Beneath the Commerce of Nations

A Theory of International Economic Structures

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6272785
AutoresDavid A Lake (0000-0001-7811-5885, UC San Diego Health System, autor de correspondencia)
Año1984
Volumen28
Número2
Páginas143
Fecha de publicación1984-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8833 • E-ISSN: 1468-2478
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2600693
OpenAlexW2029908912
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30

Drawing upon the theory of hegemonic stability, this paper advances a theory of international economic structures. It places particular emphasis on analyzing the whole structure of the international economy, and not simply the absence or presence of hegemony. It finds that there is no axiomatic relationship between hegemony and free trade or declining hegemony and protection. By differentiating between non-hegemonic structures, moreover, the theory of international economic structures also calls into question the appropriateness of the 'British' or '1930' analogy for the future of the present international economy. Finally, the theory is briefly examined through the case of American trade policy in the inter-war period and the 1970s and 1980s. The conclusion argues against simplistic analogies between the two periods and maintains that a considerable potential does exist for collective leadership of the international economy in the 1980s

Analogy · Axiom · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Hegemony · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · International Development and Aid · Law · Philosophy · State Capitalism and Financial Governance