Publication of the Japanese Political Economy (JPE) issues

(1) The Japanese Political Economy, Volume 46, Issue 1 (2020), the evolution of diverse e-money: Digital-community currencies and cryptocurrencies has been released. All the abstracts and two free articles are available on the JPE Website.

• • (Free article) Makoto Nishibe, “Good money drives out bad: Introduction to the featured section on “The evolution of diverse e-money: Digital-community currencies and cryptocurrencies”
  • Rolf F. H. Schroeder, “Beyond the veil of money: Boundaries as constitutive elements of complementary currencies”
  • Louis-Maxime Joly, “Federalism and cooperation for community currencies: Some ideas on the need for intercommunity clearing systems”
  • (Free article) Juan J. Duque, “State involvement in cryptocurrencies. A potential world money?”
  • Makoto Itoh, “Marx’s theory of value for socialism”

(2) The Japanese Political Economy, Volume 46, Issue 2-3 (2020), International economic governance in a multipolar world has recently been released. All the abstracts and two free articles are available on the JPE Website.

The articles in this special issue are placed in the context of the crisis of multilateralism and of the post-war Bretton Woods arrangements that was already in train before the pandemic, with its economic, political and international reverberations, accelerated, widened and deepened it.

• • Radhika Desai, “Introduction: International economic governance in a multipolar world”
  • (Free article) Radhika Desai, “The US vs China: Economic models in the pandemic stress test”
  • (Free article) Efe Can Gürcan, “The construction of “post-hegemonic multipolarity” in Eurasia: A comparative perspective”
  • Tomoo Marukawa, “Export restrictions in the Japan-China-U.S. Trilateral relationship”
  • Yasuhito Moriahra, “Vertical dis-integration and vertical re-integration: Limits to the modern production system”
  • Xiaoming Huang, “Structuring of transborder flows of national industrial Capital: Japan in the 1970s and 1980s, and China in the 2000s and 2010s”

(3) Call for papers. The Japanese Political Economy approaches the study of political economy, global and Japanese economy, and its international relationships. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that draws from multiple theoretical, empirical and methodological perspectives. The journal is a resource for scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners who seek to better understand the contemporary and historical, transnational and internal processes of social and economic change in Japanese, Asia and the world. The Japanese Political Economy is now inviting submissions on following issues: Broader economic theories (including Political economy, Marxian, Heterodox, Keynesian, Evolutionary, Institutional, Developmental, and Feminist Economics); Historical analysis of capitalism (including stages of capitalist development, analyses of world system changes); Theoretical and empirical exploration of current political-economic issues, and regional study of Japan and the global and Asian economy (such as crisis, financial instability, socialism, gender, environment and climate change, poverty and income inequality, unemployment, an ageing population, industrialisation of Asia). Submission Instructions.