Benjamin J. Cohen

Money, Power, Authority

Cohen, Benjamin J. In Susan Strange and the Future of Global Political Economy: Power, Control and Transformation, edited by Randall Germain, 129-143. London: Routledge, 2016.

This chapter discusses the political economy of the global transformation. The share of American gross domestic product (GDP) in relation to global GDP had declined; the control of American corporations over key international markets remained high and was even growing. Strange argued that the global articulation of power was constituted by a complicated amalgam of public and the private authority. The superior innovative capacities of the firms, bolstered by government-sponsored military research, bestowed onto certain segments of the Americas economy, an unalloyed competitive advantage. The financial crisis began in the US financial system, even if it was aided and abetted by global forces and dynamics. The Carr suggests through his analysis of the foundations of mass society in the middle years of the twentieth century, when society exerts pressure on the operation of government, government in turn becomes much more involved in society, including the economy and its financial system.

Keywords: Money and Finance; Authority; Markets; Structural Power, Power; General Framework

Contributor(s): Benjamin J. Cohen and Editor: Randall Germain
Keywords: Money and Finance, Authority, Markets, Structural Power, Power, Strange-Influenced Works, 2010's
Source and Medium: Book Chapter

Year of Publication: 2016

The Transatlantic Divide: Why Are American And British IPE so Different?

Cohen, Benjamin J. Review of International Political Economy 14, no. 2 (2007): 197-219.

Based on a lecture presented to the inaugural meeting of the International Political Economy Society, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 17 November 2006.

Keywords: Political Economy; Theory

Contributor(s): Benjamin J. Cohen
Keywords: Political Economy, Theory, Strange-Influenced Works, 2000's
Source and Medium: Journal Article

Year of Publication: 2007

Money and Power in World Politics

Cohen, Benjamin J. In Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy, edited by Thomas Lawton, James Rosenau, Amy C. Verdun, 91-114. London: Routledge, 2000.

Keywords: Global governance; Money and Finance

Contributor(s): Benjamin J. Cohen, Editor: Thomas Lawton, Editor: James Rosenau and Editor: Amy C. Verdun
Keywords: Global governance, Money and Finance, Strange-Influenced Works, 2000's
Source and Medium: Book Chapter

Year of Publication: 2000

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