Gerard Strange
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 713845 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gerard Strange |
| NOMBRES | Gerard |
| APELLIDO | Strange |
| FIRMA | STRANGE G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7362-8080 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The greenback’s double bind
In this discussion piece, the dollar’s recent history of strength and endurance as a global currency, despite many challenges, is outlined in review in order to provide context for analyses of the currency’s most recent challenges, including those faced under the new Trump administration. These are explained as a double bind. On the one hand, as emphasised by Kenneth Rogoff [2025. Our Dollar, Your Problem. New Haven: Yale University Press], among…
Debating Free International Trade
This article begins with a definition of free international trade and a brief history of the evolution of free trade as an ideology and economic policy. It next considers the case for free trade as first articulated by classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo and then examines free trade critiques proffered by Friedrich List and Marxist scholars who claim that free trade can never be just nor fair so long as relational and structural pow…
Assessing policy success and failure
Assessing policy success and failure is a significant challenge. This article seeks to address this by utilizing two case studies of legislation from the United Kingdom Parliament, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and the Academies Act 2010, so as to develop a nuanced understanding of how and in what ways policies have been successful, or otherwise. Drawing on these two case studies, and the work of a variety of authors, the article illustrates…
Evidence-informed or value-based? exploring the scrutiny of legislation in the UK Parliament
This article argues that three types of factor – process, subject and political circumstance – are likely to affect the extent to which claims of evidence are made during legislative scrutiny. It draws upon case studies of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Academies Act 2010 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, utilising interviews with those involved and information from Hansard. The article concludes that these cases highlight that w…
Depoliticisation, the Management of Money and the Renewal of Social Democracy
Pointing to its radical underpinnings in so-called ‘Open Marxism’ and its theory of the state (one that subsumes the state in the capital relation), this article critically scrutinises Peter Burnham's thesis of ‘depoliticisation’ as a dominant accumulation strategy and regime. The article identifies ambiguities around Burnham's depiction of New Labour in power as committed to depoliticisation. It addresses these by drawing a distinction between r…
European Regionalism And The Left
"Written against a background of global economic and political turmoil, including crisis and uncertainty surrounding the European Union, European Regionalism and the Left offers new critical insights into a range of fundamental problems facing the project of European integration. Issues covered include: the limits and possibilities of European Monetary Union; the impact of European regionalism on the political organisations of the European left; …
The Euro, EU Social Democracy, and International Monetary Power
This article critically interrogates the principle claims of the ‘new constitutionalist’ thesis, particularly as applied to the evaluation of European monetary union (EMU). In doing so, it argues for the (continuing) efficacy of the euro as a vector for social democratic advance both at the EU and global levels. It is argued that new constitutionalism's exclusive focus on the internal and external ‘neoliberal’ constraints EMU imposes on social de…
Understanding the Fundamentals of Capital, the Crisis and the Alternatives
Research Highlights and Abstract Critically engages with analyses of fundamental principles associated with capitalist crisis as differently presented in the theories of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. Critiques the narrow labour-focused account of Marx's circuit theory of capital found in so-called ‘Open Marxism’. Highlights the importance of Keynes's treatment of money as an independent variable to the further development of circuit and cris…
China's Post-Listian Rise
While China's rise has been much discussed, its meaning continues to be contested. This is true in radical international political economy, where, for example, it was the subject of (often polarised) debates between Giovanni Arrighi and David Harvey prior to Arrighi's death in 2009. This reflected a broader debate in IPE between development theory and radical globalisation analysis. The key point of contention is whether China's rise represents a…
From ‘embedded liberalism’ to ‘negotiated openness
