Nationalism and the Economy: Explorations into a Neglected Relationship

Published by Central European University Press 2019

Nationalism and the Economy

Explorations into a Neglected Relationship

Edited by: Stefan Berger and Thomas Fetzer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633861998

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About this book

This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing "economic nationalism" as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic 'nation-building', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic "nationness"—from national economic symbols and memories, to the "banal" world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and its findings point to the need to give economic phenomena a more prominent place in the field of nationalism studies. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others employ a comparative method. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although, on balance, the majority of our authors deal with European countries.

Author / Editor information

Berger Stefan :

Stefan Berger is professor of social history at Ruhr University Bochum and the director of the Institute for Social Movements, RUB.

Fetzer Thomas :

Thomas Fetzer is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Central European University, Budapest.

Reviews

Peter Rutland:
"Stefan Berger and Thomas Fetzer have assembled a team of a dozen authors to tackle the question, through a mixture of literature reviews and case studies. They rightly argue that nationalism scholars tend to focus on state power and cultural representation at the expense of economics, while economists in turn largely overlook the question of nationalism. One of the central arguments in the book is that economic nationalism should be understood as a broader phenomenon than mere protectionism—the creation of tariff and other barriers to deter foreign trade and investment."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Stefan Berger and Thomas Fetzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Surveys
Historians, Nationalism Studies, and the Economy Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Nationalism in Political Economy Scholarship Thomas Fetzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Part II: Case Studies
Visions of Europe: European Integration and its Origins in Nineteenth Century Economic Thinking About Nation-Building Harold James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Theoretical and Historical Reflections on Economic Nationalism in Germany and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Andreas Etges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Land Regimes in Nation-Building Processes and Nation-States: The Case of Israel in Comparative Perspective Jacob Metzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Disparities and Economic Nationhood in Yugoslavia Žarko Lazarević Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Pro-Urban Welfare in an Agricultural Country? Economic Nationalism and Welfare Regime Problems of Fit: Lessons from Interwar Romania Sergiu Delcea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Nationalizing Consumption: Products, Brands, and Nations Oliver Kühschelm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Nation Branding and Nationalism Mads Mordhorst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
National Interests and Foreign Direct Investment in East-Central Europe After 1989 Vera Šćepanović Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Economic Nationhood and International Migration: The Case of China Pál Nyíri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Part III: Beyond the Nation?
Embedding the Social Question into International Order: Economic Thought and the Origins of Neoliberalism in the 1930s Hagen Schulz-Forberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Economic Europeanness Thomas Fetzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 324
Keywords: Nation-building; Nationalism; Political economy; Transition economies; Economic history

eBook

Published: January 10, 2019
ISBN: 9789633861998