Book Review: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Jacqueline Best, The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005, 219 pp., $21.95 pbk.)

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-811
Author(s):  
Oliver Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Finance ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
History Of

Book review: Islam, S. and Hossain, I. 2016: Social Justice in the Globalisation of Production: Labor, Gender, and the Environment Nexus

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-193
Author(s):  
Regina Hansda
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Production Labor

Islam, S. and Hossain, I. 2016: Social Justice in the Globalisation of Production: Labor, Gender, and the Environment Nexus. London: Palgrave Macmillan, International Political Economy Series. Xvi + 206 pp. $109.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-137-43400-5.

Book review: Elias, J. and Roberts, J. 2018: Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-170
Author(s):  
Divya Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Edward Elgar

Elias, J. and Roberts, J. 2018: Handbook on the International Political Economy of Gender. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 544 pp. £162 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9781783478835.

The Geography of Money. By Benjamin J. Cohen. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. 229p. $37.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 512-513
Author(s):  
Tony Porter
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Technical Literature ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Global Restructuring ◽  
Administrative Functions ◽  
Mental Map

This new book by one of the most distinguished senior contributors to scholarship on the international political economy (IPE) of money is a fascinating and ambitious effort to remap our understandings of the geography of money. Cohen argues convincingly that the prevailing mental map based on one nation/one money is outmoded. Monies are primarily differentiated today not by territory but by their function in a hierarchical pyramid-like arrangement; the few currencies at the top are used widely internationally, whereas those at the bottom have been displaced even within their home borders and may now serve only trivial administrative functions. The great number of theoretical and empirical insights into an important process of global restructuring, and the engaging and straightforward style, should make this book of interest well beyond those who specialize in the sometimes dauntingly technical literature on global money and finance.

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