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  • The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance

    by Ben Clift ...
    The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance is about the politics of economic ideas and technocratic economic governance. It is also a book about the changing political economy of British capitalism's relationship to the European and wider global economies. It focuses on the creation in 2010 and subsequent operation of the independent body created to ... Read more

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  • Comparative Political Economy

    States, Markets and Global Capitalism

    by Ben Clift ...
    This is a book about how 21st-century capitalism really works. Modern economics strips away social, historical, and political context from analysis of 'the economic', but the economy is far too important to leave exclusively to the economists. Comparative Political Economy (CPE) is a much broader, richer intellectual undertaking which 're-embeds' the analysis of the economic within the social and ... Read more

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  • The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

    by Ben Clift ...
    This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone crisis. It updates and refines our understanding of how the IMF seeks to wield ideational power ... Read more

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  • Economic Patriotism in Open Economies

    Edited by Ben Clift, Cornelia Woll ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that governments continuously seek to steer their economies rather than leaving them to free markets. Despite the ambitions of international economic cooperation, such interventionism is decidedly local. Some politicians even proudly evoke "economic patriotism" to justify their choices.This volume links such populism to a specific set of tensions – the ... Read more

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    Series series Finance Matters
    Through the interrogation of the social foundations of global finance, Tim Sinclair revealed the power relations within the global political economy. His unique and pioneering perspective examines the role of private authority, the institutional complexities of global financial markets and ideational realm and intersubjective processes involved in constructing economic rectitude to offer a fresh ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    New Directions in Development Economics is divided into two parts. The first half considers the dilemma of growth with special reference to its environmental cost. The second half focuses on the role of the state in the context of the growing dominance of the free market argument. The contributors include Paul Collier, Partha Dasgupta, Ronald Findlay and Deepak Lal. ... Read more

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  • The Group of Seven

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    by Andrew Baker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this co-operation for US power and the abilities of the other six states to exercise leadership? What role do the G7 play in global financial governance? How much authority do they possess and how is that ... Read more

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    In an era of remarkable wealth idolatry, Tom Malleson investigates the ethical justifications of wealth inequality, taking the radical position that we should abolish the billionaires. Stark inequality is a problem the world over, but it has been worsening over the past thirty years, particularly in rich, economically developed countries. To acquire the same amount of wealth as Elon Musk, the ... Read more

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  • Clinton and Blair

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    by Flavio Romano ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    The former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and, at the time of publication, still current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair have described their style of government as a ‘Third Way’. In this important and timely book, Flavio Romano identifies and clarifies the economic implications of this particular approach to public governance.Testing the validity of President ... Read more

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  • Fiscal and Monetary Policies in Developing Countries

    State, Citizenship and Transformation

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The COVID-19 crisis has fractured the pre-existing structural rigidities and institutional fragilities in the economies of developing countries more than ever, necessitating a rethinking of fiscal and monetary policies, the main vehicles for relief, recovery and reconstruction.This book examines the barriers to transformation in developing countries in the wake of the pandemic and analyses the ... Read more

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