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On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom: evidence from Ghana 关于非洲金融科技繁荣的矛盾:来自加纳的证据

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2225142

Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo

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New constitutionalism across the North-South divide—neoliberalization through development cooperation agreements 跨越南北分界线的新宪政——通过发展合作协议实现的新自由主义化

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-18 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2208369

Nina Glatzer, Manuel Neumann, F. Müller

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An illiberal economic order: commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion 一个不自由的经济秩序:承诺机制成为专制强制的工具

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2211280

Nikhil Kalyanpur

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Entangled chains of global value and wealth 全球价值和财富链纠缠在一起

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-08 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2220268

Jennifer Bair, S. Ponte, Leonard Seabrooke, Duncan Wigan

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Continuity or change? Platforms and the hybridization of neoliberal institutional contexts. 连续性还是变化？平台与新自由主义制度背景的混合

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-08 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2220088

Aleksandra Piletić

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Market-creating states: rethinking China’s high-speed rail development 创造市场的国家:重新思考中国的高铁发展

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-06-02 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2209914

Karl Yan

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The dysfunctional taboo: monetary financing at the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank 功能失调的禁忌:英国央行(Bank of England)、美联储(fed)和欧洲央行(ecb)的货币融资

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-05-24 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2205656

Will Bateman, Jens van ’t Klooster

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The contested terrain of global production: collective versus private labor governance on Guatemalan banana plantations 全球生产的竞争领域:危地马拉香蕉种植园的集体与私人劳工治理

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-05-19 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2200964

M. Anner

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Organizing for transformation: post-growth in International Political Economy 组织转型:国际政治经济学的后增长

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2208871

Jacob A. Hasselbalch, Matthias Kranke, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya

{"title":"Organizing for transformation: post-growth in International Political Economy","authors":"Jacob A. Hasselbalch, Matthias Kranke, Ekaterina Chertkovskaya","doi":"10.1080/09692290.2023.2208871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2208871","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The global political economy is organized around the pursuit of economic growth. Yet scholars of International Political Economy (IPE) have been surprisingly slow to address its wide-ranging implications and, thus, to advance debates about post-growth alternatives. The premise of the article is that for IPE to deepen its grasp of the escalation of contemporary socioecological crises both analytically and normatively, it needs to put the growth question front and center. To problematize the pursuit of economic growth from an IPE perspective, we bring together research on green growth, post-growth/degrowth, sustainability transitions and socioecological transformation. More specifically, we develop an analytical framework that revolves around four pathways of reorganization toward socioecological sustainability: (1) modification, (2) substitution, (3) conversion and (4) prefiguration. We use illustrative examples from the plastics and food sectors to show how the post-growth pathways of conversion and prefiguration could interact to trigger change for sustainability. Notably, our discussion reveals that conversion, which requires a strong state for developing post-growth institutions, is the least traveled pathway in both sectors. This insight points to a strategic priority for post-growth proponents and an urgent research agenda for IPE scholars.","PeriodicalId":48121,"journal":{"name":"Review of International Political Economy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44540315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Norm dynamics in a post-hegemonic world: multistakeholder global governance and the end of liberal international order 后霸权世界的规范动态:多利益相关者全球治理与自由国际秩序的终结

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Review of International Political Economy Pub Date : 2023-05-18 DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2213441

John Y. Taggart, K. Abraham

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