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TY - BOOK
T1 - Towards a cultural political economy
T2 - putting culture in its place in political economy
AU - Sum, Ngai-Ling
AU - Jessop, Bob
PY - 2013/11/29
Y1 - 2013/11/29
N2 - Some economists began to take a cultural turn in the 1980s and 1990s and the discursive and symbolic nature of all economic activities is now acknowledged in several disciplines. Economic sociologists have long been interested in the embedding of economic activities in wider social relations and institutions. This book offers a critique of both trends. It argues for a distinctive ‘cultural political economy’ that combines critical semiotic analysis and a rigorous critique of political economy that draws on institutional and evolutionary insights from heterodox economics. It then applies this new approach to issues such as economic and political imaginaries, differential accumulation, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes, knowledge-based economies and intellectual property, competitiveness as a material force and a knowledge brand, corporate social responsibility, crisis imaginaries and the rise of the BRIC economies.
AB - Some economists began to take a cultural turn in the 1980s and 1990s and the discursive and symbolic nature of all economic activities is now acknowledged in several disciplines. Economic sociologists have long been interested in the embedding of economic activities in wider social relations and institutions. This book offers a critique of both trends. It argues for a distinctive ‘cultural political economy’ that combines critical semiotic analysis and a rigorous critique of political economy that draws on institutional and evolutionary insights from heterodox economics. It then applies this new approach to issues such as economic and political imaginaries, differential accumulation, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes, knowledge-based economies and intellectual property, competitiveness as a material force and a knowledge brand, corporate social responsibility, crisis imaginaries and the rise of the BRIC economies.
KW - cultural political economy
KW - China
KW - IPR
KW - money
KW - institutionalism
KW - historical semantics
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - regulation approach
KW - capitalism
KW - crisis
KW - contradiction
KW - spatio-temporal fix
KW - institutional fix
KW - knowledge-based economy
KW - finance-dominated accumulation
KW - Wal-Martization
KW - BRIC economies
M3 - Book
SN - 9781845420369
BT - Towards a cultural political economy
PB - Edward Elgar
CY - Cheltenham
ER -