scholarly journals Unavoidability of Sino-American rift: History of strategic decoupling

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Anis H Bajrektarevic
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Wellbeing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Theory

Does our history only appear overheated, while it is essentially calmly predetermined? Is it directional or conceivable, dialectic and eclectic or cyclical, and therefore cynical? Surely, our history warns (no matter if the Past is seen as a destination or resource). Does it also provide for a hope? Hence, what is in front of us: destiny or future? Theory loves to teach us that extensive debates on what kind of economic system is most conductive to human wellbeing is what consumed most of our civilizational vertical. However, our history has a different say: It seems that the manipulation of the global political economy (and usage of fear as the currency of control) – far more than the introduction of ideologies – is the dominant and arguably more durable way that human elites usually conspired to build or break civilizations, as planned projects.

Cameralism as Sonderweg of German Mercantilism?

2021 ◽  
pp. 389-405
Author(s):  
Lars Magnusson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in Cameralism, both as a discourse and as an administrative political economy, in both theory and practice. Attention has been drawn to how Cameralism—defined as thought and practice—should be understood. The aim of this article is to take a step back and focus on the historiography of Cameralism from the nineteenth century onwards. Even though many in recent times have challenged old and seemingly dated conceptualizations and interpretations, they are still very much alive. Most profoundly this has implied that Cameralism most often in the past has been acknowledged as an expression of—German. as it were—exceptionalism to the general history of economic doctrine and thinking.

Global Cities in the Global Corporate Network

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 2297-2323 ◽  
Author(s):  
William K Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
World Cities ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Corporate Power ◽  
Corporate Network

Since the 1980s two separate literatures—one focused on global cities, the other on transnational corporate interlocking—have explored issues of hierarchy and networking within the global political economy. I present an analysis of how major cities and interlocking corporate directorates are articulated together into a global network. Findings indicate that the network is concentrated in the main world cities in a way that reinforces the northern transatlantic economic system. However, the structure of the network is more nationally focused, and more complex, than that predicted by global cities theorizations. To account for the structure, I present a multifactoral framework featuring sociohistorical processes as well as spatiotemporal constraints. In conclusion, I explore implications for sociological analysis of a ‘new network bourgeoisie’, invested with several kinds of corporate power and exercising agency both within and beyond the boardrooms of the world's major corporations.

14. The Political Economy of the Environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 384-412
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Environmental Regimes ◽  
Environmental Institutions ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
History Of ◽  
Growth Production ◽  
International Environmental Regimes

This chapter assesses the global political economy of the environment. The growth of the world economy is transforming the Earth's environment. Nothing is particularly controversial about this statement. Yet, sharp disagreements arise over the nature of this transformation. Is the globalization of capitalism a force of progress and environmental solutions? Or is it a cause of the current global environmental crisis? The chapter addresses these questions by examining the debates around some of the most contentious issues at the core of economic globalization and the environment: economic growth, production, and consumption; trade; and transnational investment. It begins with a glance at the general arguments about how the global political economy affects the global environment. The chapter then traces the history of global environmentalism — in particular, the emergence of international environmental institutions with the norm of sustainable development. It also evaluates the effectiveness of North–South environmental financing and international environmental regimes.

“Cheap Energy” in Raj Patel and Jason W Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Benjamin Anders
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Price Mechanism ◽  
Sustainable Society ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This debates essay offers a summary and critique of the chapter “Cheap Energy” in A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Jason W Moore and Raj Patel. In the text of my comment, I suggest that this work—while intellectually generative—pays insufficient attention to broader analytical and theoretical debates within Global Political Economy and the study of science and technology that its analysis addresses. Additionally, the authors do not address the failure of the only major attempt to jettison the price mechanism as a system for allocating resources under conditions of industrialization—the Marxist-Leninist command economies—to generate anything approaching a sustainable society.

Mapping Biotechnology: From Epistemic Artifacts to Geographies of Control

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-138
Author(s):  
Michael S. Carolan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Distribution ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
Biological Resources ◽  
The Past ◽  
Path Dependencies ◽  
Scientific Representations ◽  
Genomic Sciences

This article maps key epistemological and ontological terrains associated with biotechnology. Beginning with the epistemological, a comparison is made between the scientific representations of today, particularly as found in the genomic sciences, and the scientific representations of the past. In doing this, we find these representations have changed over the centuries, which has been of significant consequence in terms of giving shape to today's global political economy. In the following section, the sociopolitical effects of biotechnology are discussed, particularly in terms of how the aforementioned representations give shape to global path dependencies. By examining the epistemological and ontological assumptions that give shape to the global distribution of informational and biological resources, this article seeks to add to our understanding of today's bioeconomy and the geographies of control it helps to create.

