TY - BOOK AU - Panitch,LeoEd AU - Konings,Martijn TI - The American empire and the political economy of global finance T2 - International political economy series SN - 9780230236080 (pbk.) AV - HF1455 .A676 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - International finance KW - United States KW - Politics and government KW - 1989- N1 - "Updated and expanded edition with a new chapter on the political economy of the subprime crisis"--Cover; Originally published: 2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index N2 - In a critique of how international and comparative political economies misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside emphasis on military intervention, looking instead to economics ER -