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1. Nation-States and Money

   The Past, Present and Future of National Currencies

   Edited by Emily Gilbert, Eric Helleiner

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   National currencies appear to be threatened from all sides. European Union member countries are due to abandon their national currencies in favour of a supranational currency by the year 2000. Elsewhere, the use of foreign currencies within national economic spaces is on the increase, as shown by...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization

   Trade Reform and Economic Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing

   By Tony Heron

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in political economy, and questions the...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. The International Political Economy of Transition

   By Stuart Shields

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   This book explores how Eastern Europe’s post-communist transition can only be understood as part of a broader interrogation of neoliberal hegemony in the global political economy, and provides a detailed historical account of the emergence of neoliberalism in Eastern Central Europe. Adopting an...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. A Critical History of the Economy

   On the birth of the national and international economies

   By Ryan Walter

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and politics to develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain. In contrast to typical...

   Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Politics of European Competition Regulation

   A Critical Political Economy Perspective

   By Hubert Buch-Hansen, Angela Wigger

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   The Politics of European Competition Regulation provides an original and theoretically informed account of the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades. Applying a critical political economy perspective, this book...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Political Economy of Global Remittances

   Gender, Governmentality and Neoliberalism

   By Rahel Kunz

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   Over the last decade, a new phenomenon has emerged within the international community: the Global Remittances Trend (GRT). Thereby, government institutions, international (financial) organisations, NGOs and private sector actors have become interested in migration and remittances and their...

   Published June 8th 2011 by Routledge
7. Global Public Policy

   Business and the Countervailing Powers of Civil Society

   Edited by Karsten Ronit

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   We are in a critical period where civil society organizations actively influence business political behaviour, while corporations and business associations are adopting new and flexible strategies aimed at closer contact with civil society. Against the backdrop of such broad reorientations, this...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
8. National Currencies and Globalization

   Endangered Specie?

   By Paul Bowles

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   Globalization and money – two concepts inextricably linked. In many ways the speed with which financial resources traverse the globe, the opportunities which this provides for the efficient allocation of resources, the possibilities which this creates for financial crises and traders who act as...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
9. Variegated Neoliberalism

   EU varieties of capitalism and International Political Economy

   By Huw Macartney

   Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

   We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives. Variegated Neoliberalism explains why its inequalities persist and how they undermine more social-minded policies towards finance in the EU. The book suggests that...

   Published December 7th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation

    Edited by Henk Overbeek, Bastiaan van Apeldoorn, Andreas Nölke

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This ambitious volume explores the politics of recent changes in corporate governance regulation and the transnational forces driving the process. Corporate governance has in the 1990s become a catchphrase of the global business community. The Enron collapse and other recent corporate scandals, as...

    Published July 29th 2010 by Routledge