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Chapter 6 Review questions
Chapter 6 Review questions
International Political Economy: Classical Theories
- Are mercantilists right when they assert that the economy should be subordinated to the primary goal of increasing state power?
- Are the Japanese, the Koreans, and the Chinese thinking in mercantilist terms as claimed in Box 6.3?
- What should be the role of the state according to economic liberalism?
- Does international trade today confirm Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage?
- Are the advanced industrialized countries characterized by class struggle as the Marxist view assumes?
- Discuss Lenin's view of 'uneven development' – is it a correct view?
- Does foreign investment in the developing world by the industrialized countries lead to exploitation, as Gunder Frank claims?
- Why do dependency theorists claim that capitalism leads to underdevelopment in the periphery? How does this argument reinterpret Marx’s idea about capitalist exploitation of labour?
- Discuss the pros and cons of Robert Cox's analytical framework as set out in Figure 6.2.
- Will the capitalist world economy always be a hierarchy, as Wallerstein says?
- Marxists maintain that economic power is the basis for political power. Do you agree?