There is more to national economies than the national economy

Extending the Growth Model research programme in comparative political economy

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ID4237494
AutoresAidan Regan (0000-0001-7558-730X, University College Dublin), Mark Blyth (0000-0001-7782-6183, Brown University)
Año2025
Fecha de publicación2025-02-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocio-Economic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X
DOI10.1093/ser/mwaf003
OpenAlexW4407396105
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas62

This article argues that the Growth Model (GM) research programme in comparative political economy has an ontological and methodological bias towards the national level that generates an implicit functionalist-reductionism. This is a problem because GM research is explicitly designed to be a theory that eschews the functionalist-equilibrium New Keynesian assumptions of Varieties of Capitalism theory. To overcome this problem, we make the case that focusing on the city-regional level within a global-systems level analysis allows for a better integration of comparative political economy with international political economy in GM research. In particular, we argue that focusing on where income growth is produced and concentrated within advanced capitalism (cities-regions) allows us to better explain the political consequences of unequal growth from a post-Keynesian GM-perspective

Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · International political economy · Macroeconomics · National economy · Neoclassical economics · New political economy · Political science · Politics · Post-Keynesian economics · Reductionism · Economic Theory and Policy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies