Part I: Foundations: Reframing Neutrality in International Political Economy (IPE) Overview 1. The Crisis of Economic Neutrality 2. Conceptualising Neutrality 3. Operationalising Ontological Containment Theory through the Ontological Realism Score (ORS) Part II: Genealogical Foundations of Monetary Abstraction (Selective) 4. The Emergence of Administrative Abstraction 5. Genealogy of Manufactured Scarcity through the OCT Architecture 6. Institutionalised Abstraction and Governance Insulation 7. Globalisation of Monetary Ontological Asymmetry 8. Manufacturing Consent: Epistemic Stabilisation in Fiat Monetary Systems Part III: Historical Diagnosis of Non-Neutrality 9. Structural Entanglement in Historical Benchmark Cases: Sweden, Switzerland, and the Limits of Epistemic Neutrality 10. Bretton Woods and the Institutionalisation of Fiat Hierarchy Part IV: Focused Applications: BRICS as Primary Test Case 11. BRICS as Bounded Empirical Illustration 12. Assessing Structural Neutrality: A BRICS System-Level Assessment Part V: So What? Implications and Selective Applications 13. Conditions for Structural Transformation and Ontological Coherence 14. Cross-Domain Diagnostics of System-Level Neutrality (OCT-ORS Applications) 15. Conclusion
Biography
Lillie Ferriol Prat is the Director of Ontological Strategy and Marketing at the BRICS Research Institute, Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
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