scholarly journals Political Economy and Political Power: The American State and Finance in the Neoliberal Era – CORRIGENDUM

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-725
Author(s):  
Leo Panitch ◽  
Sam Gindin
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
American State

Introduction to Politics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Garner ◽  
Peter Ferdinand ◽  
Stephanie Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Political Obligation ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject

Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics provides an introduction to the subject. It covers both comparative politics and international relations, and contextualises this material with a wide range of international examples. The text takes a balanced approached to the subject, serving as a strong foundation for further study. The material is explored in an accessible way for introductory study, but takes an analytical approach which encourages more critical study and debate. Topics range from political power and authority to democracy, political obligation, freedom, justice, political parties, institutions and states, and global political economy

The Political Economy of Ethiopia from the Imperial Period to the Present

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-47
Author(s):  
Christopher Clapham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The State ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Imperial Period

Ethiopia’s political economy has historically been shaped by two key factors: the strength of the state, and the divergence between the sources of political power, concentrated in the northern highlands, and of economic power, concentrated in the southern and western regions incorporated in the late nineteenth century. These features were intensified under both imperial (1941–74) and revolutionary (1974–91) regimes that used a greatly strengthened state to promote development programmes that rested on the economic exploitation of politically marginalized regions. The EPRDF regime, in office since 1991, has addressed these problems through a federal system designed to rectify historical imbalances in political power, combined with a ‘developmental state’ that drew on East Asian models to generate rapid economic growth through incorporation into the global economy, while retaining a strong role for the state. Despite the impressive successes of this programme, problems derived from the historical structure of Ethiopian statehood inevitably remain.

The Concept of Interest

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert O. Hirschman
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Self ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Économie Politique ◽  
Personal Welfare ◽  
Analytical Power

This chapter showcases one of Hirschman's keynote lectures at the Collège de France. Hirschman had chosen the theme of an enlarged political economy (une économie politique élargie) to show that the idea—the concept—of “interest” had a history and had been the battleground for economists since the seventeenth century. It is linked, however, not just to the concept of the self, but to the idea of political power itself. Through this lecture, Hirschman attempts to show that personal welfare and statecraft were intertwined from the start. The effort to narrow the definition had threatened to separate behaviors and activities from one domain of life from that of another, and distinguish selfish or “interested” motivations from altruistic or “ethical” actions. This trend had drained the concept itself of its great analytical power.

Turquoise and Turboprops

Power Lines ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Needham
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
The West ◽  
Industrial Areas ◽  
Delicate Balance ◽  
Industrial Landscape ◽  
Double Digit ◽  
American Political Economy

This chapter examines how manufacturing passed agriculture as the Phoenix's largest economic sector. By 1960, manufacturing employed thirty thousand people and generated income of $435 million in Phoenix, compared to fewer than one thousand employees and income of $5 million twenty years earlier. It also remade the landscape. In Phoenix's industrial boom, the “clean” factories of companies located operations outside of Phoenix's traditional industrial areas south of downtown, creating a landscape labeled “industrial garden”—a booster dreamscape in which “neighborhoods and factories, workers and managers, homes and highways were to coexist in a delicate balance.” The demand of “clean” industries for ever increasing amounts of electricity grew at double-digit rates annually from 1950 to 1965. This demand represented not only the manifestations of a new industrial landscape, it also reflected the increasing political power of Phoenix's boosters and others like them across the West within the postwar American political economy.

The Political Economy of Imperfect Competition

1985 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amitai Etzioni
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Imperfect Competition ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Marginal Utility ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Power Base ◽  
The Stability

ABSTRACTEconomic actors command political power as well as economic power. It is used to the same effect to create monopolies and oligopolies. The two powers can be combined; e.g., aside from monopolies based only on economic power or only on government intervention, there are especially powerful monopolies that command both powers. The stability of the various power holders is related to the nature of their power base; pure economic power is particularly unstable. However, economic power can be more readily amassed than interventionist power, which violates norms, and has a sharply declining marginal utility. When the effects of interventionist power are added to those of economic power, economies such as America, which are often classified as quite competitive, turn out to be much less so.

Stagnating yields, unyielding profits: The political economy of Malaysia's rice sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie S. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Electoral Competition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Big Business ◽  
East Malaysia

Since the 2008 rice crisis, Malaysia's rice policies have been caught between government efforts to raise production and its support of the country's monopoly rice importer (Bernas). This article argues that when the politics behind the country's policies are revealed, the paradox is more apparent than real. The three principal policy components — gratifying Barisan Nasional's coalition partners in East Malaysia by expanding the acreage devoted to rice; buttressing the rural Malay economy by providing subsidies through a yield-enhancing programme; and relying on big business for financial support (Bernas's new owner is one of Malaysia's richest businessmen) — aim to serve the same end: to perpetuate UMNO's political power amid increasing electoral competition.

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