comprise this Spe…
The developmental state and the study of globalizations
The developmental state is an important concept within critical development studies. This article examines two questions. The first is how the developmental state has been impacted by globalization processes. This is traced for five globalization processes: the globalization of finance, of production, and of trade, global climate change and global class structures. The second issue examined is how, through the prism of the developmental state, cr…
Southeast Asian Regionalism and Global Capitalism Revisited
"Asean, Afta, and the "New Regionalism
Contesting natural resource development in Canada
Harold Innis (1930) famously described Canada as a country comprised of ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’. The staples approach that he advanced and which his followers subsequently further developed has become a reference point for continuing debate over the economic importance and consequences of natural resource development in Canada, a debate reignited by the long commodities boom of 2000–14. In this article we examine another, overlooked…
Renminbi appreciation and Global Value Chains in China
China has experienced a rapid integration into Global Value Chains and a decade long appreciation of its exchange rate. However, these trends have been analysed largely in isolation from each other. In this paper, we explore the linkages between the two based on interviews with a sample of firms in Jiangsu Province. We show (1) how the distribution of the costs and benefits of exchange rate appreciation depends on the power hierarchies between fi…
China’s Foreign Aid and Investment Diplomacy, Volume I
International Political Economy meets the unexpected
The town that said “No” to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline
Does U.S. Pressure Lead to Changes in China’s Exchange Rate
The role of external political pressure in the appreciation of the Chinese renminbi against the U.S. dollar since 2005 has been the subject of debate. While Chinese authorities maintain that only domestic considerations have played a role, whether the appreciation has also been the result of the exercise of international monetary power by the United States has been examined using three different approaches. The results have been contradictory wit…
Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region
Northern British Columbia has always played an important role in Canada’s economy, but for many Canadians it also existed as an almost forgotten place: a vast territory where only a few roads, some railroad tracks, and a ferry system connected small cities, towns, and villages to the outside world. Now, as the global appetite for oil, gas, hydroelectricity, wood, and minerals intensifies, this resource-rich and geographically important region is …
Capitalism
Capitalism stands unrivalled as the most enduring economic system of our times. Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc the world has become a new stage for capital, and yet despite this dominance capitalism is still not widely understood. It remains a subject of enduring interest that is discovered and rediscovered over time by each successive generation of students. Exploring the life of this world-shaping system and the writings of leading think…
Extractive Imperialism in the Americas
Recent changes in the global economy, which include a growing demand for energy and natural resources such as industrial minerals and agro-food products, have brought about a massive devastating pillage of resources in the developing world by multinational corporations as well as states with energy and food security concerns—and concerns about a system (global capitalism) in the throes of a global crisis. These developments have also brought abou…
Extractivist resistance
Globalizing’ Northern British Columbia
Resource-dependent regions have long been integrated into global markets. But while integration with global markets has been a long process, it is one which has undergone continual change and been subject to numerous phases. This is evident in the case of northern British Columbia, a resource-dependent region known for its exports of lumber, fish, metals, coal, oil, and gas. Currently, the region is experiencing a new phase of globalization as th…
Economics and development studies by Michael Tribe, Frederick Nixson, and Andy Sumner
Economics and development studies by Michael Tribe, Frederick Nixson, and Andy Sumner , Routledge , New York , 2010 , xxi + 288 pp. , paper $46.00 ( ISBN 9780415450386 ) This book has an ambitious purpose: to make economics accessible, and of interest, to second and third year students in international development studies programs. The book starts from the premise that, as a multidisciplinary area of inquiry, development studies must include a si…
Renminbi Internationalization
The renminbi is currently undergoing a process of internationalization which has raised fundamental questions about the evolution of the international monetary system and the dominance of the US dollar. In this article, we assess how far the renminbi has travelled down the internationalization road and analyse the possibilities for it challenging the role of the US dollar in the future. We utilize Cohen's () taxonomy to document the current dimen…
Rebalancing China's growth
