Global Political Economy - O'Brien, Robert / Williams, Marc
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This popular and successful text provides a comprehensive introduction to the global political economy of today, set in a broad historical context. It introduces an unusually wide range of theoretical approaches and highlights how useful they are in tackling key issues - from trade, production and finance to social divisions, development and the environment. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout with additional chapters on gender, on ideas, and on key current issues and debates.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Understanding the Global Political Economy
PART I:…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
This popular and successful text provides a comprehensive introduction to the global political economy of today, set in a broad historical context. It introduces an unusually wide range of theoretical approaches and highlights how useful they are in tackling key issues - from trade, production and finance to social divisions, development and the environment. The second edition has been revised and updated throughout with additional chapters on gender, on ideas, and on key current issues and debates.

Table of contents:
Introduction: Understanding the Global Political Economy
PART I: EVOLUTION
Forging a World Economy 1400-1800
Industrial Revolution, Pax Britannica and Imperialism
The Twentieth Century: World Wars and the Post-1945 Order
PART II: DYNAMICS
International Trade
Transnational Production
The Global Financial System
Global Division of Labour
Gender
Economic Development
Global Environmental Change
Ideas
Governing the Global Political Economy
Conclusion: Issues in Contemporary GPE Theory
Autorenporträt
ROBERT O'BRIEN holds the LIUNA/ Enrico Henry Mancinelli Professorship in Global Labour Issues at McMaster University, Canada. He has published books and articles on the subjects of international trade, global labour issues, social movements and international economic institutions, global social policy.

MARC WILLIAMS is Professor of International Relations, University of New South Wales, Australia. His research focuses on global environmental politics, social movements, and global economic governance.