Jack Copley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Copley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Copley |
| SIGNATURE | COPLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0113-5877 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historical specificity and social form: Political Marxism and Open Marxism in conversation
This is the introductory article to the special issue on the convergences and divergences in Political and Open Marxism. It traces the historical and intellectual origins of these traditions and their original contributions to the theorisation of capitalism. It explores how their shared concern with the historical specificity of capitalism’s social forms challenged the established dogmas of Orthodox Marxism. The article also sheds light on their …
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Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation
Studies of the political economy of decarbonisation have begun to move beyond the price-centrism of neoclassical economics to explore the role of profits in propelling, or failing to propel, a green transformation. This article pushes this argument further, claiming with Marx that the focus on profits is useful insofar as it leads us to a broader analysis of the capitalist dynamics of competition, overaccumulation, and crisis that any green trans…
The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown
Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the prospects of state-led environmental transitions in general terms – enquiring as to the capitalist state’s inherent properties and their environmental implications. Less attention has been paid to how the state’s green capacities are conditioned by contemporary evolutions in the form and pace of capital accumul…
Le capitalisme en déclin: L'automation dans une économie stagnante
La quatrième révolution industrielle (ou l’Industrie 4.0) est arrivée. De l’intelligence artificielle à la culture des viandes en passant par les imprimantes en 3D, les innovations actuelles semblent être sur le point de faire émerger un monde d’abondance matérielle et de loisirs sans précédent. Telle est la prévision du World Economic Forum, qui se réjouit de cette transformation technologique imminente comme « l’occasion [...] de créer un aveni…
Beyond the Mutual Constitution of States and Markets: On the Governance of Alienation
International Political Economy (IPE) textbooks tend to present the concept of a clear state-market dichotomy as the disciplinary mainstream. Yet we argue that a critical consensus has emerged around the mutual constitution of states and markets. Underpinning this is the Polanyian thesis that economic activities are always politically embedded. However, we claim that this notion of state-market mutual constitution is inadequate to grasp the pecul…
Why were capital controls abandoned? The case of Britain’s abolition of exchange controls, 1977–1979
This article examines the politics of capital control liberalisation through an archival analysis of Britain’s exchange controls abolition. While the political economy consensus states that capital controls were abandoned because of a desire to boost the competitiveness of national financial centres and the ascendance of laissez-faire ideas, this article will challenge this interpretation. The James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher governments wer…
Depoliticizing space: The politics of governing global finance
This article argues that neoliberal state restructuring is best theorized by bringing two critical approaches into conversation: the spatial concepts of de/reterritorialization and rescaling, and the depoliticization thesis. The globalization of economic activities paradoxically requires the expansion of territorially-bounded regulatory infrastructures, which Brenner terms the dialectic of de- and reterritorialization. Yet this dynamic entails a …
Financial Deregulation and the Role of Statecraft: Lessons from Britain’s 1971 Competition and Credit Control Measures
Within the financialisation literature, a number of approaches identify the coexistence of financial expansion and productive stagnation. Yet there is no consensus on which direction causality operates between these two phenomena. This impasse has been widened by the lack of attention paid to the role of statecraft strategies in mediating possible causal mechanisms. This article contributes to rectifying this shortcoming by focusing on the govern…
Productive and unproductive labour and social form: Putting class struggle in its place
The categories of productive and unproductive labour have been a source of contention among Marxist scholars since Marx first committed them to paper. This article will offer a critique of both the orthodox and autonomist approaches to this issue, arguing that they constitute transhistorical and analytically inadequate interpretations. In contrast, a social form approach to productive and unproductive labour provides a substantive definition of t…
Monetary policy in times of crisis: Pragmatism and conflict
Duncan Needham UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-1982, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2014; 272 pp.: 9781137369536. 70 [pounds sterling] (hbk) Duncan Needham has not written a particularly long book, but you may be forgiven for thinking it was, considering the sheer density of the information packed within. Drawing heavily from Bank of England and Treasury archives from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the author presents …
The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown
Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the prospects of state-led environmental transitions in general terms – enquiring as to the capitalist state’s inherent properties and their environmental implications. Less attention has been paid to how the state’s green capacities are conditioned by contemporary evolutions in the form and pace of capital accumul…
Financial Deregulation and the Role of Statecraft: Lessons from Britain’s 1971 Competition and Credit Control Measures
Within the financialisation literature, a number of approaches identify the coexistence of financial expansion and productive stagnation. Yet there is no consensus on which direction causality operates between these two phenomena. This impasse has been widened by the lack of attention paid to the role of statecraft strategies in mediating possible causal mechanisms. This article contributes to rectifying this shortcoming by focusing on the govern…
Beyond the Mutual Constitution of States and Markets: On the Governance of Alienation
International Political Economy (IPE) textbooks tend to present the concept of a clear state-market dichotomy as the disciplinary mainstream. Yet we argue that a critical consensus has emerged around the mutual constitution of states and markets. Underpinning this is the Polanyian thesis that economic activities are always politically embedded. However, we claim that this notion of state-market mutual constitution is inadequate to grasp the pecul…
Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation
