Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2022.2149719
Felix Windegger, C. Spash
ABSTRACT The hegemonic role of neoliberal ideas in today’s political-economic thought and practice has shaped the common way of thinking about freedom in Western society and more generally in the international community. This involves a negative, individualistic and market-centred interpretation of the concept. In contrast, visions of a degrowth society offer a radical alternative based on Cornelius Castoriadis’ notion of individual and social autonomy. We present both positions and explain their differences. We then follow this up by reporting on a questionnaire conducted at the 2018 Degrowth Conference in Malmö, Sweden. This empirical study of the degrowth movement probes the extent to which advocates actually follow the Castoriadian as opposed to the hegemonic neoliberal theory. While participants were found to hold positions consistent with the Castoriadian theory, we also identify contradictory and under-conceptualised aspects in their understanding of freedom. This points to the need for the degrowth movement to directly address its theoretical foundations, and elaborate on and strengthen its vision of freedom compatible with a future degrowth society in order to avoid potential co-option and becoming sub-hegemonic.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2221637
Shamel Azmeh
{"title":"‘Saving the WTO’: middle power insiders and joint statement initiatives at the World Trade Organisation","authors":"Shamel Azmeh","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2221637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2221637","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41945360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2230557
Jonas Gamso, A. Dimitrova
{"title":"Rewarding a friend: Does the World Bank direct non-commercial risk insurance to countries that support US foreign policy interests?","authors":"Jonas Gamso, A. Dimitrova","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2230557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2230557","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41688509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-02DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2217087
D. Sullivan, M. Moatsos, J. Hickel
It is widely believed that China ’ s socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress. This narrative relies on World Bank estimates of the share of people living on less than $1.90 a day (2011 PPP), which show a sharp decline from 88 per cent in 1981 to zero by 2018. However, the World Bank ’ s poverty line has been critiqued for ignoring variations in the actual cost of meeting basic needs. In this paper we review data published by the OECD on the share of people unable to a ff ord a subsistence basket. These estimates indicate that from 1981 to 1990, when most of China ’ s socialist provisioning systems were still in place, the country ’ s extreme poverty rate was on average only 5.6 per cent, substantially lower than in capitalist economies of comparable size and income at the time: 51 per cent in India, 36.5 per cent in Indonesia, and 29.5 per cent in Brazil. China ’ s comparatively strong performance is corroborated by data on other social indicators. Moreover, extreme poverty in China increased during the capitalist reforms of the 1990s, reaching a peak of 68 per cent, as privatisation in fl ated the prices of essential goods and thus de fl ated the incomes of the working classes. These results indicate that socialist provisioning policies can be e ff ective at preventing extreme poverty, while market reforms may threaten people ’ s ability to meet basic needs.
{"title":"Capitalist reforms and extreme poverty in China: unprecedented progress or income deflation?","authors":"D. Sullivan, M. Moatsos, J. Hickel","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2217087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2217087","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely believed that China ’ s socialist economy had relatively high rates of extreme poverty while the capitalist reforms of the 1980s and 1990s delivered rapid progress. This narrative relies on World Bank estimates of the share of people living on less than $1.90 a day (2011 PPP), which show a sharp decline from 88 per cent in 1981 to zero by 2018. However, the World Bank ’ s poverty line has been critiqued for ignoring variations in the actual cost of meeting basic needs. In this paper we review data published by the OECD on the share of people unable to a ff ord a subsistence basket. These estimates indicate that from 1981 to 1990, when most of China ’ s socialist provisioning systems were still in place, the country ’ s extreme poverty rate was on average only 5.6 per cent, substantially lower than in capitalist economies of comparable size and income at the time: 51 per cent in India, 36.5 per cent in Indonesia, and 29.5 per cent in Brazil. China ’ s comparatively strong performance is corroborated by data on other social indicators. Moreover, extreme poverty in China increased during the capitalist reforms of the 1990s, reaching a peak of 68 per cent, as privatisation in fl ated the prices of essential goods and thus de fl ated the incomes of the working classes. These results indicate that socialist provisioning policies can be e ff ective at preventing extreme poverty, while market reforms may threaten people ’ s ability to meet basic needs.","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49609008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2227577
Joan Torrent‐Sellens
{"title":"Homo digitalis: narrative for a new political economy of digital transformation and transition","authors":"Joan Torrent‐Sellens","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2227577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2227577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43982740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-23DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2227120
E. Wolff
{"title":"Diversity, solidarity and the construction of the ingroup among (post)colonial migrants in The Netherlands, 1945–1968","authors":"E. Wolff","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2227120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2227120","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42889487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2223132
A. Keil, J. Steinberger
In the face of climate and ecological crises, it is vital that car use be reduced, while simultaneously shifting towards different powertrains and reducing the size, weight and energy demand of vehicles. This poses a challenge to the global car industry, as its business model historically centres on selling more and larger cars. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to examine the social-ecological limits of industrial restructuring in Germany. A narrative literature review through the lens of Marxian political economy sheds light on intertwined system-immanent barriers to achieving social and ecological sustainability at the sectoral level. Consequently, powertrain electrification is structured by technological dynamism, which fuels appropriation in the quest for metals and rare earths, with significant social and ecological disadvantages. This generates an impasse for the industry’s transition strategies. Understanding how capitalist tendencies generate interlaced and mutually re-enforcing barriers to achieving social-ecological sustainability is key to understanding why industrial transitions are insufficient from a social-ecological perspective. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 October 2022 Accepted 6 June 2023
{"title":"Cars, capitalism and ecological crises: understanding systemic barriers to a sustainability transition in the German car industry","authors":"A. Keil, J. Steinberger","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2223132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2223132","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of climate and ecological crises, it is vital that car use be reduced, while simultaneously shifting towards different powertrains and reducing the size, weight and energy demand of vehicles. This poses a challenge to the global car industry, as its business model historically centres on selling more and larger cars. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to examine the social-ecological limits of industrial restructuring in Germany. A narrative literature review through the lens of Marxian political economy sheds light on intertwined system-immanent barriers to achieving social and ecological sustainability at the sectoral level. Consequently, powertrain electrification is structured by technological dynamism, which fuels appropriation in the quest for metals and rare earths, with significant social and ecological disadvantages. This generates an impasse for the industry’s transition strategies. Understanding how capitalist tendencies generate interlaced and mutually re-enforcing barriers to achieving social-ecological sustainability is key to understanding why industrial transitions are insufficient from a social-ecological perspective. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 10 October 2022 Accepted 6 June 2023","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42871278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-16DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2222673
Salam Alshareef
{"title":"A contender state’s multiscalar mediation of transnational capital: the belt and road in the Middle East","authors":"Salam Alshareef","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2222673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2222673","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42682875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-10DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2221181
Nicola Nones
{"title":"Political independence through monetary dependence? The case of Montenegro","authors":"Nicola Nones","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2221181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2221181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42393248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2023.2217770
Assaf S. Bondy, Erez Maggor
{"title":"Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation","authors":"Assaf S. Bondy, Erez Maggor","doi":"10.1080/13563467.2023.2217770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2023.2217770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51447,"journal":{"name":"New Political Economy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43103340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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