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The uneven and combined development of racial capitalism and South Africa’s changing race-class articulations 种族资本主义的不平衡和混合发展以及南非不断变化的种族阶级表述

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-08-02 DOI: 10.1332/nsvg2581

S. Ashman

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The revolution of values and the crisis of liberal democracy 价值观的革命和自由民主的危机

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1332/onrf8537

Ben Whitham

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The making of the Single European Act reconsidered: IPE, UCD and the challenge of supranationalism 《单一欧洲法案》的制定:国际政治经济学、UCD与超国家主义的挑战

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-07-21 DOI: 10.1332/qloc4375

Judith Koch

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The centrality of disablement subjectivation to the reproduction of capitalist social relations: considerations for Critical and Global Political Economy 剥夺主体化对资本主义社会关系再生产的中心作用:对批判和全球政治经济学的思考

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-07-12 DOI: 10.1332/giej7083

I. Chis

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Looking at the production chains from the uneven and combined development perspective: the Egyptian Qualified Industrial Zones Agreement 从不平衡和综合发展的角度看生产链:埃及合格工业区协议

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-29 DOI: 10.1332/qksn5317

Ulaş Taştekin

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State capacity and the unplanned decline of Venezuela’s petro-state: reflections for sustainable transitions and the Green New Deal 国家产能和委内瑞拉石油国家的意外衰落:对可持续转型和绿色新政的反思

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-28 DOI: 10.1332/dcse5063

Antulio Rosales, P. Clark

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Capitalist diversity or unevenness? Uneven and combined development, growth models and the crisis in the eurozone periphery 资本主义的多样性还是不均衡?不平衡和混合的发展、增长模式和欧元区外围国家的危机

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI: 10.1332/oxfn9290

Neil Dooley

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Wrestling with unevenness: Sino-American rivalry, state strategy and the reformation of German capitalism 与不平衡的角力:中美竞争、国家战略与德国资本主义的改革

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-01-27 DOI: 10.1332/wdgh8153

Julian Germann

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The spiral of state capitalism: labour transformations or the ‘whip of external necessity’? 国家资本主义的螺旋:劳动转型还是“外部需求的鞭子”?

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-11-25 DOI: 10.1332/xbqc5746

Ilias Alami

{"title":"The spiral of state capitalism: labour transformations or the ‘whip of external necessity’?","authors":"Ilias Alami","doi":"10.1332/xbqc5746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/xbqc5746","url":null,"abstract":"This article opens a conversation between uneven and combined development (U&CD) and state capitalism studies. It reflects on the potential of U&CD to answer the following questions: why has there been an aggregate expansion of the state’s role as promoter, supervisor and owner of capital across the world capitalist economy since the turn of the millennium, and why has this taken an uneven and combined form? I argue that U&CD as an evolving research programme holds great potential in creatively expanding the study of state capitalism and its multi-scalar geographies. It is particularly well positioned to help us elucidate the multilinear and interactive character of present-day state capitalism. U&CD’s heuristics of ‘societal multiplicity’, ‘combination’ and ‘hybridisation’ can help us trace the combinatorial dynamics which result in the cumulative expansion of state prerogatives and their cascading impacts across policy realms and geographic space. Yet the causal mechanisms identified by U&CD (the ‘whip of external necessity’, ‘the privilege of historic backwardness’ and ‘the simultaneity of the non-simultaneous’) are unable to grasp contemporary state capitalist transformations in their historical and geographical fullness, notably due to a tendency to misread spatial unevenness as temporal dislocation. Theorising state capitalism requires that we examine the role of multiple and interacting capitalist states in politically mediating historically determinate transformations in the capitalist labour process, and their ramifications in terms of the temporal and geographical dynamics of value production and circulation. Thus, looking at U&CD from the perspective of the new state capitalism reveals both its analytical strengths and limitations for GPE.","PeriodicalId":302702,"journal":{"name":"Global Political Economy","volume":"3 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131361598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Problems in protections for working data subjects: the social relations of data production 工作数据主体的保护问题:数据生产的社会关系

Global Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-11-10 DOI: 10.1332/ukge7444

Phoebe V. Moore

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