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Statecraft and the Political Economy of Capitalism

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15971-8

ISBN: 978-3-031-15970-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2023

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Chapter 1Reintroducing Statecraft

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 1 –11

[This chapter introduces the reader to the concept of statecraft, highlighting the original dimensions of the meaning of statecraft advanced in the book. In our analysis, statecraft signifies the practice of inventing and carrying out the affairs of the state, or more simply the political...
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Chapter 2The Ambitions of Government: Statecraft in Historical Perspective

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 13 –37

[This chapter provides a historical and theoretical context for thinking about the role of the state in relation to the achievement of shared ends, with attention to the origins of statecraft in the work of Aristotle and to its subsequent development in relation to the economic, social, and...
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Chapter 3The Public Purpose of Political Economy

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 39 –69

[This chapter establishes the political negotiation of the public good or common benefit as an indispensable practice of statecraft. We argue that the field of Political Economy must support the advance of political knowledge essential to the public negotiation of collective ends and aspirations....
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Chapter 4National Economic Policy: History, Culture, and Development

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 71 –91

[This chapter explores the relationship between modern statecraft and the national economy through the work of the iconoclastic nineteenth-century economist Friedrich List and his twentieth-century interlocutors, whom we associate with a tradition identified in the chapter as developmental...
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Chapter 5The Delicate Order of Liberalism

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 93 –124

[This chapter identifies declining public trust and the advance of a politics of cultural resentment in many “advanced” democracies as problems to which statecraft must urgently attend. We leverage the experience of the interwar period and the writings of three of its most important...
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Chapter 6The Transgressive Economy

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 125 –152

[This chapter examines Georges Bataille’s groundbreaking theory of the “general economy” for insights into a number of economic and political dynamics evident in a time of globalization and digitalization—forces that defy the concepts and categories, such as “sovereignty” and “the economy,”...
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Chapter 7Democracy as Statecraft

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 153 –170

[This chapter considers the relationship of statecraft to democracy and citizenship. One defining feature of contemporary statecraft is the extent to which the activities of citizens have been displaced by the imperatives of administration and constrained by the so-called requirements of the...
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Chapter 8Conclusion: An Agenda for Citizenship

Nelson, Scott G.; Shelton, Joel T.

Pages: 171 –180

[A brief conclusion lays out a preliminary agenda for a renewal of the practice of statecraft, offering initial reflections on the considerable efforts that must be made to revive this indispensable work through the activities of citizenship. This labor, drawing as it must on the aspirations,...

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