Modern Political Economy

Author : Jeffrey S. Banks,Eric Alan Hanushek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521478103

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Modern Political Economy by Jeffrey S. Banks,Eric Alan Hanushek Pdf

Political economy has been an essential realm of inquiry and has attracted myriad intellectual adherents for much of the period of modern scholarship. The discipline's formal split into the distinct studies of political science and economics in the nineteenth-century, while advantageous for certain scientific developments, has biased the way economists and political scientists think about many issues, and has placed artificial constraints on the study of many important social issues. This volume calls for a reaffirmation of the importance of the unified study of political economy, and explores the frontiers of the interaction between politics and markets. This volume brings together intellectual leaders of various areas, drawing upon state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical analysis from each of the underlying disciplines. Each chapter, while beginning with a survey of existing work, focuses on profitable lines of inquiry for future developments. Particular attention is devoted to fields of active current development.

Author : Yanis Varoufakis,Joseph Halevi,Nicholas Theocarakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136814747

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Modern Political Economics by Yanis Varoufakis,Joseph Halevi,Nicholas Theocarakis Pdf

Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from a very real capitalism. Modern Political Economics has a single aim: To help readers make sense of how 2008 came about and what the post-2008 world has in store. The book is divided into two parts. The first part delves into every major economic theory, from Aristotle to the present, with a determination to discover clues of what went wrong in 2008. The main finding is that all economic theory is inherently flawed. Any system of ideas whose purpose is to describe capitalism in mathematical or engineering terms leads to inevitable logical inconsistency; an inherent error that stands between us and a decent grasp of capitalist reality. The only scientific truth about capitalism is its radical indeterminacy, a condition which makes it impossible to use science's tools (e.g. calculus and statistics) to second-guess it. The second part casts an attentive eye on the post-war era; on the breeding ground of the Crash of 2008. It distinguishes between two major post-war phases: The Global Plan (1947-1971) and the Global Minotaur (1971-2008). This dynamic new book delves into every major economic theory and maps out meticulously the trajectory that global capitalism followed from post-war almost centrally planned stability, to designed disintegration in the 1970s, to an intentional magnification of unsustainable imbalances in the 1980s and, finally, to the most spectacular privatisation of money in the 1990s and beyond. Modern Political Economics is essential reading for Economics students and anyone seeking a better understanding of the 2008 economic crash.

Author : Jeffry A Frieden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429978524

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Modern Political Economy And Latin America by Jeffry A Frieden Pdf

This is a reader that applies the newest debates in political economy to the analysis of Latin America in a way that is thematically and theoretically cohesive.. Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of carefully selected, edited readings in Latin American political economy. The editors, Jeffry Frieden and Manuel Pastor, Jr., include an introductory chapter, and a concluding article as well as brief introductions to all sections. These inclusions will make explicit the theoretical underpinnings of each article, and will highlight their respective contributions to the ongoing debates in Latin America. } Modern Political Economy and Latin America consists of carefully selected, edited readings in Latin American political economy. The editors, Jeffry Frieden and Manuel Pastor, Jr., include an introductory chapter, and a concluding article as well as brief introductions to all sections. These inclusions will make explicit the theoretical underpinnings of each article, and will highlight their respective contributions to the ongoing debates in Latin America.Latin American economies are undergoing profound transformations. And, in the wake of a decade-long debt crisis, the statist models of the past are giving way to a reliance on the market even as authoritarian rule seems to have ebbed in favor of new or reborn democratic institutions. As a result, the policy framework guiding economic and political development is likely to be fundamentally different. The analysis of Latin America needs a strong dose of modern political economy--one that can bring the area studies field up to date with the recent developments on the theoretical end of the economics and political science professions. This book helps fill that need. }

Author : Harold A. Innis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487518912

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Political Economy in the Modern State by Harold A. Innis Pdf

Political Economy in the Modern State is Harold Innis’s transitional and, in some respects, his most transformative book. Completed in 1946, it is a collection of fifteen chapters plus a remarkable Preface selected and crafted to address four main themes: the problem of power and peace in the post-War era; the ascent of specialized and mechanized forms of knowledge involving, most particularly, the media, the state, and the academy; the crisis facing civilization and, more generally, the modern penchant for unreflexive short-term thinking in the face of mounting contradictions; and Innis’s growing focus on what would be called media bias. In this new edition, editors Robert E. Babe and Edward A. Comor provide not only a general introduction to Innis’s largely forgotten book but also dedicated introductions to each of its fifteen chapters and a comprehensive index. Together, Babe and Comor demonstrate how Innis’s volume reflects a shift in Innis’s focus, away from analytical relativism towards, instead, a reflexive search for objective truths.

