Comparative political economy: states, markets and global capitalism
Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements for the First Edition -- Acknowledgements for the Second Edition -- How to Use This Book -- 1: Introduction: The Focus and Rationale of the Book -- History never ends … -- The aims of the book -- What is political economy? -- What is comparative political economy? -- Comparative political economy and the global dimension -- The rationale, organization and focus of the book -- 2: Comparative Political Economy: Lineages from Classical Political Economy, Linkages to International Political Economy -- Introduction -- Disciplinary politics and classical political economy -- Why is the history of political economy so important for contemporary comparative political economy? -- Comparative political economy: the core insights -- Core insight 1: state/market relations -- Core insight 2: markets as politically constructed, not natural -- Core insight 3: economy embedded in social and political context -- Core insight 4: capitalism as a dynamic, not static, social order -- Comparative political economy: linkages to international political economy -- Conclusion: conceptions of the market, disciplinarity and political economy -- 3: Capitalism and Classical Political Economy -- Introduction -- Classical political economy and capitalism -- Adam Smith and classical liberal political economy -- The conception of capitalist market relations -- The individual and society -- The international order -- Economic nationalist political economy -- The conception of the capitalist market -- The individual and society -- The international order -- Marxian political economy -- Conception of the capitalist market -- The individual and society within the capitalist social order -- The international order -- Conclusion.