Social Construction and the Logic of Money : Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership (Suny series in Global Politics)

Barkin, J. Samuel

State University of New York Press（2003/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 258 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791455821
• DDC分類 332

基本説明

Examines the nature of international economic leadership since the 17th century.

Full Description

Examines the nature of international economic leadership since the seventeenth century.

While other studies of international leadership have looked at a variety of measures to predict behavior, this book demonstrates that the key factor is international finance. J. Samuel Barkin uses an innovative blend of rationalist and constructivist methodologies, approaches to international political economy that normally exist in isolation from one another. Barkin argues that the level of a country's involvement in international finance specifically motivates it to lead. This is particularly relevant today, given the on-going discussions on how to respond to local and global financial crises. Barkin illustrates his theory with an episodic history of international monetary leadership over the last four centuries: Dutch leadership in the seventeenth century; British leadership in the nineteenth; the failure of leadership in the interwar era and Great Depression; and the role of the U.S. in the construction of an international economic infrastructure since World War II.

Contents

Acknowledgments


1. Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership


2. Social Construction and the Logic of Money


3. The Seventeenth Century and Dutch Leadership


4. The Nineteenth Century and British Leadership


5. The Interwar Period and the Great Depression


6. The Postwar Period: American Leadership?


7. Conclusions and Implications


Notes


References


Index