Rethinking the relationship of states and financial markets after the 2008 global credit crisis
Journal: Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University)
Year: 2011

This dissertation contends that an alternate conceptual framework—the "marketplace framework"—explains more clearly the nature of International Political Economy (IPE) as a field of study and as a set of global conditions and activities. It critiques the failure of the dominant IPE framework—what I call the "tension framework"—to effectively explain the process of evolution that led to the 2008 global credit crisis and the political reactions to the crisis itself. It argues that in order to unde