World Financial Orders
Subtitle: An Historical International Political Economy (Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780415255745
Subjects: Economic history; International finance; Political economy; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; Finance; International - Economics; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Business & Economics / Economics / International; Business & Economics / Finance; Business & Economics-International - Economics; Political Science-Public Policy - Economic Policy; International economic relatio; International economic relations
First sentence: Any attempt to apprehend contemporary world finance encounters not only significant structural changes that cannot easily be captured, but also the predominance of neo-liberal political economy in framing our knowledge of world finance.
Description: "In World Financial Orders, Langley challenges the predominance of neo-liberalism as a mode of knowledge about contemporary world finance, and claims that it neglects the social and political bases as well as the malign consequences of change. He looks to the field of International Political Economy (IPE) to construct an alternative mode of knowledge, one that critically restores society and politics. An 'historical' approach to IPF, is advanced that accounts for modern world finance since the seventeenth century as a succession of structurally distinct hierarchical social orders."

"Comparative historical inquiry across modern world finance reveals the unique character of the contemporary order. This order combines new forms of credit practices, decentralised and de-territorial spatiality, change in the very nature of financial power, unprecedented multilateral governance arrangements and contradictions that threaten its own future." "This book will be of interest to those working in the field of IPE and to those scholars, researchers and students from across the social sciences who seek to challenge the common-sense, neo-liberal explanation of contemporary world finance."--Jacket.