This article 1 is primarily concerned with the political economy of British trade union policy towards the European Community (EC) in the 1960s and 1970s. Its aim is to reassess union engagement with the EC in this period from a viewpoint informed by the now established perspective of world-order analysis in international political economy (Cox, 1981; Lipietz, 1992; Gamble & Payne, 1996; Payne, 2005). The article is specifically concerned with th…
The Left Against Europe? A Critical Engagement with New Constitutionalism and Structural Dependence Theory
This article offers a critical engagement with two important strands of left theorizations of European Union integration and globalization, namely, ‘new constitutionalism’ (a sub-form of neo-Gramscian analysis) and ‘structural dependence’ theory (rooted in a more orthodox Marxist approach). These approaches suffer, respectively, from an uncritical or one-sided approach to constitutionalism and competitiveness; and from a theoretical conflation of…
The new cultural economy, the artist and the social configuration of autonomy
Legacy description not available
Beyond ‘Third Wave’ Globalisation Analysis
Globalisation has become one of the most debated terms in politics, international relations and political economy in the last decade. The debate was initially instigated by the so-called ‘first wave’ ‘hyper-globalisation’ analysis of American business schools (see Porter, 1990; Reich, 1992; Ohmae, 1990). One of the central themes of this predominantly realist/positivist literature was the idea that the increasingly integrated world economy that e…
Globalisation, Regionalism and Labour Interests in the New International Political Economy
This article has two main objectives. First, it provides a critical appraisal of the theoretical accounts of globalisation/regionalisation provided by the left structuralist or ‘hyperglobalist’ approach and the new constitutionalist version of the neo-Gramscian approach. It is argued that both approaches have been essentially negative in their evaluation of the role and position of organised labour in the changing IPE. Such pessimism is particula…
British Trade Unions and European Union Integration in the 1990s
This article evaluates the changing assessments within the British trade union movement of the efficacy of European Union integration from the viewpoint of labour interests. It argues that there has been a marked further ‘Europeanisation’ of British trade unionism during the 1990s, consolidating an on-going process which previous research shows began in earnest in the mid 1980s. A shift in trade union economic policy assessments has seen the deci…
Capitalism, Valorization and the Political Economy of Ecological Crisis
This article highlights valorization through commodification as a process specific to and defining of the capitalist mode of production as the key dynamic to ecological crisis. It goes on to review recent Marxist scholarship on the political economy of ecological crisis and provides a critical assessment of the work of James O'Connor that draws on the work of Andre Gorz
Environmental Politics
OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OR SO, analysts on the 'left'-perhaps still a serviceable phrase until a better one is found-have been rethinking familiar categories partly at least in order to identify new 'revolutionary subjects', especially in the new social movements. Environmental destruction and green resistance have been in the orbit of these analyses for some time, and we can now draw on a rich and well-established eco-Marxist (e.g. Ted Benton…
The British Labour Movement and Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT and controversial policy issues currently facing the British Labour movement is undoubtedly the question of whether or not a Labour government should take the historic step of abandoning sterling—not something it has favoured in the past—and sign up for the European single currency and full European economic and monetary union (EMU
Which Path to Paradise? Andre Gorz, Political Ecology and the Green Movement
In this article Gerard Strange examines Gorz's development of political ecology around the notions of self-limitation and autonomy. While endorsing his humanist articulation of political ecology, Strange criticises Gorz's advocacy of what is identified as a productivist model of transition from capitalism to post-industrial socialism. The productivist model is contradictory since it breaks with the Green imperative and alienates increasingly impo…
The role of economic policy in the Europeanization of the TUC
China's Post-Listian Rise
While China's rise has been much discussed, its meaning continues to be contested. This is true in radical international political economy, where, for example, it was the subject of (often polarised) debates between Giovanni Arrighi and David Harvey prior to Arrighi's death in 2009. This reflected a broader debate in IPE between development theory and radical globalisation analysis. The key point of contention is whether China's rise represents a…
The Left Against Europe? A Critical Engagement with New Constitutionalism and Structural Dependence Theory
