RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
About the Book Series
For almost two decades now, the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy published by Routledge has been an essential forum for cutting-edge scholarship in International Political Economy, which we understand to be a broadly defined area of research that may cut across other disciplines. The series brings together new and established scholars working in critical, cultural and constructivist political economy. Books in the RIPE Series typically combine an innovative contribution to theoretical debates with rigorous empirical analysis.
The RIPE Series seeks to cultivate:
- Field-defining theoretical advances in International Political Economy.
- Novel treatments of key issue areas, such as global finance, trade, and production, both historical and contemporary.
- Analyses that explore the political economic dimensions of relatively neglected topics, such as the environment, gender, race, and colonialism from both Western and non-Western perspectives.
- Accessible work that will inspire advanced undergraduates and graduate students in International Political Economy.
Susanne Soederberg – Queen’s University, Canada
Adrienne Roberts – The University of Manchester, UK
Samuel Knafo – University of Sussex, UK
Naná de Graaff – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Please copy in Lydia de Cruz, the Editor at Routledge, on any proposal submissions ([email protected]).
Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population
1st Edition
By Susanne Soederberg
September 11, 2014
WINNER of the BISA IPEG Book Prize 2015 http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/ipeg-book-prize-2015-winner-announced/ Under the rubric of ‘financial inclusion’, lending to the poor –in both the global North and global South –has become a highly lucrative and rapidly expanding industry since the 1990s. A ...
Global Capitalism: Selected Essays
1st Edition
By Hugo Radice
August 11, 2014
The essays in this volume were published across the 1984-2011 period, and range across a variety of topics and approaches to investigate the changing nature of global capitalism as a social order. As such, they are a valuable and instructive account of the evolution of global capitalism and of the ...
A Critical History of the Economy: On the birth of the national and international economies
1st Edition
By Ryan Walter
July 03, 2014
Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and politics to develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain. In contrast to typical ...
Capitalist Restructuring, Globalization and the Third Way: Lessons from the Swedish Model
1st Edition
By J. Magnus Ryner
June 19, 2014
This book addresses the contemporary debate about the 'third way' in European social democracy, by analysing the exemplar case of social democracy - 'the Swedish model' - this book challenges the recent 'third way' perspective. The author argues strongly against the widely held belief that the ...
The International Political Economy of Transition
1st Edition
By Stuart Shields
June 19, 2014
Shortlisted for the 2013 BISA IPEG Book Prize, this book explores how Eastern Europe’s post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of neoliberal hegemony in the global political economy, and provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of ...
Nation-States and Money: The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily Gilbert, Eric Helleiner
April 17, 2014
National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by...
The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis
1st Edition
By Bill Dunn
March 21, 2014
The book provides a theoretically and historically informed analysis of the global economic crisis. It makes original contributions to theories of value, of crisis and of the state and uses these to develop a rich empirical study of the changing character of capitalism in the twentieth century and...
Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire: Marketing Development
1st Edition
By April Biccum
December 11, 2013
This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April...
Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax
1st Edition
By James Brassett
November 08, 2013
Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to consider alternative possibilities for ...
The Child in International Political Economy: A Place at the Table
1st Edition
By Alison M.S. Watson
November 08, 2013
This pioneering volume argues for the inclusion of children, and the structure known as ‘childhood’, as a permanent social category worthy of continued study within the discipline of international political economy (IPE). Fundamentally, and very simply, IPE is concerned with the dynamics of ...
World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy
1st Edition
By Paul Langley
November 08, 2013
World Financial Orders challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the malign consequences of change. He looks to the field of International Political Economy (IPE) to ...
The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard
1st Edition
By Samuel Knafo
November 07, 2013
The Making of Modern Finance is a path-breaking study of the construction of liberal financial governance and demonstrates how complex forms of control by the state profoundly transformed the nature of modern finance. Challenging dominant theoretical conceptions of liberal financial governance in ...