This article explores the significance of ideas, values and collective representations in
shaping political economy by examining the case of free trade in late Victorian and …

The convergence of Free trade liberalism and radicalism was a central feature of British
political culture after Chartism. This article explores the emergence of alternative visions of …

One of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society
and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how …

This article introduces and develops the concept of trade narrative to understand how
business sectors defend against public disapproval and the threat of increased regulation or …

Cultural political economy (CPE) is an approach to political economy that focuses on how
economic systems, and their component parts, are products of specific human, technical …

This chapter is intended to draw attention to a process so basic that it has become
something of a cliché in the social sciences, and yet whose implications and consequences …

Examination of debate within the Conservative party over the principles of free trade. The
complex and troubled relationship between protectionism and Conservatism in nineteenth …

This book started life as a series of conversations–in the hallway, at lunch, over a beer. We
discovered that although we came from somewhat different intellectual traditions and …

The term 'moral economy'has had a varied history before acquiring its present meaning,
mainly through the formative influence of Thompson's (1971) article 'The Moral Economy of …

164 (p ix). He shows that the globalisation debate is the current version of the recurrent
conflict between ideologues and relativists. To understand the globalisation debate, one …