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Towards the progressive network-system: a normative theory of organisation to achieve disruption in times of crisis 迈向渐进式网络系统：危机时期实现中断的规范性组织理论

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000008

Marco Guglielmo, Bradley Ward

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Beyond sovereignty as authority: the multiplicity of European approaches to digital sovereignty 超越作为权威的主权：欧洲处理数字主权的多种方法

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000007

Daniel Lambach, Linda Monsees

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Beyond sovereignty as authority: the multiplicity of European approaches to digital sovereignty 超越作为权威的主权：欧洲处理数字主权的多种方法

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2024d000000007

Daniel Lambach, Linda Monsees

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Technological sovereignty in Germany: techno-industrial policy as a form of economic statecraft? 德国的技术主权：作为一种经济国策的技术工业政策？

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2023d000000005

Philipp Staab, Dominik Piétron, Marc Pirogan

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Futurity-led platform capitalism: the regulation of inclusive insurtech platforms 未来主导的平台资本主义：对包容性保险科技平台的监管

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2023d000000003

Yannick Perticone

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Towards a post-neoliberal mode of European economic integration? A regulationist critique of the failing forward-approach 走向后新自由主义的欧洲经济一体化模式？对失败的前瞻性方法的监管主义批判

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2023d000000004

Etienne Schneider, Thomas Sablowski, Felix Syrovatka

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The people’s budget? How business interests and fiscal constraints shaped the economic policies of the Italian populist government 人民的预算?商业利益和财政约束是如何影响意大利民粹主义政府的经济政策的

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2023d000000002

Gemma Gasseau, Vincenzo Maccarrone

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Anxious solidarities against the mental health crisis: connecting personal struggles to wider social and economic injustices 焦虑地团结一致应对精神健康危机:将个人斗争与更广泛的社会和经济不公正联系起来

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1332/26352257y2023d000000001

A.T. Kingsmith

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The revenge of multiplicity: Chinese capitalism under systemic competition 多样性的复仇:制度竞争下的中国资本主义

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1332/lxgv9552

Steven Rolf

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A system of mutual dependence and antagonism: exploring the potential of uneven and combined development within Global Political Economy 相互依赖与对抗的体系:探索全球政治经济不平衡与综合发展的潜力

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-08-11 DOI: 10.1332/dhsy9000

Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Julian Germann, Steven Rolf

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