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]).
Neoliberalism and Climate Policy in the United States: From market fetishism to the developmental state
1st Edition
By Robert MacNeil
December 12, 2019
This book explores how Washington’s efforts to act on climate change have been translated under conditions of American neoliberalism, where the state struggles to find a stable and legitimate role in the economy, and where environmental and industrial policy are enormously contentious topics. ...
Polanyi in times of populism: Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas
1st Edition
By Christopher Holmes
December 12, 2019
The rise of populism across Europe and the US – first in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and then in the shape of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Brexit vote in 2016 – are indicative of a seismic shift in the terrain of economic ideas in public discourse....
Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk: Money Cultures at the Bank of England
1st Edition
By John Morris
December 12, 2019
Drawing on the history of modern finance, as well as the sociology of money and risk, this book examines how cultural understandings of finance have contributed to the increased capitalization of the UK financial system following the Global Financial Crisis. Providing both a ...
Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy: Power, Control and Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Randall Germain
December 12, 2019
This edited volume addresses the 2007/2009 financial crisis as the occasion to engage critically with the corpus of Susan Strange’s work, in order to consider what changes (if any) this crisis portends for the structural organization of the global political economy. The contributors use Strange’s ...
The Global Governance of Precarity: Primitive Accumulation and the Politics of Irregular Work
1st Edition
By Nick Bernards
December 12, 2019
‘Standard’ employment relationships, with permanent contracts, regular hours, and decent pay, are under assault. Precarious work and unemployment are increasingly common, and concern is also growing about the expansion of informal work and the rise of ‘modern slavery’. However, precarity and ...
The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch
1st Edition
Edited
By Matias E. Margulis
December 12, 2019
The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities. Prebisch’s ground-breaking ideas as an economist – the terms-of-trade ...
Bitcoin and Beyond: Cryptocurrencies, Blockchains, and Global Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
July 29, 2019
Since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009 several hundred different ‘cryptocurrencies’ have been developed and become accepted for a wide variety of transactions in leading online commercial marketplaces and the ‘sharing economy’, as well as by more traditional retailers, manufacturers, and even by ...
Culture, Political Economy and Civilisation in a Multipolar World Order: The Case of Russia
1st Edition
By Ray Silvius
October 18, 2018
This book seeks to understand how Russia’s multifaceted rejection of American unipolarity and de-territorialised neo-liberal capitalism has contributed to the gestation of the present multipolar moment in the global political economy. Analysing Western world order precepts via the actions of a ...
The State of Copyright: The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world
1st Edition
By Debora Halbert
August 23, 2018
This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws. While mapping out the primary actors in the context of globalization and the modern political economy of information ownership, the argument is made that alternatives to further ...
Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action
1st Edition
By Stefanie Khoury, David Whyte
August 14, 2018
This book develops an analysis of the historical, political and legal contexts behind current demands by NGOs and the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold corporations accountable for their human rights violations. Based on an analysis of the range of mechanisms of accountability that ...
Transnational Capital and Class Fractions: The Amsterdam School Perspective Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Bob Jessop, Henk Overbeek
August 10, 2018
Emerging in the late 1970s, the Amsterdam School’s (AS) most distinctive contribution to international political economy was the systematic incorporation of the Marxian concept of capital fractions into the study of international politics. Contending that politics in advanced capitalist countries ...
The Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Di Muzio
July 31, 2018
This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel ...