Rather than evoke a notion of ‘great transformations’ shaping the rise and fall of market economy in the tradition of Karl Polanyi, Economic Ideas in Political Time by Wesley Widmaier offers an enticing argument on the construction of political economic orders across time.
Focusing on [...]
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International Political Economy (IPE) tends to be tribal. IPE scholars often say what they are as well as what they study. Wesley Widmaier is an avowed constructivist and in his book Economic Ideas in Political Time he goes further down the ideational rabbit hole to study the rise and fall [...]
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Wesley Widmaier’s Economic Ideas in Political Time is an ambitious book that foregrounds not only the role of political actors in shaping the course of economic revisions of twentieth-century America, but importantly the role of the speech act in generating the ideological conditions in [...]
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Wesley Widmaier has produced an outstanding and original book in Economic Ideas in Political Time, drawing together and extending upon several branches of political economy and social psychology. His signature contribution is to combine constructivist and institutionalist approaches and [...]
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It doesn’t surprise us any longer, I think, to hear stories about how middle-aged, white, probably Anglo-American, men have ruined everything.
The media, and various academic texts, have presented to us stories of the so-called global financial crisis that invariably centre [...]
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In an important sense we are all constructivists now. The vast majority of International Political Economy (IPE) scholars would readily agree that interests are not natural or pregiven but constructed and bound up with identities; that ideas have a certain degree of independent causal [...]
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