International Political Economy

Structure of the course

Lecture 1: Introduction to IPE. 4

Lecture 2: Origins of the discipline and neo-Gramscian IPE. 4

Lecture 3: Global hegemony. 5

Lecture 4: IPE, development and underdevelopment 5

Lecture 5: Neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. 6

Lecture 6: Production, labour and global commodity chains. 7

Lecture 7: Money and finance. 8

Lecture 8: Financialisation and the 2007/8 crisis. 9

Lecture 9: RIP IPE? Decolonising IPE. 10

General readings

1. Cafruny, A., Talani, L.S. and Pozo Martin, G. eds. (2016) The Palgrave Handbook of International Political Economy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.


2. Dunn, B. (2008) Global Political Economy: A Marxist Critique. London: Pluto Press.


3. Fine, B. and Milonakis, D. (2008) From Political Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the Evolution of Economic Theory. Abingdon: Routledge.


4. Fine, B., and Milonakis, D. (2009) From Political Economy to Economics, and Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics. Abingdon: Routledge.


5. Fine, B. and Saad-Filho, A. (2016) Marx’s capital. London: Pluto Press. Available at https://deterritorialinvestigations.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/ben-fine-marxs-capital-6th-edition.pdf


6. Fine, B., Saad-Filho, A. and Boffo, M. (eds) (2012) The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.


7. Gill, S., and Law, D. (1988) The Global Political Economy: Perspectives, Problems and Policies. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf.


8. Gill, S. (2008) Power and Resistance in the New World Order (2nd Edition). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.


9. Harvey, D. (2003) A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford: OUP.


10. Hettne, B., ed. (1995) International Political Economy: Understanding Global Disorder. London: Zed Books.


11. Oatley, T. (2010) International Political Economy. New York: Longman.


12. Palan, R., ed. (2000) Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories. London: Routledge.


13. Paul, D. E. and Amawi, A. (2013) The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy. A Reader (third edition). New York: OUP. Available at http://www.sir.ac.ir/uploads/t.pdf


14. Pradella, L. (2014) Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings. London and New York: Routledge.


15. Ravenhill, J. ed. (2014) Global Political Economy. Oxford: OUP.