RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

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1. Gender and Global Restructuring

   Sightings, Sites and Resistances, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context. Divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances,...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
2. Cultural Political Economy

   Edited by Jacqueline Best, Matthew Paterson

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   The global political economy is inescapably cultural. Whether we talk about the economic dimensions of the "war on terror", the sub-prime crisis and its aftermath, or the ways in which new information technology has altered practices of production and consumption, it has become increasingly clear...

   Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
3. Savage Economics

   Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism

   By David L. Blaney, Naeem Inayatullah

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx, it provides a systematic and fundamental...

   Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
4. The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights, 2nd ed

   The New Enclosures

   By Christopher May

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   The first edition established itself as one of the leading books to situate the issue of intellectual property within the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE). Since its publication, intellectual property has continued to rise up the global agenda, reflecting expanding interest in...

   Published September 14th 2009 by Routledge
5. Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism

   The Politics of Resistance and Domination

   By Susanne Soederberg

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book...

   Published September 13th 2009 by Routledge
6. Capital as Power

   A Study of Order and Creorder

   By Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But...

   Published May 21st 2009 by Routledge
7. The Industrial Vagina

   The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade

   By Sheila Jeffreys

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have...

   Published November 10th 2008 by Routledge
8. Beyond States and Markets

   The Challenges of Social Reproduction

   Edited by Isabella Bakker, Rachel Silvey

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and...

   Published May 13th 2008 by Routledge
9. Critical Perspectives on Global Governance

   Rights and Regulation in Governing Regimes

   By Jean Grugel, Nicola Piper

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   The first in-depth analysis of how global governance impacts on the lives of ordinary people. This new volume includes four detailed case studies on labour, migration, children and development that explore the actual nature of governance policies in the GPE. Jean Grugel and Nicola Piper&...

   Published December 5th 2007 by Routledge
10. Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics

    Regulation for the Rest of Us?

    By Ronnie Lipschutz, James K. Rowe

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    Globalization is moving fast, impacting on the life of all nations with accelerating force. In this new study Ronnie Lipschutz shows how it is being handled by specific groups seeking positive outcomes for the people and causes they represent. Globalization, Governmentality and Global...

    Published August 31st 2005 by Routledge