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Money for Nothing: Everyday Actors and Monetary Crises

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Broome, André (2009) Money for Nothing: Everyday Actors and Monetary Crises. Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 12 (No. 1). pp. 3-30. doi:10.1057/jird.2008.11

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Abstract

Why do monetary unions fail? Structural approaches that focus on shifts in the distribution of capabilities ascribe non-elites limited agency to influence large-scale political and economic change. Existing agent-centred approaches tend to simplify the social dynamics of the everyday politics of money by concentrating on how elites determine formal changes within monetary systems. Answers to this question from a material-based perspective often point to a breakdown in elite political support, driven by actors’ material incentives to cheat on their multilateral commitments rather than cooperate to overcome the collective action problem that a monetary union entails. Recent ideational perspectives have focused on the role of shared economic ideas among elites, as well as elite struggles over national identity, as crucial ingredients in the construction, maintenance, or failure of a monetary union. While drawing on the insights of rationalist and constructivist theories, this article uses a historical sociology approach to argue that the everyday actions taken by non-elites as survival strategies in a monetary crisis provide an important additional ingredient for understanding monetary system change. This approach is illustrated through a case study of the collapse of the ruble zone monetary union over 1991–1993.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of International Relations and Development
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN: 1581-1980
Official Date: 2009
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Volume: Vol. 12
Number: No. 1
Page Range: pp. 3-30
DOI: 10.1057/jird.2008.11
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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