The International Political Economy of Risk
Subtitle: Rationalism, Calculation and Power
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781351146326
Subjects: International economic relations; Risk; Risk management; Capital investments; Decision making; Commercial treaties; Power (Social sciences); Rationalism; Risk Management; Risque; Gestion du risque; Investissements de capitaux; Prise de décision; Accords commerciaux; Pouvoir (Sciences sociales); Rationalisme; Rationalism (philosophy)
Description: "The discipline of international political economy faces a number of critical challenges at present, as it seeks to incorporate a number of relatively new issues, one of these being 'risk'. This captivating and enlightening study redresses the neglect of 'risk' in this field by focusing on objectivist rationalism. Highlighting some of the calculative practices rationalism makes possible, it demonstrates the deeply political nature of supposedly value-neutral technical pursuits such as accounting, auditing, the practice of statistics, sampling, and credit rating. All these practices are implicated in modernist forms of power and governance. The volume draws on work from various disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political economy, and philosophy, to explain the apparent unravelling of the rationalist quest for more reliable forms of knowledge. It is highly suitable for courses on international relations/international political economy."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Part, One Pre-Modernist Precursors and Modernist Practices --; title: chapter Introduction  -- Robert Deuchars; title: chapter 1 Narratives of Risk: Fortuna and Virtù  -- Robert Deuchars; title: chapter 2 The Emergence of Statistical Knowledge  -- Robert Deuchars; title: chapter 3 Governance and Risk  -- Robert Deuchars; title: part, Two Modernity as a Problem --; title: chapter 4 Some Theoretical Observations  -- Robert Deuchars; title: part, Three Modernist Attempts at Problem-Solving --; title: chapter 5 Reading the IMF  -- Robert Deuchars; title: chapter 6 Accounting and the Use of Normalising, Disciplinary Power  -- Robert Deuchars; title: chapter 7 Committing States to a Multilateral Agreement on Investment  -- Robert Deuchars; title: part, Four Metamodernist Attempts at Contextualising Risk --; title: chapter 8 Contextualising Risk?  -- Robert Deuchars; title: chapter Conclusion --; title: An International Political Economy of Risk -- Robert Deuchars.