Everyday Politics of the World Economy [Hardcover]

Analyses how 'everyday' decisions and actions can shape and transform the world economy.How can our everyday actions contribute towards shaping and transforming the world economy? This collection of original research essays studies a range of actors and analyses how their 'everyday' decisions and actions can affect the global economy.How can our everyday actions contribute towards shaping and transforming the world economy? This collection of original research essays studies a range of actors and analyses how their 'everyday' decisions and actions can affect the global economy.How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The contributors examine specific forms of everyday actions to demonstrate how small-scale actors and their decisions can shape the global economy. They analyse a range of seemingly ordinary or subordinate actors, including peasants, working classes and trade unions, lower-middle and middle classes, female migrant labourers and Eastern diasporas, and examine how they have agency in transforming their political and economic environments. This book offers a novel way of thinking about everyday forms of change across a range of topical issues including globalisation, international finance, trade, taxation, consumerism, labour rights and regimes. It will appeal to students and scholars of politics, international relations, political economy and sociology.1. Introducing everyday IPE: decentring the discipline - revitalising the margins John M. Hobson and Leonard Seabrooke; Part I. Regimes as Cultural Weapons of the Weak: 2. The agency of labour in global change: reimagining the spaces and scales of trade union praxis within a global economy Andrew Herod; 3. The agency of peripheral actors: small state tax havens and international regimes as weapons oflC1