The Limits of Transparency
Ambiguity and the History of International Finance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6324734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen R Mcnamara (0000-0001-5260-9879, Georgetown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 936-937 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance, Jacqueline Best, 2018 |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s153759270578049x |
| OpenAlex | W1981721324 |
| Language | EN |
The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance. By Jacqueline Best. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 240p. $37.50. While social constructivism has moved into the mainstream of international relations theory, informing scholarship in the subfields of security studies and international organization, its application and status in international political economy (IPE) has lagged behind. From the articles in the highest-status political science journals to the works on graduate syllabi across the major research universities, the study of IPE has been dominated by a single view of markets, drawn from neoclassical economics, premised on a narrow view of rationality, and rooted in materialist foundations
Ambiguity · Applied economics · Economics · International relations · International relations theory · Mainstream · Mainstream economics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · Law · State Capitalism and Financial Governance
European artificial intelligence policy as digital single market making
Defined by the Flood
Theorising international monetary relations
Moral Discourse in Economic Contexts
Governing Failure - Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance
Professionalizing Protest
Subjects of Quantum Measurement
Post-neoliberal parallel globalization
Washington dissensus
Crisis, reputation, and the politics of expertise
Presidents, Prime Ministers and Policy Rhetoric
The Impossible Trinity
Viral Governance
No appearance, always reality
Fintech and tax in Sub-Saharan Africa
Space, Boundaries, and the Problem of Order
Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Risk
The Iron Cage Revisited
Studies of Pricing in the New Economic Sociology
A Structural Approach to the Market Culture (The Case of Retailing Organizations of Magadan City)
Ambiguous incorporations
Blockchains, trust and action nets
The end of global pluralism
The concept of transparency in International Relations
From Shadowy Zone to Daily Routine
Building Political Economic Literacy in an Unexpected Place
Provincialising embedded liberalism
On the meaning(s) of norms
War under transnational surveillance
The performance of transparency in public–private infrastructure project governance
Irreparable ignorance, protean power, and economics
St Russian Economic Congress, Moscow, December 7–9, 2009. Some Impressions from Economic Sociology Section
Congress in the World
Differences Beyond Theory
Institutional Change and the Social Sources of American Economic Empire
Information is power? Transparency and fetishism in international relations
Open Societies, Closed Minds? Exploring the Ubiquity of Suspicion and Voyeurism
The hollowing out of monetarism
The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance
Numberless Little Risks”
A Grave Case of Myopia? Die globale Finanzmarktkrise und die Internationale Politische Ökonomie
Global Governance Indices as Policy Instruments
The Institutional Roots of Incremental Ideational Change
Why were capital controls abandoned? The case of Britain’s abolition of exchange controls, 1977–1979
Preparedness, Crisis Management and Policy Change
Managing Macroeconomic Neoliberalism
Hedging neoliberalism
The New Financial Development Paradigm and Asian Bond Markets
From Pragmatism to Dogmatism
The Limits of Financial Risk Management
Seeing Like the IMF on Capital Account Liberalisation
Economic surveillance as a new mode of regional governance
Designing accountability, international economic organisations and the World Bank's Inspection Panel
Australian foreign policy in political time
Global governance as patchwork
The American school of IPE
When ideas fail to influence policy outcomes
Many shades of wrong
Macroprudential regimes and the politics of social purpose
Financial globalization as positive integration
Of intellectual monocultures and the study of IPE
When rules started to rule
The European rescue of the Washington Consensus? EU and IMF lending to Central and Eastern European countries
The politics of legitimate global governance
Economics are too important to leave to economists
Economic statistics as political artefacts
The future of international political economy
Participatory ambiguity and the emergence of the global financial inclusion agenda
Drawing the line
Micro- or macro-moralities? Economic discourses and policy possibilities∗
A novel pathway to power? Contestation and adaptation in China's internationalization of the RMB
Ambiguity in international finance and the spread of financial norms
The politics of influence
Reading the right signals and reading the signals right
Varieties of ignorance in neoliberal policy
Regulating globally, implementing locally
Security, economy, population
Toxic assets, turbulence and biopolitical security
The role of role theory in international political economy
The Difference between an Analytical Framework and a Theoretical Claim
Representation and Power in International Organization
Seeding nature, ceding culture
Governing the future
Forging monetary unification through novation
When Is It Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility
Living by Example?’ The European Union and the Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
Contested governance
Invested interests? Reflexivity, representation and reporting in financial markets
Uncomfortable knowledge in central banking
Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis
Moral Views of Market Society
Re-inventing invention
Speaking to the people? Money, trust, and central bank legitimacy in the age of quantitative easing
Digital extraction
Gift Exchange
Governing the Global Land Grab
Why the Economy is Often the Exception to Politics as Usual
Central banks, monetary stability, and the varieties of capital control liberalization
International Political Economy, Global Financial Orders and the 2008 Financial Crisis
Contextualizing norms
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |