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This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future.
This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies' material welfare, outlining a broader field of study that encompasses those traditions. This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, students, and anyone looking for a comprehensive reassessment of political economy.
List of contents
1. 1.Political Economy: Outlining a Field- IVANO CARDINALE AND ROBERTO SCAZZIERI.- Part I: Foundations.- 2. The State as a Field- VINCENT DUBOIS.- 3. Political Economy and the Public Sphere- JEREMY ADELMAN AND JESSICA MACK.- 4. 4.Politics and Economics of Markets- CRAIG MULDREW.- 5. Historical Political Economy- SOPHUS REINERT.- 6. Classical Political Economy- IVANO CARDINALE.- Part II: Research Themes.- 7. Political Economy of Economic Theory- ROBERTO SCAZZIERI.- 8. Political Economy of Economic Value- AJIT SINHA.- 9. Constitutional Political Economy- VIKTOR VANBERG.- 10. Political Economy of Civil Society- ADRIAN PABST.- 11. Industrial Structure and Political Outcomes: The Case of the 2016 US Presidential Election- TOM FERGUSON, PAUL JORGENSEN AND JIE CHEN.- 12. Economic Policy- BRUNO AMABLE.- 13. Political Economy of Industry- PATRIZIO BIANCHI AND SANDRINE LABORY.- 14. Political Economy of Liquidity: the European Economic and Monetary Union- RAINER MASERA.- 15. Modern Fiscal Sociology- D'MARIS COFFMAN.- 16. Comparative Political Economy- ROBERT BOYER.- 17. International Political Economy- MARTIN DAUNTON.- 18. Political Economy of Resources, Technologies and Rent- ALBERTO QUADRIO CURZIO AND FAUSTA PELLIZZARI.- 19. Political Economy of Structural Change- MICHAEL LANDESMANN.- 20. Political Economy of Social Transformation: China's Road in a Global Perspective- WANG HUI.- 21. Structural Political Economy- IVANO CARDINALE.- Part III: Ways Ahead.- 22. Political Economy as Theory of Society- IVANO CARDINALE AND ROBERTO SCAZZIERI.
About the author
Ivano Cardinale is Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. He is developing an approach—Structural Political Economy—that uses tools of structural economic analysis and social theory to understand how the economic and the political overlap in contemporary societies. He recently co-edited The Political Economy of the Eurozone (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Roberto Scazzieri is Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Bologna and Fellow of the National Lincei Academy, Italy. He is also Member of Gonville and Caius College and Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. He studies the relationship between persistence and change in economic systems, exploring how the uneven transformation of structures shapes the economic dynamics of societies. He recently co-edited The Political Economy of the Eurozone (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Summary
This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future.
This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material welfare, outlining a broader field of study that encompasses those traditions. This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, students, and anyone looking for a comprehensive reassessment of political economy.
