The new Israel : peacemaking and liberalization / edited by Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shafir, Gershon.

Peled, Yoav.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic conditions.

Israel--Economic conditions.

Israel.

Israel--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Peace.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Socioeconomic Liberalization of Israel / Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled 1

Part 1 A State-Centered Economy

2 Challenges to Separatism: Joint Action by Jewish and Arab Workers in Jewish-Owned Industry in Mandatory Palestine / Deborah S. Bernstein 17

3 The Ideological Wellspring of Zionist Capitalism: The Impact of Private Capital and Industry on the Shaping of the Dominant Zionist Ideology / Michal Frenkel, Yehouda Shenhav, Hanna Herzog 43

4 From "Eretz Yisrael Haovedet" to "Yisrael Hashnia": The Social Discourse and Social Policy of Mapai in the 1950s / Dov Khenin 71

Part 2 Liberalization

5 Economic Liberalization and the Breakup of the Histadrut's Domain / Lev Luis Grinberg, Gershon Shafir 103

6 Liberalization and the Transformation of the Political Economy / Michael Shalev 129

7 Change and Continuity in the Israeli Political Economy: Multi-Level Analysis of the Telecommunications and Energy Sectors / David Levi-Faur 161

8 The Great Economic-Juridical Shift: The Legal Arena and the Transformation of Israel's Economic Order / Ran Hirschl 189

9 "The Promised Land of Business Opportunities:" Liberal Post-Zionism in the Glocal Age / Uri Ram 217

Part 3 The Peace Process

10 Peace and Profits: The Globalization of Israeli Business and the Peace Process / Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled 243

11 Regional Cooperation and the MENA Economic Summits / Jonathan Paris 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813335671

OCLC:

41977339