Social Construction and the Logic of Money

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Social Construction and the Logic of Money
Financial Predominance and International Economic Leadership

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J. Samuel Barkin - Author

SUNY series in Global Politics

Price: $65.50
Hardcover - 258 pages

Release Date: January 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5581-5
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5581-4

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 258 pages

Release Date: January 2003

ISBN10: 0-7914-5582-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5582-1

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Summary

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.

“Barkin breathes new life into an old literature on declinism that is still relevant today. His bold attempt to compare across 'leaderships' is a worthy piece of scholarship in its own right. The key claim is that only a country dominant in finance will provide leadership, and then how it does so varies across time periods and structural contexts.” — Mark Blyth, Johns Hopkins University

J. Samuel Barkin is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and the coeditor (with George E. Shambaugh) of Anarchy and the Environment: The International Relations of Common Pool Resources, also published by SUNY Press.

Table of 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

Related Subjects

Economic History
Leadership Studies
Political Science

41156/41157(MR/KW/MC)

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