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RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Series Editor: Jacqueline Best, Ian Bruff, Paul Langley, Anna Leander

The RIPE Series in Global Political Economy is a new forum for book-length contributions to current debates in IPE, for both specialists and a more general audience. The series will cover central topics in IPE as well as present innovative analyses of emerging issues in the global political economy. It aims for a broad range of perspectives in terms of theoretical orientation, geographic focus, and authors' country or region of origin, and to:

  • present books that transcend state-centred analysis and discourse
  • focus on the transnational/global character of the world political economy
  • provide relatively short, books which are designed to make key areas in IPE accessible to upper level under-graduate/graduate students and non-specialist audiences
  • publish major new contributions to the IPE literature for IPE specialists.

New and Published Books

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  1. The Making of Modern Finance

    Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard

    By Samuel Knafo

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    The Making of Modern Finance is a path-breaking study of the construction of liberal financial governance and demonstrates how complex forms of control by the state profoundly transformed the nature of modern finance. Challenging dominant theoretical conceptions of liberal financial governance in...

    Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Transnational Financial Associations and the Governance of Global Finance

    Assembling Wealth and Power

    By Heather McKeen-Edwards, Tony Porter

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    The role of business in global governance is now widely recognized, but exploration of its role in global financial governance has been more haphazard than systematic. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the role of transnational financial associations (TFAs) in the organization...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge

  3. Gender and Global Restructuring

    Sightings, Sites and Resistances

    Edited by Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Gender and Global Restructuring

    Sightings, Sites and Resistances, 2nd Edition

    Edited by Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context. Divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances,...

    Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge

  5. Cultural Political Economy

    Edited by Jacqueline Best, Matthew Paterson

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    The global political economy is inescapably cultural. Whether we talk about the economic dimensions of the "war on terror", the sub-prime crisis and its aftermath, or the ways in which new information technology has altered practices of production and consumption, it has become increasingly clear...

    Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge

  6. Savage Economics

    Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism

    By David L. Blaney, Naeem Inayatullah

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith, James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and Marx, it provides a systematic and fundamental...

    Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge

  7. The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights, 2nd ed

    The New Enclosures

    By Christopher May

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    The first edition established itself as one of the leading books to situate the issue of intellectual property within the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE). Since its publication, intellectual property has continued to rise up the global agenda, reflecting expanding interest in...

    Published September 14th 2009 by Routledge

  8. Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism

    The Politics of Resistance and Domination

    By Susanne Soederberg

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book...

    Published September 13th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Capital as Power

    A Study of Order and Creorder

    By Jonathan Nitzan, Shimshon Bichler

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But...

    Published May 21st 2009 by Routledge

  10. The Industrial Vagina

    The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade

    By Sheila Jeffreys

    Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

    The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies. The Industrial Vagina examines how prostitution and other aspects of the sex industry have...

    Published November 10th 2008 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value
    Edited by Tim Di Muzio
    To Be Published August 12th 2013
  2. Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population
    By Susanne Soederberg
    To Be Published September 29th 2013
  3. The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis
    By Bill Dunn
    To Be Published January 30th 2014
  4. Financial Regulation after the Global Financial Crises
    Edited by Tony Porter
    To Be Published February 27th 2014

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