International Political Economy: Competing Analyses

Ralph Pettman
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Ralph Pettman: University of Melbourne, Australia

Chapter 1 in Handbook on International Political Economy, 2012, pp 3-17 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractInternational political economy (IPE) is a very diverse discipline. It covers a wide range of issues not only to do with the analytical discourses currently used to describe and explain (and prescribe policy for) its many and varied concerns, but also to do with the history of the discipline per se. The most significant aspect of contemporary IPE is the way it exemplifies the industrial/scientific revolution and its technological consequences. This revolution has made — and continues to make — radical changes to global production and consumption, finance and trade, management and work, overdevelopment and underdevelopment, global gender balances and imbalances, and environmental sustainability and distress…

Keywords: Political Economy; International Political Economy; Industrial Revolution; Liberal Capitalism; Markets; Production; Consumption; Trade; Finance; Globalization; Work; North/South; Gender; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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