Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Partisan Change ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Rich ◽  
University Of Massachusetts

Robert Pollin of University of Massachusetts, Amherst reviews “Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age” by Larry M. Bartels,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the validity of many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the poor to shed disturbing light on the workings of American democracy. Discusses the new Gilded Age; the partisan political economy; class politics and partisan change; partisan biases in economic accountability; whether Americans care about inequality; when Homer gets a tax cut; the strange appeal of estate tax repeal; the eroding minimum wage; economic inequality and political representation; and unequal democracy. Bartels is Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Index.”

Book Reviews

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 443-458
Author(s):  
László Csaba ◽  
Bruno S. Sergi ◽  
Kristine Fridberga
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
New York ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Development Economics ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Princeton University

Szentes, Tamás: World Economics. Comparative Theories and Methods of International and Development Economics (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2002, 462 pp.) Kozlov, Vladimir A. (ed. by E. McClarnand MacKinnon):  Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years (New York: Armonk and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2002, 351 pp.) Gilpin, Robert: Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001, 423 pp.)

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 549-552
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary System ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Monetary System

Daniel Gros of Centre for European Policy Studies reviews, “Making the European Monetary Union: The Role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the Origins of the European Central Bank” by Harold James. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the creation of the European Monetary Union and considers its design, process, and risks. Discusses a Napoleonic prelude; the origins of the Committee of Governors; the response to global monetary turbulence; the metaphor of the snake; negotiating the European Monetary System; the malaise of the 1980s; the Delors Committee and the relaunching of Europe; designing a central bank; and the European Monetary System crises. James is Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University.”

Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-137
Author(s):  
Sabine von Mering ◽  
Luke B. Wood ◽  
J. Nicholas Ziegler ◽  
John Bendix ◽  
Marcus Colla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Forced Labour

Dolores L. Augustine, Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018)Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)Cynthia Miller-Idriss, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)Constantin Goschler, ed. Compensation in Practice: The Foundation ‘Remembrance, Responsibility and Future’ and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)Albert Earle Gurganus, Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life (Rochester: Camden House, 2018)Claudia Sternberg, Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, and Kalypso Nicolaïdis, The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)

scholarly journals Not ‘my economy’: A political ethnographic study of interest in the economy

2021 ◽  
pp. 136914812110070
Author(s):  
Anna Killick
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
The Rich

Some political economists explain the apparent downplaying of the importance of economic issues in political events such as Brexit with reference to the growing anger or despair people on low incomes feel about the economy. This ‘everyday political economy’ article draws on an ethnographic study conducted between 2016 and 2018 with residents of an English city to explore what people think about the phenomenon of the economy. It reveals significant differences in how interested high- and low-income participants are in the economy and its role as a bedrock for welfare. Low-income participants are more negative about the economy, particularly contesting politicians’ claims that it is distinct from the human sphere, when they view it as controlled by the rich. However, reasoning is based on post-2008 crisis economic conditions, and any lack of interest in the economy may be more calculative and temporary than is often assumed.

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