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The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2005

Kathleen R. McNamara
Kathleen R. McNamara
Affiliation:
Georgetown University
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The Limits of Transparency: Ambiguity and the History of International Finance. By Jacqueline Best. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 240p. $37.50.

While social constructivism has moved into the mainstream of international relations theory, informing scholarship in the subfields of security studies and international organization, its application and status in international political economy (IPE) has lagged behind. From the articles in the highest-status political science journals to the works on graduate syllabi across the major research universities, the study of IPE has been dominated by a single view of markets, drawn from neoclassical economics, premised on a narrow view of rationality, and rooted in materialist foundations.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 936 - 937
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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