Cardinale, Ivano. 2024. Structural Political Economy: Rethinking the Economic Foundations of Conflict and Compromise. London: Routledge. [Book] (Forthcoming)

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The economy is key to conflicts and compromises – not because social groups or polities only pursue economic objectives, but because economic means are necessary for pursuing most objectives. The approach to political economy as the study of the ‘wealth of nations’, originating from the Physiocrats and Classics and rediscovered by structural economic analysis through the 20th century, offers a vantage point to understand the economy as providing material means to polities and groups therein.

But to understand the economic foundations of today’s conflicts and compromises, when production is being reconfigured by the restructuring of international trade and the ecological transition, the identities of social groups are being redefined, and collective objectives come under increasing scrutiny, we must generalise the structural approach. We especially need to overcome a key limitation: that it assumes at the outset the relevant social groups (e.g., classes defined by functional income) and the interests they pursue. This book proposes a more general approach that can be described as Structural Political Economy, which allows for a plurality of social groups, of particular and collective interests, and of conflicts and compromises.

The book is aimed at scholars in different traditions of political economy, structural economic analysis and the foundations of economic theory, and to all who are interested in the economic dimension of conflict and compromise.

Item Type:	Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute of Management Studies Institute of Management Studies > Structural Economic Analysis
Date:	2024
Item ID:	35354
Date Deposited:	11 Mar 2024 15:17
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2024 17:59
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/35354

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