John Ravenhill (ed ), Global Political Economy (Oxford, 6th edition, 2020), and Jeffry Frieden, David Lake, and J Lawrence Broz (eds ), International Political Economy (W W Norton, 6th edition, 2017) Most of the additional reading consists of journal articles which you can obtain online from the LSE’s Electronic Library
The Relation between the Real Economy and the Financial Market The capitalist economy is driven by the accumulation of surplus value at an increasing rate To achieve this, there is a perpetual struggle for boosting competitiveness of the economy and increasing rate of profit
use of the term political economy lapsed in mainstream economics Classical political economy engaged with broader interests than what we would now refer to as economics In Book V of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was engaged in the study of political economy in the narrower sense of the modern lecture
international political economy [online] London: LSE Research Online for contemporary political economy 2 This paper makes three main arguments First, it
Social Informatics and the Political Economy of Communications By Professor Robin Mansell Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet London School of Economics and Political Science 23 July 2004 Submitted to Special Issue of Information Technology and People, Festschrift in honour of Rob Kling’s legacy, forthcoming 2004
for better integrating East Asian political economies in the comparative literature of ad-vanced political economies Our analysis of the Korean case also calls for a greater promi-nence of education policies in the dominant institutionalist political economy literature with its limited focus on skills formation in the workplace