... Science in Relation to Practice” and delivered at his inauguration as Professor of Political Economy, revealed not a tension but a synthesis of scientific, political, and moral elements. In the first decade of the twentieth century, these elements were to publicly weave in and out of one another, leaving...

... by the accommodation of economics to comfort, could bring eventual economic discomfort. It also looks at inflation as a threat to the culture of contentment and the ways that a severe recession or depression could change the political economy of contentment. culture of contentment democracy self corrective capacity...

... in the early 2000s had a political economy blessed with very thick institutions that were expert-oriented and inclusive and that facilitated negotiation, consensus-making, and social partnerships. The chapter also describes the origins of the 2008 financial crisis and Denmark's response to it in the form...

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... to a “social Hell.” It then examines how Marx's nemesis, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, developed this trope in two texts with which Marx was well acquainted and how Marx appropriated the same trope for his own critique of political economy. Finally, it analyzes the notion that modernity amounts to “a social Hell...

...This chapter asks what is the “sovereign” in sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)? More specifically, how can we interpret the SWF phenomenon without succumbing to classical notions surrounding the territorial status of sovereignty and of political economy? The first section discusses sovereignty...

... of government in the American political economy. Seeing no short-term or even intermediate-term threats to vital U.S. interests, they were inclined to take measured steps to promote world stability and international order. They had a sense of the limits of American power and American interests, and they were...

... residents, neighbors, and the community in general. In the earlier review of the political economy of place, the chapter presents a theoretical rationale for anticipating high levels of emotion in debates about land use, and in the specific case of the Ethel Lawrence Homes the residents of Mount Laurel...

... among public capital, growth, and human welfare. It considers the following areas: heterogeneous infrastructure assets, the political economy of government spending allocation, excludable public goods, interactions between government debt and public capital accumulation in the presence of fiscal rules...

...This chapter showcases one of Hirschman's keynote lectures at the Collège de France. Hirschman had chosen the theme of an enlarged political economy (une économie politique élargie) to show that the idea—the concept—of “interest” had a history and had been the battleground...

.... This book shows how Fichte redefined the political economy of the Kantian ideal and extended it into a strategic analysis of the prospects for pacifying modern Europe. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented. democracy Fichte Johann Gottlieb Kant Immanuel perpetual peace Rousseau Jean...

... as institutional change in one area of a political economy can cause change in another, particularly when people believe that institutional complementarities have broken down and try to renew them. As such, this book argues that policy ideas have national origins and the way they are produced is largely determined...

...This postscript offers some suggestions for a research agenda for the future, including questions and propositions for scholars to consider regarding globalization and neoliberal diffusion, comparative political economy, and convergence theory. It asks whether the same conclusions can be obtained...

...This chapter argues that Adam Smith's moral theory and political economy confront human ambivalence about risk, by now a permanent feature of the human condition. Smith's analysis of individuals, groups, institutions, and policies leads him to find that human beings have a risk-loving side, which...

... crystallized under the banner of Marxism was in an important sense a putting together, as well as a radical transformation, of major elements of German idealist philosophy, especially Hegel; of the classical political economy that reaches back to Adam Smith; and of the radical French politics that unfolded...

...This chapter examines Henry Sidgwick's utilitarianism. It first considers Sidgwick's agnosticism before discussing his views on subjects ranging from hedonism and colonialism to poverty, common-sense morality, and politics and political economy. It then looks at some of Sidgwick's writings...

... that coexist within the same individual may achieve an efficient outcome by bargaining between themselves. Meanwhile, another class of arguments builds on the political economy critique. It states that while paternalism may help solve behavioral biases on paper, it ignores the actual working of governments...

... was and how it worked to supply urban dwellers; how and why access to food moved from the public to the private domain by the 1840s; how these two distinctive political economies shaped the physical and social environments of a booming city; and what the social consequences of deregulation were for residents...

...This chapter describes the crisis that unfolded in the late 2000s, and how it changed the world's political economy. The crisis had its origins, like many others, on the edges of capitalism, in the household sector and land, and in the most dramatically unbalanced parts of the system, before...

... of the Economic Commission for Latin America in Santiago de Chile that remained influential on the dependency school, the world system theorists, and the policy-making of the New Left. It questions the assumption that classical political economy was hegemonic in Latin America from independence until the Second...