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Rescaling International Political Economy Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy
A major trend in recent years in political and economic geography has been the increasingly sophisticated use of the concept of scale. Rescaling International Political Economy sits squarely in geographical debates regarding scale and globalization, but Darel Paul does it within the framework if international political economy. In particular, he argues for the importance of subnational states and localities in creating globalization, and focuses on regions in North America. Alongside his arguments about scalar transformations, Paul looks at how the processes serve transnational capital and how they work to construct the transnational capitalist class which currently rules the globe. His regulationist approach, which stresses how the centrality of state institutions in managing the global economy, will revolutionize how we think about globalization.
Biography
Darel Paul is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Williams College. He did his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, where he worked with geographers and political scientists.
"The book really fills a void, responds to an emerging interest/awareness, and launches a whole new research agenda for which this book will be a basic reference." -- Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City
