Reconstructing the global political economy : an analytical guide /
"This textbook examines the challenges facing the world economy as a result of climate change and social and economic inequality, and provides future-oriented solutions to them. Andersson presents and explains key concepts from Global Political Economy to show how to design and analyse potentia...
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2020
Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1 Change Is Possible and Necessary
- Points of departure
- Institutions
- Power
- Structure of the book
- Further reading
- 2. The Political Economy of Everyday Life
- Gender
- Racism
- Class
- Intersectionality
- Love
- Reconstructing everyday life
- Lifestyles and sustainability
- Ecological footprint
- Energy return on energy invested
- Social justice
- Fighting racism and gender oppression
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- 3. Markets Are What We Make Them
- The state as we know it
- The multilateral institutional system
- Multilateral economic institutions
- The International Monetary Fund
- The World Bank
- Free trade and growth
- The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- Change in the global economic order
- Reconstructive lessons from the 1970s and 1980s
- Markets for a sustainable future
- Solving problems
- Transformation of market structures
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- 4. Trade Constructs
- The global free-trade regime
- The WTO: a victim of its own success
- The Batde of Seattle
- The Doha Development Round
- The Cancun breakdown (2003)
- Breakdown in Geneva (2008)
- Prevailing free trade?
- Reconstructing trade
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- 5. What Development?
- Overdevelopment in the North
- The debt trap
- SAP reconstruction
- Lessons from the SAP era
- The Beijing Consensus
- Designing another modern project
- Poverties
- Addressing poverties
- Degrowth and the upper-class problem
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- 6. Financial Markets and the Future
- Financial instruments
- The logic of the whole thing
- The actors
- The 2008 crisis
- The G20 to the rescue
- Reconstructing global financial markets
- Reconstructing ownership
- Money
- Debt
- Endemic risks
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- 7. Globalized Production
- What is a firm?
- The end of Fordism
- Post-Fordist political dynamics
- Clusters and regions
- Reconstructing global production
- What's in a firm?
- Reconstructing the corporation
- Technology and reconstruction
- Gender, class and racism
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- 8. Do Not Waste a Crisis
- Sustainable finance?
- Just, sustainable global production
- Treaties for sustainable trade
- Post-crisis markets
- Conclusion.