This article responds to Staricco’s critique of cultural political economy (CPE) for being inherently constructivist because of its emphasis on the ontologically foundational role of semiosis (senseand meaning-making) in social life. Staricco recommends the Amsterdam School of transnational historical materialism as a more immediately productive and insightful approach to developing a regulatio...

America’s securities markets constitute a central distinguishing feature of its brand of capitalism. What are their political origins? In contrast to arguments which point to business owners as determining the institutional foundations of America’s political economy, this paper argues that farmers played a leading role. Indeed, the rules and regulations governing U.S. securities markets were cr...

This article examines the implications of the Euro crisis for theories of political economy associated with ‘varieties of capitalism’ considering how those theories help explain the origins of the crisis and how developments during it mandate revisions in such theories. Efforts to understand the crisis have extended these theories in four directions. They have inspired an emerging literature on...

Simon Reich holds appointments as a Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. In fall 1997 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute. His publications include The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective and The German Predicament: Memory and Power in the New Eur...

In this paper we critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy emphasizing the questions opened by the recent …nancial crisis. We begin with a discussion of the issue of rules versus discretion. We then examine the independence of Central banks both in normal times and in crisis and in relation to the political cycles. Finally we address international institutiona...

In this paper, we construct a political-economy model of international noncooperative environmental policymaking, and examine the strategic incentives for voters to elect an environmental policymaker in open economies. We show that under several circumstances, citizens have an incentive to deliberately vote for a candidate whose environmental preferences differ from their own. Further, the stra...

A-1: Are the theoretical approaches applied to understanding the fields of international conflict and international political economy completely distinct from one another or do these fields apply the same theoretical approaches to different questions? Please discuss in your answer why you think these two fields are either theoretically distinct or similar and be sure to ground your answer in at...

The emerging model for development assistance in the coming decades is based on supporting the full integration of developing countries into the global economy by correcting for failures in product and factor capital markets. ‘Aid’ as such would be confined to humanitarian emergencies and activities with large international externalities. However, without free labour movement, the logical impli...