includes bibliographical references and index.

The study of global political economy -- Race, empire, colonialism and the pre-history of global political economy -- Cooperation and conflict in the global political economy -- Ideas, social hierarchies and the everyday -- Global trade -- Identity and attitudes towards trade -- Global production and unfree labour -- The evolution of the international monetary and financial system -- The politics of Global financial stability -- Global finance and the everyday -- Ideologies of globalism, populism, and economic nationalism -- China and the global political economy -- The political economy of global inequality -- The global political economy of development -- The global political economy of North-South relations: a view from the south -- The political economy of the environment -- The global political economy of digital technology