Studies in Political Economy 

About: Studies in Political Economy is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Capitalism. It has an ISSN identifier of 0707-8552. Over the lifetime, 791 publications have been published receiving 10765 citations.

Neo-liberalism: policy, ideology, governmentality

Abstract: The term ''neo-liberalism'' denotes new forms of political-economic governance premised on the extension of market relationships. In critical social science literatures, the term has usurped labels referring to specific political projects (Thatcherism, Regeanomics, Rogernomics), and is more widely used than its counterparts including, for example, economic rationalism, monetarism, neo-conservatism, managerialism and contractualism.

Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State? Preliminary Remarks on Post-Fordist Political Economy

Abstract: The Keynesian welfare state regimes that emerged during the long postwar boom are widely held to be in terminal decline but there is far less agreement upon the nature of the successor to such regimes. This is too large a topic to be covered in any detail here. Instead I will advance three general and somewhat speculative claims about current changes. First, a tendential shift is under way from the Keynesian welfare state (wherever it came to be established) to the Schumpeterian workfare state; second, national states in advanced capitalist economies are subject to an admittedly uneven three-way 'hollowing out'; and third, both tendencies are related to the transition in western economies from Fordism to post-Fordism. Although clearly linked to the same overall economic dynamic in the third claim, the first two claims can nonetheless be considered independently from each other. Conversely, all three claims could also be condensed into the single audacious aphorism that a 'hollowed-out' Schumpeterian workfare state provides the best possible political shell for post-Fordism. The basic assumptions and ideas involved in all four claims are summarized in this paper's first section. Further sections then contextualize the tendential shifts themselves, outline the mechanisms generating them, and outline three ideal-typical variant forms of the emerging regime. This theoretical work will also help to make the initial claims more concrete and indicate how they might be utilized in further research.

Moral Economy and Political Economy

Abstract: With the decline of socialism in thought and practice, radical political economy has recently been at a low ebb. Yet given the persistence of economic problems and their effect on the quality of life, the need for a radical political economy has certainly not diminished. If it is to regenerate, it needs to return to basics and re-think its critical standpoints. At present, these are typically unexamined and underdeveloped, tending to be limited to matters of equality and exploitation with little notion of economic responsibilities or sense of the public good.

A Political Ecology of Water Privatization

Abstract: Private-sector participation in the financing, construction and management of water supply infrastructure has increased significantly over the past decade. In GECD countries, this trend has been particularly evident in the United States, England and Wales. In Canada, several municipalities-including Goderich, Halifax, Hamilton-Wentworth, and Moncton-have initiated a variety of projects (such as management contracts or outsourcing of water treatment plants) with the private sector.

Gender and Reproduction: Or, Babies and the State

Abstract: The capitalist state's contribution to the oppression of women has been relatively under analysed in recent Marxist feminists' debates about the material bases of gender oppression. Nevertheless, Marxist feminists can not escape a concern with the capitalist state which obviously continues to have a major effect on the structure of the family and gender relations.