Political Economy
Comparative, International, and Historical Perspectives
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Open AccessThe antecedents of MNC political risk and uncertainty under right-wing populist governments
Right-wing populist parties who obtain governmental power rely on ethno-nationalist mobilization for domestic legitimacy. They may therefore adopt policies that explicitly seek to disadvantage foreign multinat...
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Fordism and Embedded Liberalism: The Economic Order Between World War II and the 1970s
Chapter 13 explains how the Fordist mode of production in combination with the multilateral system of “embedded liberalism” led to a specific phase of industrial capitalist development between 1945 and 1973. T...
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Capitalist Diversity in High-Income Economies
Chapter 3 presents the main empirical differences between liberal and coordinated types of capitalism, with a particular focus on the USA and the UK, respectively, Germany and Austria. It starts from the theor...
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The Coming Phase of Capitalism: An Age of State Capitalism and Populism?
Chapter 15 invites theory-based and empirically founded speculation about the coming phase of capitalist development. Against this background, the chapter outlines the contours of state capitalism as a possibl...
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Theoretical Foundations of International Political Economy
International Political Economy expands the perspective of Comparative Political Economy to include transnational economic relations, foreign economic policy, and international economic institutions. Chapter 5...
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Trade and Markets
The ideal of free markets is a cornerstone of many beliefs about modern economies. Chapter 7 shows, however, that markets are only one way of distributing goods and services and that the functioning of the mar...
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Transnationale Akteure und internationale Politik: Theoretische Forschungsperspektiven und empirische Illustration am Beispiel Nichtregierungsorganisationen
Transnationale Akteure, d. h. private Organisationen mit grenzüberschreitenden politischen Aktivitäten, gehören insbesondere seit den 1990er- und 2000er-Jahren zu den prominenten Forschungsgegenständen in den ...
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Labor and Migration
The social division of labor and the relationship between capital and labor are at the core of capitalism. Chapter 9 introduces these aspects and discusses national differences in the institutional design of l...
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Welfare, Inequality, and Social Reproduction
International Political Economy is not only concerned with the visible sphere of production, but also with the less visible—but equally vital—sphere of reproduction. Chapter 10 begins by explaining the latter’...
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Theoretical Foundations of Historical Political Economy
Historical political economy extends comparative and international political economy with a view to overarching processes and dynamics in specific historical phases. Against this background, Chapter 12 present...
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Theoretical Foundations of Comparative Political Economy
Chapter 2 presents the most important theoretical perspectives of comparative political economy in their historical context. The chapter starts from a definition of capitalism as a geographically and historica...
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Globalization, Financialization, and Neoliberalism: The Economic Order of the 1980s to 2010s
Chapter 14 shows how the world economic order has been increasingly shaped by a financialized mode of production since the mid-1970s, accompanied by a trend toward globalization and secured by neoliberal polit...
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Capitalist Diversity in Emerging Economies
Chapter 4 applies the previously introduced categories of comparative capitalism research to distinguish between four types of capitalism in emerging economies. In doing so, the chapter focuses primarily on ta...
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Money and Financial Systems
Chapter 6 elaborates on the role of money and financial systems in the capitalist economic cycle. It counters notions of money as a neutral “lubricant” with a political understanding of financial and monetary ...
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Production and Corporations
Innovation and production are central challenges for the organization of modern capitalism. Chapter 8 outlines these and discusses the emergence of the modern company as a central vehicle for innovation, often...
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Climate and the Environment
Chapter 11 sets out the economic organizational problems and distributional conflicts associated with the appropriation of natural resources and, above all, an unfolding climate crisis. In particular, it focus...
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Introduction
Chapter 1 discusses the basic premises of political economy. It proposes a “pre-disciplinary” understanding of it, as was common until the emergence of the separate disciplines of political science, sociology,...
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Open AccessWas kommt nach Corona? Die Folgen der Pandemie für die Wirtschaft
Die Corona-Pandemie hat zum tiefsten wirtschaftlichen Einbruch seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg geführt. Wirtschaftliche Krisen haben in der Vergangenheit häufig einen Richtungswechsel in der Entwicklung des Kapital...
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Einleitung
Kapitel 1 diskutiert die grundlegenden Prämissen der Politischen Ökonomie und schlägt ein „prä-disziplinäres“ Verständnis von ihr vor, wie es bis zur Herausbildung der separaten Disziplinen Politikwissenschaft...