This article offers a critical engagement with two important strands of left theorizations of European Union integration and globalization, namely, ‘new constitutionalism’ (a sub-form of neo-Gramscian analysis) and ‘structural dependence’ theory (rooted in a more orthodox Marxist approach). These approaches suffer, respectively, from an uncritical or one-sided approach to constitutionalism and competitiveness; and from a theoretical conflation of…
Globalisation, Regionalism and Labour Interests in the New International Political Economy
This article has two main objectives. First, it provides a critical appraisal of the theoretical accounts of globalisation/regionalisation provided by the left structuralist or ‘hyperglobalist’ approach and the new constitutionalist version of the neo-Gramscian approach. It is argued that both approaches have been essentially negative in their evaluation of the role and position of organised labour in the changing IPE. Such pessimism is particula…
The new cultural economy, the artist and the social configuration of autonomy
Legacy description not available
British Trade Unions and European Union Integration in the 1990s
This article evaluates the changing assessments within the British trade union movement of the efficacy of European Union integration from the viewpoint of labour interests. It argues that there has been a marked further ‘Europeanisation’ of British trade unionism during the 1990s, consolidating an on-going process which previous research shows began in earnest in the mid 1980s. A shift in trade union economic policy assessments has seen the deci…
The British Labour Movement and Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT and controversial policy issues currently facing the British Labour movement is undoubtedly the question of whether or not a Labour government should take the historic step of abandoning sterling—not something it has favoured in the past—and sign up for the European single currency and full European economic and monetary union (EMU
Depoliticisation, the Management of Money and the Renewal of Social Democracy
Pointing to its radical underpinnings in so-called ‘Open Marxism’ and its theory of the state (one that subsumes the state in the capital relation), this article critically scrutinises Peter Burnham's thesis of ‘depoliticisation’ as a dominant accumulation strategy and regime. The article identifies ambiguities around Burnham's depiction of New Labour in power as committed to depoliticisation. It addresses these by drawing a distinction between r…
Assessing policy success and failure
Assessing policy success and failure is a significant challenge. This article seeks to address this by utilizing two case studies of legislation from the United Kingdom Parliament, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and the Academies Act 2010, so as to develop a nuanced understanding of how and in what ways policies have been successful, or otherwise. Drawing on these two case studies, and the work of a variety of authors, the article illustrates…
Evidence-informed or value-based? exploring the scrutiny of legislation in the UK Parliament
This article argues that three types of factor – process, subject and political circumstance – are likely to affect the extent to which claims of evidence are made during legislative scrutiny. It draws upon case studies of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Academies Act 2010 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, utilising interviews with those involved and information from Hansard. The article concludes that these cases highlight that w…
The role of economic policy in the Europeanization of the TUC
Debating Free International Trade
This article begins with a definition of free international trade and a brief history of the evolution of free trade as an ideology and economic policy. It next considers the case for free trade as first articulated by classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo and then examines free trade critiques proffered by Friedrich List and Marxist scholars who claim that free trade can never be just nor fair so long as relational and structural pow…
Capitalism, Valorization and the Political Economy of Ecological Crisis
This article highlights valorization through commodification as a process specific to and defining of the capitalist mode of production as the key dynamic to ecological crisis. It goes on to review recent Marxist scholarship on the political economy of ecological crisis and provides a critical assessment of the work of James O'Connor that draws on the work of Andre Gorz
Which Path to Paradise? Andre Gorz, Political Ecology and the Green Movement
In this article Gerard Strange examines Gorz's development of political ecology around the notions of self-limitation and autonomy. While endorsing his humanist articulation of political ecology, Strange criticises Gorz's advocacy of what is identified as a productivist model of transition from capitalism to post-industrial socialism. The productivist model is contradictory since it breaks with the Green imperative and alienates increasingly impo…
The Euro, EU Social Democracy, and International Monetary Power
This article critically interrogates the principle claims of the ‘new constitutionalist’ thesis, particularly as applied to the evaluation of European monetary union (EMU). In doing so, it argues for the (continuing) efficacy of the euro as a vector for social democratic advance both at the EU and global levels. It is argued that new constitutionalism's exclusive focus on the internal and external ‘neoliberal’ constraints EMU imposes on social de…
From ‘embedded liberalism’ to ‘negotiated openness
This article 1 is primarily concerned with the political economy of British trade union policy towards the European Community (EC) in the 1960s and 1970s. Its aim is to reassess union engagement with the EC in this period from a viewpoint informed by the now established perspective of world-order analysis in international political economy (Cox, 1981; Lipietz, 1992; Gamble & Payne, 1996; Payne, 2005). The article is specifically concerned with th…
The role of economic policy in the Europeanization of the TUC
Which Path to Paradise? Andre Gorz, Political Ecology and the Green Movement
In this article Gerard Strange examines Gorz's development of political ecology around the notions of self-limitation and autonomy. While endorsing his humanist articulation of political ecology, Strange criticises Gorz's advocacy of what is identified as a productivist model of transition from capitalism to post-industrial socialism. The productivist model is contradictory since it breaks with the Green imperative and alienates increasingly impo…
The British Labour Movement and Economic and Monetary Union in Europe
ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT and controversial policy issues currently facing the British Labour movement is undoubtedly the question of whether or not a Labour government should take the historic step of abandoning sterling—not something it has favoured in the past—and sign up for the European single currency and full European economic and monetary union (EMU
Capitalism, Valorization and the Political Economy of Ecological Crisis
This article highlights valorization through commodification as a process specific to and defining of the capitalist mode of production as the key dynamic to ecological crisis. It goes on to review recent Marxist scholarship on the political economy of ecological crisis and provides a critical assessment of the work of James O'Connor that draws on the work of Andre Gorz
Environmental Politics
OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS OR SO, analysts on the 'left'-perhaps still a serviceable phrase until a better one is found-have been rethinking familiar categories partly at least in order to identify new 'revolutionary subjects', especially in the new social movements. Environmental destruction and green resistance have been in the orbit of these analyses for some time, and we can now draw on a rich and well-established eco-Marxist (e.g. Ted Benton…
Globalisation, Regionalism and Labour Interests in the New International Political Economy
This article has two main objectives. First, it provides a critical appraisal of the theoretical accounts of globalisation/regionalisation provided by the left structuralist or ‘hyperglobalist’ approach and the new constitutionalist version of the neo-Gramscian approach. It is argued that both approaches have been essentially negative in their evaluation of the role and position of organised labour in the changing IPE. Such pessimism is particula…
British Trade Unions and European Union Integration in the 1990s
This article evaluates the changing assessments within the British trade union movement of the efficacy of European Union integration from the viewpoint of labour interests. It argues that there has been a marked further ‘Europeanisation’ of British trade unionism during the 1990s, consolidating an on-going process which previous research shows began in earnest in the mid 1980s. A shift in trade union economic policy assessments has seen the deci…
Beyond ‘Third Wave’ Globalisation Analysis
Globalisation has become one of the most debated terms in politics, international relations and political economy in the last decade. The debate was initially instigated by the so-called ‘first wave’ ‘hyper-globalisation’ analysis of American business schools (see Porter, 1990; Reich, 1992; Ohmae, 1990). One of the central themes of this predominantly realist/positivist literature was the idea that the increasingly integrated world economy that e…
The new cultural economy, the artist and the social configuration of autonomy
Legacy description not available
The Left Against Europe? A Critical Engagement with New Constitutionalism and Structural Dependence Theory
This article offers a critical engagement with two important strands of left theorizations of European Union integration and globalization, namely, ‘new constitutionalism’ (a sub-form of neo-Gramscian analysis) and ‘structural dependence’ theory (rooted in a more orthodox Marxist approach). These approaches suffer, respectively, from an uncritical or one-sided approach to constitutionalism and competitiveness; and from a theoretical conflation of…
From ‘embedded liberalism’ to ‘negotiated openness
This article 1 is primarily concerned with the political economy of British trade union policy towards the European Community (EC) in the 1960s and 1970s. Its aim is to reassess union engagement with the EC in this period from a viewpoint informed by the now established perspective of world-order analysis in international political economy (Cox, 1981; Lipietz, 1992; Gamble & Payne, 1996; Payne, 2005). The article is specifically concerned with th…
China's Post-Listian Rise
While China's rise has been much discussed, its meaning continues to be contested. This is true in radical international political economy, where, for example, it was the subject of (often polarised) debates between Giovanni Arrighi and David Harvey prior to Arrighi's death in 2009. This reflected a broader debate in IPE between development theory and radical globalisation analysis. The key point of contention is whether China's rise represents a…
European Regionalism And The Left
"Written against a background of global economic and political turmoil, including crisis and uncertainty surrounding the European Union, European Regionalism and the Left offers new critical insights into a range of fundamental problems facing the project of European integration. Issues covered include: the limits and possibilities of European Monetary Union; the impact of European regionalism on the political organisations of the European left; …
The Euro, EU Social Democracy, and International Monetary Power
This article critically interrogates the principle claims of the ‘new constitutionalist’ thesis, particularly as applied to the evaluation of European monetary union (EMU). In doing so, it argues for the (continuing) efficacy of the euro as a vector for social democratic advance both at the EU and global levels. It is argued that new constitutionalism's exclusive focus on the internal and external ‘neoliberal’ constraints EMU imposes on social de…
Understanding the Fundamentals of Capital, the Crisis and the Alternatives
Research Highlights and Abstract Critically engages with analyses of fundamental principles associated with capitalist crisis as differently presented in the theories of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. Critiques the narrow labour-focused account of Marx's circuit theory of capital found in so-called ‘Open Marxism’. Highlights the importance of Keynes's treatment of money as an independent variable to the further development of circuit and cris…
Depoliticisation, the Management of Money and the Renewal of Social Democracy
Pointing to its radical underpinnings in so-called ‘Open Marxism’ and its theory of the state (one that subsumes the state in the capital relation), this article critically scrutinises Peter Burnham's thesis of ‘depoliticisation’ as a dominant accumulation strategy and regime. The article identifies ambiguities around Burnham's depiction of New Labour in power as committed to depoliticisation. It addresses these by drawing a distinction between r…
Assessing policy success and failure
Assessing policy success and failure is a significant challenge. This article seeks to address this by utilizing two case studies of legislation from the United Kingdom Parliament, the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and the Academies Act 2010, so as to develop a nuanced understanding of how and in what ways policies have been successful, or otherwise. Drawing on these two case studies, and the work of a variety of authors, the article illustrates…
Evidence-informed or value-based? exploring the scrutiny of legislation in the UK Parliament
This article argues that three types of factor – process, subject and political circumstance – are likely to affect the extent to which claims of evidence are made during legislative scrutiny. It draws upon case studies of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998, the Academies Act 2010 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016, utilising interviews with those involved and information from Hansard. The article concludes that these cases highlight that w…
Debating Free International Trade
This article begins with a definition of free international trade and a brief history of the evolution of free trade as an ideology and economic policy. It next considers the case for free trade as first articulated by classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo and then examines free trade critiques proffered by Friedrich List and Marxist scholars who claim that free trade can never be just nor fair so long as relational and structural pow…
The greenback’s double bind
In this discussion piece, the dollar’s recent history of strength and endurance as a global currency, despite many challenges, is outlined in review in order to provide context for analyses of the currency’s most recent challenges, including those faced under the new Trump administration. These are explained as a double bind. On the one hand, as emphasised by Kenneth Rogoff [2025. Our Dollar, Your Problem. New Haven: Yale University Press], among…
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