by Ivano Cardinale (Editor), Roberto Scazzieri (Editor)
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).
About this book
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.
Table of contents
1 Political Economy: Outlining a Field 1
Part I Foundations
2 The Fields of Policy-Making 29
3 Political Economy and the Public Sphere 53
4 Politics and Economics of Markets 91
5 Historical Political Economy 133
6 Classical Political Economy 171
Part II Research Themes
7 Political Economy of Economic Theory 193
8 Political Economy of Economic Value 235
9 Constitutional Political Economy 259
10 Political Economy of Civil Society 289
11 Industrial Structure and Political Outcomes: The Case of the 2016 US Presidential Election 333
12 Economic Policy 441
13 The Political Economy of Industry 463
14 Political Economy of Liquidity: The European Economic and Monetary Union 489
15 Modern Fiscal Sociology 529
16 Comparative Political Economy 543
17 International Political Economy 605
18 Political Economy of Resources, Technologies, and Rent 657
19 Political Economy of Structural Change 705
20 Political Economy of Social Transformation: China’s Road in a Global Perspective 749
21 Structural Political Economy 769
Part III Ways Ahead
22 Political Economy as Theory of Society 787
Length: 829 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (October 2, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1137442530
ISBN-13: 978-1137442536
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