Author : Robert Higgs
Publisher : JAI Press(NY)
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X001062540

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Emergence of the Modern Political Economy by Robert Higgs Pdf

Author : Richard B. McKenzie,Gordon Tullock
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000027588444

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Modern Political Economy by Richard B. McKenzie,Gordon Tullock Pdf

Author : S. Reinert,P. Røge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137315557

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The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World by S. Reinert,P. Røge Pdf

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.

Author : Bruno S. Frey
Publisher : New York : Wiley
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4379568

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Modern Political Economy by Bruno S. Frey Pdf

Author : John Dunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521421519

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The Economic Limits to Modern Politics by John Dunn Pdf

Studies the impact of the economic dimension on political issues and decision making.

Author : Lefteris Tsoulfidis,Persefoni Tsaliki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030179670

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Classical Political Economics and Modern Capitalism by Lefteris Tsoulfidis,Persefoni Tsaliki Pdf

This book promotes an in-depth understanding of the key mechanisms that govern the functioning of capitalist economies, pursuing a Classical Political Economics approach to do so. It explores central theoretical issues addressed by the classical economists Smith and Ricardo, as well as Marx, while also operationalizing more recent theoretical developments inspired by the works of Sraffa and other modern classical economists, using actual data from major economies. On the basis of this approach, the book subsequently provides alternative explanations for various microeconomic issues such as the determination of equilibrium prices and their movement induced by changes in income distribution; the dynamics of competition of firms within and between industries; the law of tendential equalization of interindustry profit rates; and international exchanges and transfers of value; as well as macroeconomic issues concerning capital accumulation and cyclical economic growth. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, students, and policymakers seeking new explanations for observed phenomena and interested in the mechanisms that give rise to surface economic categories, such as prices, profits, the unemployment rate, interest rates, and long economic cycles.

Author : James H. Weaver
Publisher : Boston : Allyn and Bacon
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120326439

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Modern Political Economy by James H. Weaver Pdf

Author : Tobias Ten Brink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004262225

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Global Political Economy and the Modern State System by Tobias Ten Brink Pdf

In Global Political Economy and the Modern State System Tobias ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state system, its conflicts, and its transformation. In contrast to the political attractiveness of optimistic theoretical approaches to globalisation, this book demonstrates how an analytical approach rooted in Global Political Economy (GPE) helps to explain both the tendencies towards integration and towards rivalry in international relations. By way of a historical reconstruction of different ‘world order’ phases in the twentieth century, ten Brink analyses multiple, phase-specific variations of socioeconomic and geopolitical conflicts that are significant for the modern capitalist world system. Revised edition of Geopolitik. Geschichte und Gegenwart kapitalistischer Staatenkonkurrenz, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster, 2008.

Author : Robert Fredona,Sophus A. Reinert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319582474

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New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy by Robert Fredona,Sophus A. Reinert Pdf

This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy brings together a select group of young and established scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds—history, economics, law, and political science—in an effort to begin a re-conceptualization of the origins and history of political economy through a variety of still largely distinct but complementary historical approaches—legal and intellectual, literary and philosophical, political and economic—and from a variety of related perspectives: debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and colonial systems, economic cultures, and the history of economic doctrines more narrowly construed. The first decade of the twenty-first century, bookended by 9/11 and a global financial crisis, witnessed the clamorous and urgent return of both 'the political' and 'the economic' to historiographical debates. It is becoming more important than ever to rethink the historical role of politics (and, indeed, of government) in business, economic production, distribution, and exchange. The artefacts of pre-modern and modern political economy, from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries, remain monuments of perennial importance for understanding how human beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered and were conquered. The present volume, assembling some of the brightest lights in the field, eloquently testifies to the rich and powerful lessons to be had from such a historical understanding of political economy and of power in an economic age.

Author : Barry R. Weingast,Donald Wittman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199548477

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy by Barry R. Weingast,Donald Wittman Pdf

Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.

Author : Ronen Palan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134628636

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Global Political Economy by Ronen Palan Pdf

What are the cutting edge debates in global political economy? This book presents an invaluable overview of all the major contemporary debates and approaches at the forefront of European and North American global political economy. The book covers the following topics: * the six central concepts of global political economy: state, firm, capital, power, labour and globalisation * theories at the frorefront of GPE: rational choice, neo-institutionalism, neo-Marxism, constructivism and postmodernity * recent developments in theoretical approaches such as game theory, modern rational and public choice theory, development theory, historical sociology * how global political economy is best understood in terms of three traditions of political economy: Marxism, rationalism and hermeneutics/institutionalism No other book provides such succinct summaries, by international experts in the field, of such topical and wide-ranging issues. This book represents an essential textbook, ideal for students and lecturers in International Political Economy and International Relations.