China's leadership has spoken for much of the past decade about the need to ‘rebalance’ the economy and put it onto a different growth path, with domestic consumption as a leading driver of growth. This paper analyses two questions in this regard. The first is how to best to characterise China's existing growth path. China is typically considered to be an export-led economy par excellence. However, the results of the growth accounting approach ar…
China's Financial Transition at a Crossroads . Charles W. Calomiris
The rocky road ahead
The future of the dollar depends partly on China and the US being able to effectively manage the tensions arising from the large bilateral trade imbalance and the build-up of foreign exchange reserves by China. We argue that these tensions are unlikely to change over the medium term. While tensions can be managed, the possibilities for miscalculations and policy errors are significant given the complex, and sometimes inconsistent, interests of bo…
Asia's post-crisis regionalism
The Asian financial crisis has significantly changed the way in which regionalism in East Asia is taking place. Prior to the crisis, regionalism in the area was noted for its relative lack of formal institutions; many analyses stressed the role of private businesses in fostering a 'regional economy'. Post-crisis regionalism is being led by the state and encompasses both monetary and trade dimensions. The reasons for this change are analysed and t…
Extractivist resistance
The rocky road ahead
The future of the dollar depends partly on China and the US being able to effectively manage the tensions arising from the large bilateral trade imbalance and the build-up of foreign exchange reserves by China. We argue that these tensions are unlikely to change over the medium term. While tensions can be managed, the possibilities for miscalculations and policy errors are significant given the complex, and sometimes inconsistent, interests of bo…
Gender Segmentation at Work in China's Privatized Rural Industry
Understanding trade bloc formation
The formation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1991 marks a significant change in attitudes towards preferential trading arrangements in the region. In this article, we examine why such a change in policy came about In so doing, we conclude that mainstream economic approaches do not provide satisfactory explanations for the formation of AFTA. In large measure this is due, we argue, to an overly simplistic explanation of, or disregard for, s…
Flowers and criticism’
Since 2003 China has faced increasing pressure, especially from the US and Japan, to revalue the renminbi. In July 2005 China responded by announcing a small revaluation and a switch from a dollar peg to a tightly managed float against a currency basket. The mainstream economic debate, which we briefly review, has focused on whether, and to what extent, the renminbi is undervalued. From a political economy perspective, however, the more interesti…
Regionalism and Development after(?) the Global Financial Crises
"Asean, Afta and the "New Regionalism
The town that said “No” to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline
Globalization and Neoliberalism
The term “neoliberal globalization” has become a common one in both academic discourse and in the NGOs and social movements that are typically referred to as the “anti-globalization” movement. However, the concept of neoliberal globalization—and the relationship between Neoliberalism and globalization—is not straightforward. The reason for this that the term “globalization” has been interpreted in a variety of ways, each with its own implications…
International Political Economy meets the unexpected
From Casual Work to Economic Security
Introduction to the Special Issue on Pathways from Casual Work to Economic Security
Recipient Needs and Donor Interests in the Allocation of EEC Aid to Developing Countries
This paper examines the distribution of aid from the European Economic Community (EEC) to developing countries. The first part presents an overview of the magnitude and composition of EEC aid. Then a model of aid allocation is proposed using data from the 1975–81 period. The empirical results indicate that donor interests are more important in the aid allocation process than recipient countries' need for aid. While this result is common in studie…
John Millar, the Four-Stages Theory, and Women's Position in Society
Research Article| November 01 1984 John Millar, the Four-Stages Theory, and Women's Position in Society Paul Bowles Paul Bowles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (4): 619–638. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-4-619 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Bowles; John Millar, the Four-Stages Theory, and Women's Position …
Critical development studies and the study of globalization(s)
Critical Development Studies has long engaged with the study of globalization. However, the ways in which it does so and how these interact and fuse with, or diverge from, others working in the broad field of globalization studies remain avenues to explore. In this Introductory essay, we describe how critical development studies emerged and highlight some of its contributions before presenting an overview of the six papers which comprise this Spe…
Contesting natural resource development in Canada
