Statecraft and the political economy of capitalism / Scott G. Nelson, Joel T. Shelton.
Nelson, Scott G., author.; Shelton, Joel T., author.
2022
HB501 .N45 2022
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Title Statecraft and the political economy of capitalism / Scott G. Nelson, Joel T. Shelton.
Author Nelson, Scott G., author.
ISBN 3031159713 electronic book
9783031159718 (electronic bk.)
9783031159701
3031159705
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15971-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-15971-8 doi
Call Number HB501 .N45 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.12/2
Summary Rising inequality, the advance of far-right populism, ecological and climatic catastrophe and the scourge of global pandemic disease these are among the defining crises of our time. Addressing the governing challenges posed by each requires a more expansive vision of the scope and possibilities of state action than political scientists and economists have furnished to date. In Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism political economists Scott G. Nelson and Joel T. Shelton examine several key social and political dynamics of advanced capitalism for insights into the fate of equality, community and solidarity. In chapters addressing divergent problems and spanning several centuries, statecraft is presented as a conceptual lens through which the art and practice of public action is continually rearticulated in response to the shifting economic, social and political conditions of a given epoch. The authors examine several consequential moments in the long tradition of political economy in relation to the governing predicaments of the present day, highlighting those predicaments that bear upon the well-being of all people, especially societys most vulnerable. The book thus reintroduces the creative and purposive aspects of governing to the study and practice of Political Economy, a field that has been too preoccupied with technical, institutional and procedural aspects of economic management. Framing problems of governing national and global economies in relation to the craft of the state means searching out continuities between capitalism's early promise and present peril. Scott G. Nelson is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. His most recent book (co-authored with Bradley S. Klein) is Citizenship After Trump: Democracy versus Authoritarianism in a Post-Pandemic Era (Routledge, 2022). Joel T. Shelton is Associate Professor of Political Science & Policy Studies at Elon University and Coordinator of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at Elon. He is the author of Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance: Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-author of Research and Writing in International Relations, 3rd ed (Routledge, 2020). .
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Series International political economy series.
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Intro
Preface
References
Acknowledgments
Praise for Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism
Contents
1 Reintroducing Statecraft
References
2 The Ambitions of Government: Statecraft in Historical Perspective
On the Origins of Statecraft
Order and Legitimacy in Early Modern Statecraft
Modern Statecraft and the Emergence of "The Economy"
The Post-War Revival of Statecraft
Neoliberal Statecraft
The Problem of Securitization
Reviving Statecraft
References
3 The Public Purpose of Political Economy
The "Awkward Problem" of Power

The Contingencies of Countervailence
Political Economy and the Pathologies of Political Life
Reconstituting the Public Purpose
References
4 National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and Development
Economic Statecraft as Knowledge of Particulars
The Sources of Productive Power
Lessons for Statecraft
Toward "A Complete National Life"
Developmental Futures
Is Globalization to Blame?
References
5 The Delicate Order of Liberalism
The Pathologies of Economism
The Delicate Organization of Liberalism
The Decay of the Public Trust

Deadlock and the Lure of Fascism
Contemporary Perils
The Task Ahead
References
6 The Transgressive Economy
The Accursed Share
The Framework of the General Economy
Myths of Sovereignty
The Lure of Fascism
Great Transformations?
The Digital Economy
Governing in an Age of Excess
References
7 Democracy as Statecraft
Does Statecraft Have a Future?
Modern States, Modern Citizens
From Governing to Governance: Wither the Demos?
Democratic Potentials, Democratic Perils
Statecraft as Citizencraft
References
8 Conclusion: An Agenda for Citizenship

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