Essays about: "command economy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words command economy.

  1. 1. Inevitable Algorimages : The Necropolitical Infrastructure of YouTube's Digital Dispositif

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Leo Hansson Nilson; [2019]
    Keywords : YouTube; dispositif; control; power; archive; subjectification; algorithms; database; interface; necropolitics; infrastructure; mode of production; protocol; capitalism; machines; spectacle;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the relation between technology and the social, how they determine and naturalize each other, by examining YouTube's socio-technical infrastructure. YouTube is theorized as a dispositif that produces regimes of knowledge, power and subjectification within "control societies" characterized by an informational mode of production. READ MORE

  3. 2. Water Management in Mongolia

    University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Myagmersuren Ochirkhuyag; [2011]
    Keywords : sustainable development; transition countries; water resources; Environmental Kuznets Curve; institutional theory;

    Abstract : The world experiences large-scale ecosystems degradation in an every part of the planet - in rich as well as in and poor parts. Unstable economic conditions together with weak law enforcements make low income countries face more severe forms of natural destruction. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Transition in Kazakhstan - From Command to Market Economy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Fredborn Larsson; [2010]
    Keywords : Kazakhstan; Transition Economy; command economy; former Soviet Union; J-curve; privatisation; shock therapy; Economics; econometrics; economic theory; economic systems; economic policy; Nationalekonomi; ekonometri; ekonomisk teori; ekonomiska system; ekonomisk politik; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union the newly independent state of Kazakhstan launched reforms aiming at dismantling the command economy and developing a market economy integrated into the world economy. The reform programme was relatively rapid and comprehensive and inspired by the ‘shock therapy’ philosophy that dominated in the early 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 4. Recruitment in Problematic Market Conditions: An Empirical Study : Recession vs. Demographic Change

    University essay from IHH, Företagsekonomi

    Author : Johan Arnesson; Daniel Hökfelt; Madelene Yavus Iskander; [2008]
    Keywords : Rekrytering; Human Resource Management; Recession; Ekonomisk avmattning; Demografi; Demografisk förändring; Anställning; Jönköping; Östergötland;

    Abstract :   ‟Recession‟ and ‟Layoff‟ were the buzz words of late 2008. Economic slowdown and recession have hit the economy hard. At the same time people in society are getting older and the demographic profile of the population is getting increasingly top heavy, with the retirements of the 1940‟s baby boomers expected to peak in 2010. READ MORE

  6. 5. Getting Along: The Case for Regional Economic Integration in the Commonwealth of Independent States

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Wilhelm Löwenhielm; [2006]
    Keywords : Commonwealth of Independent States; Economic integration; Central Asia; Transcaucasia; multilateralism;

    Abstract : From the ruins of the collapsed Soviet empire emerged 15 new independent countries. The communist command economy had integrated the Soviet territory closely in terms of production and transportation networks, which were effectively dissolved in the early 1990s. READ MORE