States and markets
In: Bloomsbury revelations series
In: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Prologue: Some Desert Island Stories -- PART I - The Study of International Political Economy -- Chapter 1 The Conflict of Values and Theories -- Theory in social science -- The nature of international relations -- Chapter 2 Power in The World Economy -- Structural and relational power -- Four sources of structural power -- Some examples -- Limits of social science -- A network of bargains -- PART II - Structures of Power in the World Economy -- Chapter 3 The Security Structure -- Defining security -- Security in a system of states -- Are some states more peaceful? -- Industrialization and war -- Patterns of balance and security maps -- Prospects -- Chapter 4 The Production Structure -- Why Western Europe? -- Numbers matter -- The Asian experience -- The American century -- The 'multinational' and its theorists9 -- Assessing production -- Tax issues -- Chapter 5 The Financial Structure -- Credit creation -- Primitive and developed financial structures -- The puzzle of the nineteenth century -- The golden years? -- The paper dollar standard -- Current problems -- Chapter 6 The Knowledge Structure -- Defining a knowledge structure -- Medieval Christendom -- The scientific state -- Belief systems -- Indications of change -- Interactions of structures -- Some political implications -- Conclusions -- PART III - The Secondary Power Structures -- Chapter 7 - Transport Systems: Sea and Air -- Sea transport: The nature of the market -- Authorities -- Risk -- Pollution problems -- Air transport -- Authority and the market -- Transport and trade -- Chapter 8 - Trade -- Facts -- Fast growth -- Uneven growth -- Changing content -- Unequal participation -- No standard rules -- Terms of trade -- Theories of trade -- International organizations