Book contents
- The American Political Economy
- The American Political Economy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The American Political Economy: A Framework and Agenda for Research
- I Political Arenas and Actors
- II Race, Space, and Governance
- III Corporate Power and Concentration
- IV The American Knowledge Economy
- 11 The United States as Radical Innovation Driver: The Politics of Declining Dominance?
- 12 Public Investment in the Knowledge Economy
- 13 Concentration and Commodification: The Political Economy of Postindustrialism in America and Beyond
- Epilogue The American Political Economy Confronts COVID-19
- Bibliography
Epilogue - The American Political Economy Confronts COVID-19
from IV - The American Knowledge Economy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
Book contents
- The American Political Economy
- The American Political Economy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The American Political Economy: A Framework and Agenda for Research
- I Political Arenas and Actors
- II Race, Space, and Governance
- III Corporate Power and Concentration
- IV The American Knowledge Economy
- 11 The United States as Radical Innovation Driver: The Politics of Declining Dominance?
- 12 Public Investment in the Knowledge Economy
- 13 Concentration and Commodification: The Political Economy of Postindustrialism in America and Beyond
- Epilogue The American Political Economy Confronts COVID-19
- Bibliography
Summary
As this group met in Cambridge in late February 2020 to discuss revised chapters for this project, we did not know that a COVID-19 super-spreader event was unfolding less than three miles away – ironically, at the conference of a major bio-technology firm. By October, estimates suggested that the strains unleashed at that single event might have infected 300,000 Americans (Wines and Harmon 2020). Well before then, of course, it was clear that a world-historical calamity was unfolding before us.
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- The American Political EconomyPolitics, Markets, and Power, pp. 407 - 418Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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