Sustainability transitions is an emerging field of research that has produced both conceptual
understandings of the drivers of technological transitions, as well as more prescriptive and …

" Chapter 1 Introduction: the Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions The question of
whether and how we can collectively steer our economy and society onto a lower carbon …

This article examines the literature on trade liberalization and economic development. It also
briefly looks at the theory of comparative advantage which is seen as justification for global …

What does IPE have to contribute to pressing policy and academic debates about the
urgently required transition to a low carbon global economy? Despite the obviously global …

Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate
change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market …

This paper explores the origins and trajectory of the Washington Consensus–the ideas
associated with the developing countries' move to free markets in the 1980s and 1990s. I …

In a world in which rising powers are reconfiguring global development trajectories with
significant implications for their sustainability, it becomes increasingly important to …

What is the relationship between the direction and form of an energy transition and the
political economy within which it is embedded? This paper explores how the nature of (low …

In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and
developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the …

Introduction The definition of “development” has always been a contentious one. Income
level is of course one of the most widely accepted measures of development, but most …