International political economy : debating the past, present and future / edited by Nicola Phillips and Catherine E. Weaver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Nicola.

Weaver, Catherine, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book gathers together a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in International Political Economy to debate the evolution of the field, its current state and its future directions. Prompted by recent commentaries on the existence of a 'transatlantic divide' in IPE between an 'American school' and a 'British school', the essays provide a wide-ranging discussion of whether it is useful to think of the field in these terms, what the 'American' and 'British' schools look like, what their achievements and shortcomings are, and what are the desirable future directions for

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Debating the divide - reflections on the past, present and future of international political economy; Part I: Perspectives on the 'American school' of IPE; 1 The American school of IPE; 2 The old IPE and the new; 3 TRIPs across the Atlantic: Theory and epistemology in IPE; 4 Ontology, methodology, and causation in the American school of international political economy; 5 Of intellectual monocultures and the study of IPE; 6 The slow death of pluralism; 7 The 'American' school of IPE?: A dissenting view

8 Beware what you wish for: Lessons for international political economy from the transformation of economics9 Mid-Atlantic: Sitting on the knife's sharp edge; Part II: Perspectives on the 'British school' of IPE; 10 The 'British school' in the global context; 11 Torn between two lovers?: Caught in the middle of British and American IPE; 12 IPE's split brain; 13 Political economy, the 'US School', and the manifest destiny of everyone else; 14 Do the Left-Outmatter?; 15 Pluralist IPE: A view from outside the 'schools'; 16 Division and dialogue in Anglo-American IPE: A reluctant Canadian view

17 The proof of the pudding is in the eating: IPE in light of the crisis of 2007/8Part III: The future of IPE; 18 Mantras, bridges and benchmarks: Assessing the future of IPE; 19 The second crisis in IPE theory; 20 The gift of skepticism and the future of IPE; 21 The richness and diversity of critical IPE perspectives: Moving beyond the debate on the 'British school'; 22 The global financial crisis: Lessons and opportunities for international political economy; 23 Toward a new consensus: From denial to acceptance; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-90614-2

1-136-90615-0

1-282-91270-4

9786612912702

0-203-84250-2

9780203842508

OCLC:

689996540