Review of International Political Economy
@RIPEJournal
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Academic #IPE journal. Editors: @hozic & Alison Johnston, @juanitaelias, @skostem, @ManuMoschella, Stefano Ponte (@AfricaBusPol), Kevin L. Young, Hongying Wang.
Joined May 2017
“Green Microfinancial Regimes” by @DanielaGabor and Braun leads RIPE Altmetric score for 2025. Check out the entire SI on Macrofinance and the Green Transformation edited by Leah Downey and @MkBlyth.
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Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria, by @CoburgerCarla
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The contemporary currency hierarchy is neither natural nor neutral: It’s an imperial construct. This paper traces the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperia...
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Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa, by @drelisagambino & @cosfranceschini
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The ‘rise of the South’, and particularly that of China, has promoted lively debates around the centrality of Southern firms in shaping the contours of twenty first century economic globalisation. ...
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Are dollars popular? The Fed’s currency swap arrangements and recipient governments’ popularity, by @_yumipark & @ShimSujeong
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The Federal Reserve (the Fed) has emerged as a global lender of last resort by providing currency swap arrangements (CSAs) to foreign central banks. While existing literature has explored the econo...
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The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance, by Vanessa Endrejat, @FabioBulfone & @avanderheide22
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This paper introduces the concept of financialised insurance through an analysis of the European insurance sector in the context of recent capitalist restructuring. It addresses a notable gap in th...
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How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine, by Luis Aue
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This article conceptualises how the political economy of interprofessional competition and compromises has sustained colonialist professional practices. When professions distinguish their work alon...
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Where the bondholders are: indexes, pension funds, and investor bases in emerging markets, by Ben Cormier
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The extent to which sovereign investor bases include domestic or foreign residents varies across Emerging Markets (EMs). Bondholder residency has significant implications, but why EM investor bases...
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Money as a fictitious commodity: making sense of the gold standard in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, by Indigo Carson
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Recent appraisals of Karl Polanyi’s account of the gold standard in The Great Transformation (The GT) have questioned the influence and contemporary relevance of his monetary thought for internatio...
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RT @b_reinsberg: Debating due diligence laws? My new @RIPEjournal paper /w Christoph Steinert offers crucial insights! Examining the French….
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Concerns have arisen that due diligence laws, which hold companies accountable for human rights abuses and environmental damage in their supply chains, will negatively impact firm performance. Crit...
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‘Downsize and distribute’ or ‘merge and monopolize’: a critique of corporate financialisation theories, by Niall Reddy
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A growing literature has explained the persistent gap between profit levels and subdued investment by pointing to shareholder value imperatives and the associated pressure to ‘downsize and distribu...
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Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers: Europe’s demand for LNG and the danger of stranded assets, by @js_ovadia
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Wealthy countries and capital markets have moved to end support of new fossil fuel projects in the Global South, while simultaneously encouraging the export of African liquid natural gas (LNG) to m...
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RT @MLundLarsen: NEW ARTICLE out in Review of International Political Economy @RIPEJournal: The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What Chin….
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Driven by the urgency of the climate crisis, political economists are debating how the state can best ensure financing for a green transition. Providing a conceptual scaffolding for discussing diff...
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Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @DanielaLai_ .
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Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...
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RT @IDanewid: I have a new piece in @RIPEJournal which is part of a forthcoming special issue on Raced Finance. Thanks to @IliasAlami @Vinc….
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Fantastic contributions from Henning Schmidtke, Omar Serrano Oswald, @KristenHopewell, Shahar Hameiri, Lee Jones, Johannes Petry, Yukyung Yeo, Yufan Huang, Deborah Brautigam, Yujun Zou, Lina Benabdallah, Jing Qian, James Vreeland, and Jianzhi (Jason) Zhao.
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Thrilled that we could publish RIPE 32:4 ahead of schedule &summer vacations, with another brilliant special issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance, ed. by Eugénia C. Heldt and Susan Park. Most articles are open access!
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Volume 32, Issue 4 of Review of International Political Economy
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Making Nairobi ‘open for business’: the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights, speculative governmentality, and corporate investments in the future at the (queer and economic) frontier, by @ph_dyke
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This article examines the speculative narratives about the future underpinning the economic case for LGBTQ+ rights in Nairobi. Through discursive and ethnographic analysis, I explore the economic c...
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Secular stagnation and climate change, by Matthew Soener
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There is increasing attention and debate about the capitalist ‘growth paradigm’ and climate change. Yet, frequently left out of these discussions is the medium to long-term decline in growth rates ...
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Liberal norms, colonial sediments: the case of OECD aid statistics, by Anna Khakee & Christa Callus
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Up until today, rules of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) allow colonial powers to count transfers to remaining overseas territories as official development assista...
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