Bücher der Reihe RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

A comprehensive reassessment of the relevance of Gramsci's theory and practice at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Presenting a concise and instructive introduction to the origins, development and significance of the Amsterdam School's distinct approach, this book provides a unique overview of the School's contemporary significance for the field of International Political Economy.

This book provides a comprehensive and focused overview of the changing dynamics between public and private forms of transnational financial regulation, addressing recent and emerging trends in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis.

Critical Methods in Political and Cultural Economy offers students and scholars the first methods book for the critical school of International Political Economy (IPE). What does it mean to 'do' critical research? How do we write about the evidence we present? This volume explores our shared critical ethic to demonstrate how methods are transformative and reimagines research strategies as both an embodied practice and a social process. By presenting methodologically informed ways of researching, enriched by real-life accounts from academics doing empirical research, the volume seeks to forge a new collaborative path that builds a critical ethic and modes of inquiry within International Political Economy. Substantive chapters advance the pluralism of the critical school of cultural political economy and seek to articulate its nascent research ethic. Short autobiographical vignettes articulate the professional journeys of contributors who 'do' critical political economy. There is practical advice on how to develop evidence from an iterative reflexive research strategy. Using this innovative format offers a guide to methods in critical political economy by engaging directly with the people doing research, not only as technical practice but also as lived experience. The combination of research and practice presented throughout the book offers an extensive and authoritative framework for evaluating how methods are part of critical research and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of IPE.

Analyses how global governance impacts on the lives of ordinary people. This volume includes four case studies on labour, migration, children and development that explore the actual nature of governance policies in the GPE.

Investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. This book examines the ways in which the development has begun to be promoted among the metropolitan public.

Examines whether global finance can provide values like social security, equality and democratic accountability. This book develops a pragmatic approach, focusing on the Tobin tax and explores alternative possibilities for global financial governance.

Challenges the powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. This title provides a fundamental cultural critique of political economy and critically describes the nature of the mainstream understanding of economics.

Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. This book reconnects the social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of shareholder activism.

Taking into account of developments at the World Trade Organization and at the World Intellectual Property Organization, this book incorporates the author's research on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Containing the theoretical and analytical elements, it offers an analysis of how intellectual property is politically constructed.

Argues that culture is a concept that can be used to develop subtle and fruitful analyses of the dynamics and problems of the global political economy. Rediscovering the unacknowledged role of culture in the writings of classical political economists, this book reveals its central place in the historical evolution of post-war capitalism.

Addressing the contemporary debate about the "third way" in European social democracy, this text examines the exemplar case of social democracy, "the Swedish model", and challenges the "third way" perspective.

The global political economy is inescapably cultural. This book argues that culture is a concept that can be used to develop subtle and fruitful analyses of the dynamics and problems of the global political economy. It shows that culture plays a role in constituting different forms of economic life.

Presents a fresh framework for understanding capital as a mode of power. Challenging the liberal and Marxist approaches, this book articulates a theory of accumulation, and develops empirical methods of research.

Exploring difficult and crucial aspects of the transnational gender politics of globalization, this book provides a unique and valuable introduction to the history of the concept of social reproduction from an inter-disciplinary perspective.

Money, finance and credit are literally the lifeblood of the modern economy. This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of the potential and the problems arising from the application of multi-level governance literature to the monetary and financial domain.

This book develops a performative politics of the global event, providing a route into understanding and interpreting the possibilities and limits of the affective turn in market life and holds implications for the classic questions of IPE: who wins, who loses, and how might it be changed?.

Provides an introduction to the various theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production. This book examines issues such as: human trafficking and sex work; women and work; and, migration, labor and gender inequality.

Examines the global regulation of biodiversity politics through the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the WTO and other international treaties. This book assesses how the discourse and politics of sustainable development have contributed to the internationalisation of the state.

Examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have moved from being small-scale, clandestine, and socially despised practices to become very profitable legitimate market sectors that are being legalised and decriminalised by governments.

An analysis of the development of capitalist classes, such as the Freemasons, that cross national boundaries in the global political economy. The author develops a broad-ranging understanding of class in the process of globalisation within several theoretical frameworks. In the RIPE SERIES IN GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Provides an explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which systematically considers and analyzes the networks and organizations of around 1,000 self-conscious neoliberal intellectuals organized in the Mont Pelerin Society.

Investigates how global 'standards of market civilization' have emerged, their justification, and their political, economic and social impact. This book explores the idea of a 'standard of civilization', its implications for governance, and the use of such standards in political theory and economic thought, as well as its historical application.

This book evaluates the claim that in order to explore the changing social foundations of global power relations today, we need to include in our analysis an understanding of global civil society, particularly if we also wish to raise ethical questions about the changing political and institutional practices of transnational governance. Bridging the normative concerns of political theorists with the historical and institutional focus of scholars of international relations and international political economy, this book is of broad interest to students and researchers concerned with international relations, civil society, global governance and ethics.

Focuses on the emergence of employment policy as a political issue and examines unemployment in Europe in the context of globalisation, the implementation of European Monetary Union and the Eastern enlargement of the EU. This title combines theoretical chapters with case-studies of Britain, The Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Central Europe.

This book provides an innovative and in-depth account of the contemporary political economy of capitalist development in the Southern Cone countries of Latin America - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.