Overview
- Reintroduces the creative aspects of governing to the study and practice of Political Economy
- Presents statecraft as conceptual lens through which public action is continually rearticulated
- Frames the problems of governing national and global economies in relation to the craft of the state
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Rising inequality, the advance of far-right populism, ecological and climatic catastrophe and the scourge of global pandemic disease – these are among the defining crises of our time. Addressing the governing challenges posed by each requires a more expansive vision of the scope and possibilities of state action than political scientists and economists have furnished to date. In Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism political economists Scott G. Nelson and Joel T. Shelton examine several key social and political dynamics of advanced capitalism for insights into the fate of equality, community and solidarity. In chapters addressing divergent problems and spanning several centuries, statecraft is presented as a conceptual lens through which the art and practice of public action is continually rearticulated in response to the shifting economic, social and political conditions of a given epoch. The authors examine several consequential moments in the long tradition of political economy in relation to the governing predicaments of the present day, highlighting those predicaments that bear upon the well-being of all people, especially society’s most vulnerable. The book thus reintroduces the creative and purposive aspects of governing to the study and practice of Political Economy, a field that has been too preoccupied with technical, institutional and procedural aspects of economic management. Framing problems of governing national and global economies in relation to the craft of the state means searching out continuities between capitalism's early promise and present peril.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022).
Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism
Authors: Scott G. Nelson, Joel T. Shelton
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15971-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15970-1Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15973-2Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15971-8Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 190
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, International Relations Theory, International Security Studies