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Bifurcating means: reconstituting a political economy that reconnects local knowledge and practices with macroeconomic circulation and rethinks territoriality at its different scales of locality; developing an economy of contribution on the basis of a contributory income no longer tied to employment and once again valuing work as a knowledge activity; overhauling law, and government and corporate accounting, via economic and social experiments, including in laboratory territories, and in relation to cooperative, local market economies formed into networks and linked to international trade; revaluing research from a long-term perspective, independent of the short-term interests of political and economic powers; reorienting digital technology in the service of territories and territorial cooperation.The collective work that produced this book is based on the claim that today’s destructive development model is reaching its ultimate limits, and that its toxicity, which is increasingly massive, manifest and multidimensional (medical, environmental, mental, epistemological, economic – accumulating pockets of insolvency, which become veritable oceans), is generated above all by the fact that the current industrial economy is based in every sector on an obsolete physical model – a mechanism that ignores the constraints of locality in biology and the entropic tendency in reticulated computational information. In these gravely perilous times, we must bifurcate: there is no alternative.

Political economy --- bifurcating; political economy; economy

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Dieses Buch hilft dabei, die Wichtigkeit der Thermodynamik für Wirtschaft, Umwelt und Gesellschaft zu verstehen. Es plädiert für die Integration der ersten beiden Hauptsätze der Thermodynamik in die Lehrbuchökonomie. Dabei führen systemische Gemeinsamkeiten in der Thermodynamik und in der Theorie des Wirtschaftswachstums zur Verwendung ähnlicher mathematischer Methoden, die es erlauben, industrielle Volkswirtschaften realitätsnah zu beschreiben. Davon ausgehend schlagen die Autoren Instrumente zur Lösung der Sozial- und Umweltprobleme vor. Das Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich für interdisziplinäre Forschung zu den Entwicklungsproblemen von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft interessieren und die verstehen wollen, was deren Umbrüche treibt. Mit diesen Entwicklungsproblemen beschäftigen sich seit langem die Autoren des Buches: der theoretische Physiker Reiner Kümmel von der Universität Würzburg, der Physiker und Ökonom Dietmar Lindenberger von der Universität Köln und dem Energiewirtschaftlichen Institut an dieser Universität und der Ökonom Niko Paech von der Universität Siegen. “Es ist mir ein Vergnügen, den Lesern dieses Buch zu empfehlen. Es wird von der Idee getrieben, die physikalischen Grenzen menschlichen Wirtschaftens mithilfe der Thermodynamik auszuloten, einer der universellsten physikalischen Theorien, die wir haben.“ Dieter Meschede, Professor für Physik, Universität Bonn.

Thermodynamics. --- Political economy. --- Thermodynamics. --- International Political Economy.

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Introduces new approaches to international political economy in the Anglo-North American tradition, as well as alternative syntheses being developed in Africa, Australia, Japan, and Latin America.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.

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Challenging and revising traditional perspectives with new evidence, this collection addresses the new international role of the Pacific Basin nations and the political and economic forces that are influencing their growth and stability.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.

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Confronting the corrosive influence that war economies typically have on the prospects for peace in war-torn societies, this study critically analyzes current policy responses and offers a thought-provoking foundation for the development of more effective peacebuilding strategies. The authors focus on the role played by trade in precipitating and fueling conflict, with particular emphasis on the regional dynamics that are created by war economies. Their analysis highlights the darker side of the commitment to deregulation, open markets, and the expansion of trade routes that are key features of globalization. In each of three case studies—-Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Bosnia—they examine the nature of the war economy, the regional networks developed to support it, its legacies, and the impact of initiatives to transform it. That transformation, they argue, a process central to the transition from violent conflict to sustainable peace, can best be achieved through approaches that recognize critical regional factors.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.