Global political economy / edited by John Ravenhill.

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An expert team of international authors present a diverse and comprehensive selection of theories and issues, carefully brought together by experienced editor John Ravenhill. Crucially, debates are presented through a critical lens to encourage students to unpack claims, form independent views, and challenge assumptions. This text is the only introduction to global political economy that lets students learn from the very top scholars in the field.

Now in its sixth edition, this highly successful textbook has been thoroughly updated with contemporary real word examples, including the impact of the Trump administration, Brexit, and economic nationalism. Furthermore, new analysis has been added on the international political economy of work, labour, and energy. This ensures that Global Political Economy is the most up-to-date and relevant textbook on the subject available. This book is supported by online resources designed to help students take their learning further.

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• Preface and Acknowledgement (p. v)
• New to this Edition (p. vii)
• Brief Contents (p. ix)
• Detailed Contents (p. xi)
• List of Figures (p. xv)
• List of Boxes (p. xvii)
• List of Tables (p. xix)
• Abbreviations (p. xxi)
• About the Contributors (p. xxv)
• Guided Tour OF Learning Features (p. xxvii)
• Guided Tour OF the Online Resources (p. xxix)
• Part I Theoretical Approaches to Global Political Economy (p. 1)
• 1 The Study of Global Political Economy (p. 3)
• Prologue: The rules-based order under threat (p. 4)
• The world economy pre-1914 (p. 8)
• The world economy in the interwar period (p. 11)
• The world economy post-1945 (p. 13)
• The study of global political economy (p. 17)
• 2 The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Theoretical Traditions in Global Political Economy (p. 25)
• Introduction (p. 26)
• Teaching global political economy through the textbooks (p. 27)
• GPE realism and the nineteenth-century nationalist political economy tradition (p. 31)
• GPE liberalism and the nineteenth-century appropriation of the Smithian political economy tradition (p. 35)
• GPE Marxism and the nineteenth-century Marxian political economy tradition (p. 39)
• GPE feminism and the nineteenth-century popularization of classical economics for women (p. 44)
• Conclusion (p. 48)
• 3 Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy (p. 52)
• Introduction (p. 52)
• Globalization and the need for international cooperation (p. 53)
• International cooperation: A strategic interdependence approach (p. 57)
• International cooperation: A variety of solutions (p. 64)
• The formation and evolution of institutions (p. 67)
• Conclusion (p. 73)
• 4 The Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policies (p. 76)
• Introduction (p. 76)
• Policy preferences (p. 77)
• Institutions (p. 90)
• Conclusions, extensions, and complications (p. 97)
• Part II Global Trade and Production (p. 109)
• 5 The Evolution of the Global Trade Regime (p. 111)
• Introduction (p. 112)
• Historical antecedents: 1860 to 1945 (p. 113)
• The birth of the GATT (p. 116)
• The GATT to 1994 (p. 119)
• The Uruguay Round (p. 120)
• The WTO (p. 126)
• The WTO and civil society (p. 131)
• The Doha Round (p. 133)
• Challenges to the multilateral trade system (p. 136)
• Conclusion (p. 137)
• 6 Regional Trade Agreements (p. 140)
• Introduction (p. 140)
• Regional trade agreements (p. 141)
• Forms of regional trade cooperation (p. 141)
• Why regionalism? (p. 141)
• The political economy of regionalism (p. 151)
• The rush to regionalism (p. 153)
• The economic consequences of regional integration (p. 161)
• Regionalism and the global trade regime: Stepping stone or stumbling block? (p. 164)
• The evidence (p. 167)
• Regional financial cooperation (p. 170)
• 7 The Globalization of Production (p. 175)
• Introduction (p. 176)
• The rise of global production (p. 176)
• Global value chains: Governance and location (p. 182)
• China as the world's factory (p. 188)
• Conclusion (p. 194)
• Part III Global Finance (p. 197)
• 8 The Evolution of the international Monetary and Financial System (p. 199)
• Introduction (p. 200)
• The fate of a previous globally integrated financial and monetary order (p. 200)
• The Bretton Woods order (p. 203)
• The globalization of financial markets (p. 205)
• The collapse of the gold exchange standard and the future of the dollar (p. 209)
• The breakdown of the adjustable peg exchange rate regime (p. 214)
• Conclusion (p. 219)
• 9 Financial Openness and the Challenge of Global Governance (p. 222)
• Introduction: The globalization of finance (p. 223)
• Local politics, global markets (p. 224)
• The nature and variety of financial crises (p. 226)
• The changing policy context (p. 228)
• Systemic risk and financial stability (p. 230)
• Managing systemic emergencies and preventing future crises (p. 235)
• Debt financing and restructuring in emerging-market and developing countries (p. 239)
• Building global governing capacity? (p. 243)
• Part IV Globalization and the State (p. 247)
• 10 The Logics of Economic Globalization (p. 249)
• Introduction (p. 250)
• A global economy? Economic globalization and the integration of the world economy (p. 251)
• The logics of economic globalization (p. 267)
• The crisis of economic globalization: Deglobalization, 'slowbalisation', or a 'third age'? (p. 276)
• Conclusion (p. 279)
• 11 Globalization's Impact on States (p. 282)
• Introduction (p. 282)
• The globalization of politics and the politics of globalization (p. 284)
• Globalization and the crisis of the nation state (p. 285)
• Globalization and state retrenchment: The evidence assessed (p. 292)
• Conclusions (p. 307)
• Part V Development, Equality, and the Environment (p. 311)
• 12 Global Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Power and Evidence in Global 'Best Practice' Economic Policy (p. 313)
• Introduction (p. 315)
• The neo-liberal ascendancy and the Washington Consensus (p. 317)
• Long-term economic growth and the 'middle income trap' (p. 321)
• Globalization waves in the hierarchical world economy (p. 324)
• World income and population distribution (p. 330)
• Growth and geographical distribution (p. 334)
• Income inequality between countries (p. 335)
• Functional income inequality between capital and labour (p. 340)
• Poverty (p. 341)
• How to explain the globalization consensus (p. 345)
• Conclusions (p. 349)
• 13 The Political Economy of Development (p. 354)
• Introduction (p. 355)
• Ways of thinking about development (p. 356)
• Development theory in practice (p. 362)
• Beyond the Washington Consensus (p. 366)
• Global development in the 2010s (p. 374)
• Interpreting the relationship between globalization and development (p. 380)
• Conclusion: A(nother) new era of global development? (p. 381)
• 14 The Political Economy of the Environment (p. 384)
• Introduction: The political economy of environmental change (p. 385)
• History of global environmentalism (p. 389)
• Economic growth, trade, and corporations (p. 394)
• A sustainable future? Financing and regimes (p. 400)
• Conclusion (p. 409)
• Glossary (p. 413)
• References (p. 425)
• Index (p. 489)

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