A Critical History of the Economy

This book provides a detailed intellectual and critical history of the economy, explaining how the economy came to be analytically separated from its social and political moorings in the 19th century. It offers a historical perspective on current IPE concerns, and links IPE with the growing field of contextualist intellectual history.

Drawing on recent debates in critical International Political Economy, this book　mobilizes the idea that the economy does not exist separately from society and　politics to　develop a detailed intellectual history of how the economy came to be seen as an independent domain.　

In contrast to typical approaches to writing the history of economic thought, which　assume the reality of the economy, the author describes the forms of intellectual argument that made it possible to conceive of the national and international economies as objects of intellectual inquiry. At the centre of this process was the analytical separation of power and wealth. Walter thus offers a broad historical perspective on the emergence of current IPE theory, while linking the field with contextualist intellectual history.

This important and innovative volume will be of strong interest to students and scholars of International Political Economy, International Relations, Economics, History and Political Theory.

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