Development Studies or Mergers and Acquisitions

Development Studies: A Reader

Author: Stuart Corbridg

Contains approximately 30 representative and exciting articles by leading academics in the field on the nature of contemporary developmental issues. Using the 'development debate' as its organizing theme, this accessible work discusses such topics as theories and models of development, survival strategies and the weapons of the weak and new directions including democratization, environmental sustainability and citizenship.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Preface and Prospectus
	World Map
Sect. 1	Thinking about Development
	Editor's Introduction	1
1	Non-Economic Barriers to Economic Development	17
2	The Development of Underdevelopment	27
3	Marxism and Development of Sociology: Interpreting the Impasse	37
4	The Misconceptions of "Development Economics"	56
5	Development Planning	64
Sect. 2	Agrarian Change and Rural Development
	Editor's Introduction	78
6	Food and Freedom	90
7	"Unimodal" and "Bimodal" Strategies of Agrarian Change	109
8	Does the "Depressor" Still Work? Agrarian Structure and Development in India	121
9	Governments and Agricultural Markets in Africa	147
10	Rural Poverty Unobserved: The Six Biases	164
Sect. 3	How Poor People Survive: The Weapons of the Weak
	Editor's Introduction	174
11	The Consequences of Reproductive Failure	185
12	The Woodfuel Problem	200
13	The Creation of a Labour Surplus in Surat District, Gujarat, India	216
14	Manufacturing Dissent: Work, Gender and the Politics of Meaning in a Peasant Society	224
15	Radical Opposition Parties and Squatters Movements in Pinochet's Chile	239
Sect. 4	Urbanization and Industrialization
	Editor's Introduction	256
16	Urban Bias and the Myths of Urbanisation	269
17	Latin America's Urban Poor: Shanty Dwellers or Renters of Rooms?	279
18	Foreword to 'The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World' by Hernando de Soto	288
19	Transnational Corporations: Dominance and Dependency in the World Economy	296
20	Lessons from East Asia	309
Sect. 5	The Global Political Economy
	Editor's Introduction	328
21	Of Coconuts and Kings: The Political Economy of an Export Crop	339
22	Foreign Aid: Central Component of World Development?	359
23	Structural Adjustment: A Survey of the Issues and Options	368
Sect. 6	New Directions in Development Studies
	Editor's Introduction	383
24	Infrastructure for Development	393
25	Environment, Development and Politics: Capital Accumulation and the Livestock Sector in Eastern Amazonia	400
26	Governance, Democracy and Development in the Third World	427
27	Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence	438
	Index	448

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Author: Thomas Lee Hazen

This law school casebook focuses on the corporate and securities laws relating to corporate combinations. Coverage also extends to tax, antitrust, and financial issues. Cases and other materials are followed by informative notes and questions. It is organized to make it easy for you to omit or rearrange material to adapt the book to your particular teaching approach. Designed for use in either as a stand-alone text or as the basic source material for projects, problems, or writing assignments to supplement the traditional case method. The book is suitable for use for either a two or three credit hour course.