Capital, Neoliberalism and Educational Technology

Cultural Capital and Educational Attainment

Of neoliberalism and global health: human capital, market failure and sin/social taxes

This article tells a different but equally important story about neoliberalism and global health than the narrative on structural adjustment policies usually found in the literature. Rather than focus on macroeconomic structural adjustment policies, this story draws our attention to microeconomic taxation policies on tobacco, alcohol and sugar now widely recognised as the best strategy to contr...

Openness, technology capital, and development

In this paper, we extend the growth model to include firm-specific technology capital and use it to assess the gains from opening to foreign direct investment. A firm’s technology capital is its unique know-how from investing in research and development, brands, and organization capital. Technology capital is distinguished from other forms of capital in that a firm can use it simultaneously in ...

Technology Capital Transfer

It is widely believed that an important factor underlying the rapid growth in China is increased foreign direct investment (FDI) and the transfer of foreign technology capital, which is accumulated know-how from investment in research and development (R&D), brands, and organizations that is not specific to a plant. In this paper, we study two channels through which FDI can contribute to upgradi...

Competing Capitalisms and Neoliberalism :

This paper explores the impact of neoliberalism on the ‘Asia-Pacific’ region generally and on Japan and China in particular. It argues that while the impact of neoliberal ideas is having an important long-term impact on the countries of East Asia, there remain important difference in patterns of political practice and economic organisation which continue to distinguish the region. Indeed, there...