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• Half-title
• Copyright
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Boxes, Tables, Figures and Maps
• Preface to the Seventh Edition
• List of Abbreviations
• Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives
• 1. Theories of Global Political Economy
• Understanding the Global Political Economy
• The Economic Nationalist Perspective
• Key actors
• Key dynamics
• Conflict and cooperation
• Economic nationalism today
• The Liberal Perspective
• Key actors
• Key dynamics
• Conflict and cooperation
• Liberalism today
• The Critical Perspective
• Key actors
• Key dynamics
• Conflict and cooperation
• Critical theory today
• Contending Perspectives: A Summary
• Further Reading
• 2. International Political Economy and Its Methods
• Locating the Field
• Economics
• Political science
• Political economy
• International relations
• Methodological Issues
• Case studies and large n studies
• Rational choice
• Institutionalism
• Constructivism
• Trends in Contemporary GPE Theory
• Consolidation
• Integration
• Expansion
• Approach of the Book
• Further Reading
• Part 2: Evolution
• 3. Creating the First Global Economy: 1400–1800
• Prelude: The Fifteenth-Century World Economy
• The Middle East
• China
• India
• Africa
• The Americas
• Europe
• The First Global Economy
• Connecting and pillaging the Americas
• The triangular trade
• Asia–European ocean trade
• Conclusion
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Labour
• Gender
• Race
• Development
• Environment
• Knowledge
• Health
• Security
• Governance
• Further Reading
• 4. The Second Global Economy: 1800–1945
• The Industrial Revolution
• What was the Industrial Revolution?
• Why Britain? Why then?
• What did the others do?
• Pax Britannica
• The gold standard and capital flows
• Free trade
• Balance of power
• Renewed Imperialism
• War and Economic Disorder
• The world wars
• Interwar economic failure
• Conclusion
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Labour
• Gender
• Race
• Development
• Environment
• Ideas
• Health
• Security
• Governance
• Further Reading
• 5. The Accelerating Global Economy: 1945–2024
• Three Political Economies: 1945–89
• The US-led Western political economy
• The communist political economy
• The southern political economy
• A Third Global Economy: 1990–2024
• Technological change
• International organizations and governance
• Varieties of capitalism and state transformation
• Conclusion
• Trade
• Production
• Finance
• Labour
• Gender
• Race
• Development
• Environment
• Knowledge
• Health
• Security
• Governance
• Further Reading
• Part 3: Trade, Production and Finance
• 6. International Trade
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Free Trade and Protectionism
• Proponents of free trade
• Critics of free trade
• Major Developments
• Growth and protectionism
• Changing institutional arrangements
• Key Issues
• Developing country interests
• Trade and globalization
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 7. Transnational Production
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Explaining the Growth of TNCs
• Major Developments
• The globalization of production
• Changing organizational principles
• Key Issues
• Re-evaluating the benefits of FDI
• State–firm interactions
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 8. Global Credit System
• Definitions and Background
• Theoretical Perspectives: Financial Instability Hypothesis
• Major Developments
• Financial innovation
• Repeated crises
• Key Issues
• Global credit crisis
• Corporate and individual tax abuse
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 9. International Monetary System
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Mundell-Fleming Trinity
• Major Developments
• IMS: from fixed to floating and regional currencies
• Key Issues
• Future of the US dollar
• The European sovereign debt and euro crisis
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Part 4: Social Structures
• 10. Global Division of Labour
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Adam Smith and his Critics
• Major Developments
• Changes in the production process
• From the new international to the global division of labour
• Key Issues
• Global restructuring: the rise of China and India
• Inequality
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 11. Gender
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: GPE as if Gender Mattered
• Major Developments
• Women in the world economy: employment trends and prospects
• Gender and global public policy
• Key Issues
• Poverty and gender inequality
• Globalization of reproductive work
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 12. Race
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Postcolonialism and Racial Capitalism
• Major Developments
• Race and Western imperialism
• The postcolonial liberal international economic order and North–South relations
• Key Issues
• Migration, racism and the GPE
• Race, inequality and transnational surrogacy
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Part 5: Contemporary Challenges
• 13. Development
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives on Growth and Development
• Major Developments
• Development and national capitalism, 1947–81
• Development, neoliberalism and beyond, 1982–2024
• Key Issues
• The organization of development
• Debt and debt relief
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 14. Environment
• Definitions and Background
• Theoretical Perspectives: IPE and Environmental Studies
• IPE debates
• Environmental studies’ debates
• Major Developments
• Bringing the environment in
• Mainstreaming environmentalism
• Key Issues
• Climate change
• Sustainable development
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 15. Knowledge
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Ideas about Ideas
• Major Developments
• The information revolution and the information society
• The rise and stall of the Washington Consensus
• Key Issues
• Ideas, interests and the global financial crisis
• Blockchain utopias and AI dystopias
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 16. Health
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Social and Commercial Determinants of Health
• Major Developments
• Globalization of health
• Securitization of disease
• Key Issues
• Property rights and life (HIV/AIDS)
• Covid-19 and the global economy
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• 17. Security
• Definitions: Two Views of Security
• The traditional state-centric approach
• Human security
• Theoretical Perspectives: Integrating Security and Political Economy
• Major Developments
• The Cold War security structure
• The post-Cold War security structure
• Key Issues
• Economic statecraft and security
• Transnational crime and corporate espionage
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Part 6: Conclusion
• 18. Governing the Global Political Economy
• Definitions
• Theoretical Perspectives: Whither the State?
• Major Developments
• Proliferation of governance levels
• Proliferation of actors
• Rise of the BRICS
• Twenty-first-century Challenges
• Future of the liberal economic order
• Sustainability of the global economy
• Inequality and justice
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Bibliography
• Index
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