Harold Innis (1930) famously described Canada as a country comprised of ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water’. The staples approach that he advanced and which his followers subsequently further developed has become a reference point for continuing debate over the economic importance and consequences of natural resource development in Canada, a debate reignited by the long commodities boom of 2000–14. In this article we examine another, overlooked…
Does U.S. Pressure Lead to Changes in China’s Exchange Rate
The role of external political pressure in the appreciation of the Chinese renminbi against the U.S. dollar since 2005 has been the subject of debate. While Chinese authorities maintain that only domestic considerations have played a role, whether the appreciation has also been the result of the exercise of international monetary power by the United States has been examined using three different approaches. The results have been contradictory wit…
The Political Economy of China's Financial Reforms
Market socialism, financial liberalization and late development the pre-reform system - the financial institutions of centrally-planned socialism the process of financial reform policy outcomes - the macroeconomic and microeconomic impact of financial reform toward a socialist capital market? conclusion - future trajectories
Renminbi Internationalization
The renminbi is currently undergoing a process of internationalization which has raised fundamental questions about the evolution of the international monetary system and the dominance of the US dollar. In this article, we assess how far the renminbi has travelled down the internationalization road and analyse the possibilities for it challenging the role of the US dollar in the future. We utilize Cohen's () taxonomy to document the current dimen…
Assessing the Impact of Proposed Bank Mergers on Rural Communities
Foreign aid and domestic savings in less developed countries
Adam Smith and the 'Natural Progress of Opulence
In this paper we analyse Adam Smith's claim that the 'natural progress of opulence' described the way in which economies would, if left to themselves, develop. It is argued here that the reasons Smith gave for this being 'entirely inverted' in Europe do not, in fact, demonstrate that the European path was historically unnatural, even on Smith's own criterion. The cause of this internal inconsistency is located in Smith's methodological approach w…
The developmental state and the study of globalizations
The developmental state is an important concept within critical development studies. This article examines two questions. The first is how the developmental state has been impacted by globalization processes. This is traced for five globalization processes: the globalization of finance, of production, and of trade, global climate change and global class structures. The second issue examined is how, through the prism of the developmental state, cr…
John Millar, the legislator and the mode of subsistence
Music of Morocco
John Millar, the Four-Stages Theory, and Women's Position in Society
Research Article| November 01 1984 John Millar, the Four-Stages Theory, and Women's Position in Society Paul Bowles Paul Bowles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (4): 619–638. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-16-4-619 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Paul Bowles; John Millar, the Four-Stages Theory, and Women's Position …
Points in Time
TEHEE SOUND of the sea on the wind blowing through the streets of Essaouira today is the same as it was two hundred years ago, when Andrew Layton had a small exporting business there, together with two Frenchmen, Messieurs Secard and Barre. The three men often set out on their horses into the countryside roundabout, Layton's greyhounds accompanying them. There were very few Europeans in the town, so that these excursions had become their favorite…
The Origin of Property and the Development of Scottish Historical Science
John Millar, the legislator and the mode of subsistence
Adam Smith and the 'Natural Progress of Opulence
In this paper we analyse Adam Smith's claim that the 'natural progress of opulence' described the way in which economies would, if left to themselves, develop. It is argued here that the reasons Smith gave for this being 'entirely inverted' in Europe do not, in fact, demonstrate that the European path was historically unnatural, even on Smith's own criterion. The cause of this internal inconsistency is located in Smith's methodological approach w…
Foreign aid and domestic savings in less developed countries
Technical change and intra‐household welfare
In this article the effect of an agricultural technical change on intra‐household welfare is discussed. Existing theories of the household suggest that the distribution of resources within the household is a function of household members’ employment. The differences in male and female employment levels under rainfed and irrigated rice production are investigated in a case study of two villages in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is concluded that th…
Peripheral Capitalist Development Revisited