Studies of the political economy of decarbonisation have begun to move beyond the price-centrism of neoclassical economics to explore the role of profits in propelling, or failing to propel, a green transformation. This article pushes this argument further, claiming with Marx that the focus on profits is useful insofar as it leads us to a broader analysis of the capitalist dynamics of competition, overaccumulation, and crisis that any green trans…
Why were capital controls abandoned? The case of Britain’s abolition of exchange controls, 1977–1979
This article examines the politics of capital control liberalisation through an archival analysis of Britain’s exchange controls abolition. While the political economy consensus states that capital controls were abandoned because of a desire to boost the competitiveness of national financial centres and the ascendance of laissez-faire ideas, this article will challenge this interpretation. The James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher governments wer…
Productive and unproductive labour and social form: Putting class struggle in its place
The categories of productive and unproductive labour have been a source of contention among Marxist scholars since Marx first committed them to paper. This article will offer a critique of both the orthodox and autonomist approaches to this issue, arguing that they constitute transhistorical and analytically inadequate interpretations. In contrast, a social form approach to productive and unproductive labour provides a substantive definition of t…
Depoliticizing space: The politics of governing global finance
This article argues that neoliberal state restructuring is best theorized by bringing two critical approaches into conversation: the spatial concepts of de/reterritorialization and rescaling, and the depoliticization thesis. The globalization of economic activities paradoxically requires the expansion of territorially-bounded regulatory infrastructures, which Brenner terms the dialectic of de- and reterritorialization. Yet this dynamic entails a …
Monetary policy in times of crisis: Pragmatism and conflict
Duncan Needham UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967-1982, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2014; 272 pp.: 9781137369536. 70 [pounds sterling] (hbk) Duncan Needham has not written a particularly long book, but you may be forgiven for thinking it was, considering the sheer density of the information packed within. Drawing heavily from Bank of England and Treasury archives from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the author presents …
Financial Deregulation and the Role of Statecraft: Lessons from Britain’s 1971 Competition and Credit Control Measures
Within the financialisation literature, a number of approaches identify the coexistence of financial expansion and productive stagnation. Yet there is no consensus on which direction causality operates between these two phenomena. This impasse has been widened by the lack of attention paid to the role of statecraft strategies in mediating possible causal mechanisms. This article contributes to rectifying this shortcoming by focusing on the govern…
Productive and unproductive labour and social form: Putting class struggle in its place
The categories of productive and unproductive labour have been a source of contention among Marxist scholars since Marx first committed them to paper. This article will offer a critique of both the orthodox and autonomist approaches to this issue, arguing that they constitute transhistorical and analytically inadequate interpretations. In contrast, a social form approach to productive and unproductive labour provides a substantive definition of t…
Depoliticizing space: The politics of governing global finance
This article argues that neoliberal state restructuring is best theorized by bringing two critical approaches into conversation: the spatial concepts of de/reterritorialization and rescaling, and the depoliticization thesis. The globalization of economic activities paradoxically requires the expansion of territorially-bounded regulatory infrastructures, which Brenner terms the dialectic of de- and reterritorialization. Yet this dynamic entails a …
Why were capital controls abandoned? The case of Britain’s abolition of exchange controls, 1977–1979
This article examines the politics of capital control liberalisation through an archival analysis of Britain’s exchange controls abolition. While the political economy consensus states that capital controls were abandoned because of a desire to boost the competitiveness of national financial centres and the ascendance of laissez-faire ideas, this article will challenge this interpretation. The James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher governments wer…
Beyond the Mutual Constitution of States and Markets: On the Governance of Alienation
International Political Economy (IPE) textbooks tend to present the concept of a clear state-market dichotomy as the disciplinary mainstream. Yet we argue that a critical consensus has emerged around the mutual constitution of states and markets. Underpinning this is the Polanyian thesis that economic activities are always politically embedded. However, we claim that this notion of state-market mutual constitution is inadequate to grasp the pecul…
Le capitalisme en déclin: L'automation dans une économie stagnante
La quatrième révolution industrielle (ou l’Industrie 4.0) est arrivée. De l’intelligence artificielle à la culture des viandes en passant par les imprimantes en 3D, les innovations actuelles semblent être sur le point de faire émerger un monde d’abondance matérielle et de loisirs sans précédent. Telle est la prévision du World Economic Forum, qui se réjouit de cette transformation technologique imminente comme « l’occasion [...] de créer un aveni…
The ‘wicked trinity’ of late capitalism: Governing in an era of stagnation, surplus humanity, and environmental breakdown
Scholars within the fields of political ecology, environmental political theory, and international political economy tend to evaluate the prospects of state-led environmental transitions in general terms – enquiring as to the capitalist state’s inherent properties and their environmental implications. Less attention has been paid to how the state’s green capacities are conditioned by contemporary evolutions in the form and pace of capital accumul…
Green Vulcans? The political economy of steel decarbonisation
Studies of the political economy of decarbonisation have begun to move beyond the price-centrism of neoclassical economics to explore the role of profits in propelling, or failing to propel, a green transformation. This article pushes this argument further, claiming with Marx that the focus on profits is useful insofar as it leads us to a broader analysis of the capitalist dynamics of competition, overaccumulation, and crisis that any green trans…
Historical specificity and social form: Political Marxism and Open Marxism in conversation
This is the introductory article to the special issue on the convergences and divergences in Political and Open Marxism. It traces the historical and intellectual origins of these traditions and their original contributions to the theorisation of capitalism. It explores how their shared concern with the historical specificity of capitalism’s social forms challenged the established dogmas of Orthodox Marxism. The article also sheds light on their …
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