World Financial Orders
challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary
world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the
malign consequences of change. He looks to the field of International Political Economy
(IPE) to construct an alternative mode, one that critically restores society and politics.
An 'historical' approach to IPE is advanced that accounts for modern world finance since
the seventeenth century as a succession of structurally distinct hierarchical social
orders.
This book will be of
interest to those working in the field of IPE and to those scholars, researchers and
students from across the social sciences who seek to challenge the common-sense,
neo-liberal explanation of contemporary world finance.
Contents:
Part I: World Finance:
Towards an Historical IPE
1. An Historical
International Political Economy
2. An Historical IPE of
World Finance
Part II: Modern World
Financial Orders
3. From Amsterdam to London:
the Dutch and British World Financial Order
4. From London to New York:
the British and American World Financial Orders
Part III: The Contemporary
World Financial Order
5. From New York to 'Global
Finance'
6. The Making of the
Contemporary World Financial Order
7. Stability, Crises and
Governance in the Contemporary World Financial Order
Conclusion
192 pages