IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rripxx/v20y2013i2p256-267.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The material and symbolic construction of the BRICs: Reflections inspired by the RIPE Special Issue

Author

Listed:
  • Marion Fourcade

Abstract

In this short piece, I return to the articles in this special issue to examine the relationship between the material reality of the concept of BRICs and its symbolic place in the world economy today. Aside from the facts that the BRIC countries have been ready to depart from the Washington consensus on certain key elements (state intervention), while maintaining other aspects (fiscal discipline), there isn't much support for the notion that these countries somehow share specific development strategies. If anything, the papers in this special issue show that these four countries have rather different etiologies of growth. The notion of BRICs, I argue, is thus better apprehended through its symbolic and political dimensions, as an effort by well-placed actors in the financial markets to drum up excitement about investment opportunities, as well as reorient the governance structures of the world economy away from the traditional stronghold of Europe.

Suggested Citation

  • Marion Fourcade, 2013. "The material and symbolic construction of the BRICs: Reflections inspired by the RIPE Special Issue," Review of International Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(2), pages 256-267, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:20:y:2013:i:2:p:256-267
    DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2013.779408
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09692290.2013.779408
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09692290.2013.779408?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Raquel Almeida Ramos, 2017. "The Fragility of Emerging Currencies Since the 2000s - a Minskyan Analysis," CEPN Working Papers 2017-18, Centre d'Economie de l'Université de Paris Nord.
    2. repec:hal:cepnwp:hal-01619118 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Acquaye, Adolf & Ibn-Mohammed, Taofeeq & Genovese, Andrea & Afrifa, Godfred A & Yamoah, Fred A & Oppon, Eunice, 2018. "A quantitative model for environmentally sustainable supply chain performance measurement," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 269(1), pages 188-205.
    4. Raquel A Ramos, 2017. "The Fragility of Emerging Currencies Since the 2000s: a Minskyan Analysis," Working Papers hal-01619118, HAL.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rripxx:v:20:y:2013:i:2:p:256-267. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rrip20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.