The effect of imperialism on the economic development of Third World countries has long been a subject of interest to Marxist scholars. The international expansion of capitalist states, which led to the creation of a world market and the integration of pre-capitalist countries into this market, heralded a new phase of capitalism the implications of which are still being debated
Recipient Needs and Donor Interests in the Allocation of EEC Aid to Developing Countries
This paper examines the distribution of aid from the European Economic Community (EEC) to developing countries. The first part presents an overview of the magnitude and composition of EEC aid. Then a model of aid allocation is proposed using data from the 1975–81 period. The empirical results indicate that donor interests are more important in the aid allocation process than recipient countries' need for aid. While this result is common in studie…
Nucleus Estates in Sulawesi
During the past two decades the Government of Indonesia and international agencies such as the World Bank have promoted the use of the nucleus estate model of agricultural development. This model aims to foster the economic interaction between a “modern” firm and smallholders (and/or the landless) in a mutually advantageous way. In this paper, we examine whether such arrangements are, in fact, likely to be beneficial to smallholders in Sulawesi
Millar and Engels on the history of women and the family
(1990). Millar and Engels on the history of women and the family. History of European Ideas: Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 595-610
China's Reforms
After years of relative stability, socialist societies are undergoing rapid change (and disintegration). Within the Soviet Union and its allies, events move with breath-taking speed, and the unthinkable only a year ago is today the commonplace. In China, too, the last ten years have witnessed rapid changes. Not only has the pace and extent of change become quite unpredictable to the casual observer and expert alike, but it is mixed with such dram…
The dilemmas of market socialism
This two‐part article analyses the attempts to reform the socialist financial system in China by diversifying financial assets and introducing capital markets. The approach used is that of political economy, in the sense of elucidating the interplay between political and economic interests, actors and issues in the reform process. Part I discusses the issue of bonds by governments and enterprises. Although the reform era has seen gradual progress…
The dilemmas of market socialism
This two‐part article analyses the attempts to reform the socialist financial system in China by diversifying financial assets and introducing capital markets. The approach used is that of political economy, in the sense of elucidating the interplay between political and economic interests, actors and issues in the reform process. Part I discusses the issue of bonds by governments and enterprises. Although the reform era has seen gradual progress…
Money in the People's Republic of China
Central bank independence
The article uses a political economy approach to examine critically the conventional arguments for central bank independence and to make the terms of debate more precise. It assesses the advisability and feasibility of greater autonomy in relation to the constellations of political forces in specific societies and concludes by suggesting how, in the context of developing societies, an accommodation of interests might be reached to support a more …
The political economy of financial reform in China
Financial reforms have been a central component of China's programme of market‐oriented economic reform which began in 1979. Interaction between politics and economics in the evolution of the reforms has been complex. Analysis should have two aims in mind. First, it is important to understand how the overall policy paradigm of financial reform changed over time, passing from a more moderate phase from 1979 to 1984 to a phase far more radical than…
Current Successes and Future Challenges in China’s Economic Reforms
China’s programme of economic reform has met with remarkable success. The average annual growth rate since 1979 has been 8.8 per cent, placing China in a select group of developing countries which have achieved sustained industrial growth for over a decade. Indeed, China doubled output per person in
The Political Economy of China's Financial Reforms
Market socialism, financial liberalization and late development the pre-reform system - the financial institutions of centrally-planned socialism the process of financial reform policy outcomes - the macroeconomic and microeconomic impact of financial reform toward a socialist capital market? conclusion - future trajectories
Understanding trade bloc formation
The formation of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1991 marks a significant change in attitudes towards preferential trading arrangements in the region. In this article, we examine why such a change in policy came about In so doing, we conclude that mainstream economic approaches do not provide satisfactory explanations for the formation of AFTA. In large measure this is due, we argue, to an overly simplistic explanation of, or disregard for, s…
From Centrally Planned to Market Economies
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"Asean, Afta and the "New Regionalism
From Centrally Planned to Market Economies
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