“Even The Black Women Wear Strands of Pearls”

2018 ◽  
pp. 78-127
Author(s):  
Molly A. Warsh
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Union ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pearl Fishing ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Black Pearl

This chapter considers the enduring significance of the Caribbean pearl-fishing settlements in the second half of the sixteenth century. In the wake of a devastating tsunami in 1541, the Pearl Coast never again reached the pearl-producing heights of the 1520s and 1530s, yet its complex political economy demanded constant crown attention and recognition of the centrality of black pearl divers to the region’s identity, as evidenced by the royal coat of arms granted to Margarita Island in 1600. This era coincided with the political merger of Portugal and Spain, a contentious political union with profound repercussions for the rules governing the movement of people and products within and beyond Iberian realms. Pearls and pearl fishing, meanwhile, continued to evoke maritime wealth and power beyond Spain, explored in art by painters charged with conveying the wonders of a world in transformation. As royal chroniclers reflected on the early history of the American pearl fisheries with an eye to assessing the errors and accomplishments of the past, crown officials sought to improve their management of these unruly settlements. Meanwhile, enslaved laborers in Venezuela and diplomats in England and Italy continued to use pearls to navigate the changing parameters of their lives.

Planned Nature as a General Form and Source Category of Economic System

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-146
Author(s):  
Viktor Cherkovets
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scientific Heritage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Category ◽  
Fundamental Categories ◽  
University Course

The article prepared for the 75-th anniversary of the Faculty of Economics of the Moscow State Lomonosov University shows one of the periods of scientific & pedagogical activities of the oldest Faculty’s departments — Department of Political Economy, which sources are somewhere in XIII century. As autonomous unit of the Faculty of Economics it was established in 1953 on the 12-th year of the Faculty’s existence at the Moscow University in connection with opening of the University’s new building on the Lenin Hills. «The Moscow University Review, Series Economy, 6» has devoted special issue N 4, 2016 to Faculty’s jubilee, where there were published several articles representing University’s scientific heritage in economic branch, among them there are some works by the Faculty’s scientists. The article been proposed here proceeds that very series of publications. In this case the author speaks about the history of working at one of the fundamental categories of political economy of Socialism — planned nature of development of socialist economy realized by the staff of Department of Political Economy lead by Doctor of Science (Econ.), Professor, Merited Science Worker of the RSFSR N.A.Tsagolov in the 2-volume University «Course of Political Economy» (1–3 editions). The author of the article is one of direct participants of working at this category and redaction of both volumes of the «Course».

2. The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Theoretical Traditions in Global Political Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-51
Author(s):  
Matthew Watson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Friedrich List ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Origins

This chapter focuses on the historical origins and the subsequent intellectual lineage of the three core theoretical positions within contemporary global political economy (GPE): realism, liberalism, and Marxism. ‘Textbook GPE’ privileges nineteenth-century understandings of political economy when discussing the pre-history of its own field. This helps explains GPE's treatment of feminist scholarship within the textbooks; feminism remains largely marginalized from textbook GPE, presented as something of a postscript to avoid accusations of it having been omitted altogether rather than being placed centre stage in the discussion. The chapter then looks at how the nineteenth-century overlay operates in textbook GPE. To do so, it makes sense to concentrate in the first instance on the issue that did most to divide nineteenth-century economists: namely, the free trade policies resulting from the general ascendancy of laissez-faire ideology. The most celebrated of the critics, Friedrich List, is treated much more as a dependable authority figure in GPE than he is in the history of economic thought. Indeed, in textbook GPE, the disputes between realist and liberal positions is very often presented initially through an account of List's work, despite the pre-history of liberalism being much the longer of the two.

A Decade After the Asian Financial Crisis: Regionalism and International Architecture in a Globalized World

Asian Survey ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 834-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Asian Financial Crisis ◽  
Washington Consensus ◽  
Global Political Economy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Regionalism ◽  
Globalized World

The China-driven rise of Asia to the center of the global political economy since the Asian financial crisis under systems of political economy manifestly different from those of the Washington Consensus poses a challenge that has been met by neither helter-skelter Asian regionalism nor by American strategic inattentiveness of the past decade.

The Effect of Alex Haley's Roots on How Gambians Remember the Atlantic Slave Trade

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 295-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald R. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The Gambia ◽  
The Body ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade

Beginning in late August 1974, I spent eight months in The Gambia, collecting oral traditions. My intention was to use what I obtained to reconstruct the history of Niumi, a precolonial “state” (Mandinka: banko) located at the mouth of the Gambia River. Over three centuries of slave trading in the river, Niumi was a dominant player in the region's political economy. Thus, one of my primary goals was to learn how Gambians remembered the centuries-long commerce that connected people living along the Gambia River to a vast Atlantic economic system, the heart of which was the sale and transportation of humans.To my disappointment, with only a few exceptions, Gambian informants did not recall much about the slave trade. In Albreda and Juffure, the two Gambia-River villages where people were most involved in dealings with Europeans during the slave-trading era, the best informants could say little beyond noting ruins of old buildings and mentioning vague doings of “the Portuguese.” In the end, only three informants were able and willing to say anything beyond the most banal generalities about the capture, movement, and sale of slaves that occurred in the Gambia River. My assessment was that in the body of stories that Gambians held in their collective memory, a vast void existed between tales of the long-ago, and likely mythical, origins of a clan, village, or state and events that occurred much more recently, in this case after the British settled Bathurst, near the river's mouth, in 1816.

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