American Empire and the Political Economy of

In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside traditional emphases on military intervention, looking instead to economics.

LEO PANITCH is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto and the co-editor of the Socialist Register.

MARTIJN KONINGS recently completed a PhD on the rise of American Finance at York University and is currently a Researcher in the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Notes on the Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Demystifying Imperial Finance	p. 1
Contours and Sources of Imperial Finance	p. 15
Finance and American Empire	p. 17
American Finance and Empire in Historical Perspective	p. 48
Constructing the Pillars of Imperial Finance	p. 69
US Structural Power and the Internationalization of the US Treasury	p. 71
Neoliberalism and the Federal Reserve	p. 90
US Power and the International Bond Market: Financial Flows and the Construction of Risk Value	p. 119
Towards the Americanization of European Finance? The Case of Finance-Led Accumulation in Germany	p. 135
Accounting for Financial Capital: American Hegemony and the Conflict Over International Accounting Standards	p. 159
From Bretton Woods to Neoliberal Reforms: the International Financial Institutions and American Power	p. 175
The Role of Financial Discipline in Imperial Strategy	p. 198
Conclusion	p. 223
The Politics of Imperial Finance	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 275
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