Poverty Amidst Plenty: World Political Economy and Distributive Justice

ISBN-13: 9780367299484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str.

Edward Weisband

Opis

Edward Weisband's pioneering text is destined to transform the current teaching of world political economy at both the introductory and the advanced level

Spis treści

Statement of Purpose: Toward a Pedagogy -- Introduction -- The Political Economy of Development -- Preliminary Questions -- Inequality and Income: Measuring the Dimensions of Injustice -- Class, Capital, and Policy Strategies: Is Justice in Development Possible? -- The Political Economy of Uneven Development -- Core and Periphery: The History and Theory of Uneven Development -- The New Transnationalism: Toward a Political Economy of Transnational Modes of Production -- The Political Economy of States in the Liberal International Economic Order -- States and Distributive Justice: The Search for Grounds -- The Liberal International Economic Order and Distributive Justice -- Conclusion: The Morality of States and Cosmopolitan Justice

O autorze

Edward Weisband is a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Winner of numerous commendations, he was selected as the 1987 New York State Professor of the Year and was a gold medal finalist in the Professor of the Year national competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He was awarded the 1975 Christopher Society Literary Award for contribution to ethical discourse in American public life for his coauthored publication, Resignation in Protest.