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Author : Kunibert Raffer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349091874
Author : Kunibert Raffer
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312004400
Author : Alf Hornborg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136658495
In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global ‘zero-sum game’ involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for wealthier parts of global society to save time and space at the expense of humans and environments in the poorer parts. We tend to think of the functioning of machines as if it was detached from the social relations of exchange which make machines economically and physically possible (in some areas). But even the steam engine that was the core of the Industrial Revolution in England was indissolubly linked to slave labour and soil erosion in distant cotton plantations. And even as seemingly benign a technology as railways have historically saved time (and accessed space) primarily for those who can afford them, but at the expense of labour time and natural space lost for other social groups with less purchasing power. The existence of technology, in other words, is not a cornucopia signifying general human progress, but the unevenly distributed result of unequal resource transfers that the science of economics is not equipped to perceive. Technology is not simply a relation between humans and their natural environment, but more fundamentally a way of organizing global human society. From the very start it has been a global phenomenon, which has intertwined political, economic and environmental histories in complex and inequitable ways. This book unravels these complex connections and rejects the widespread notion that technology will make the world sustainable. Instead it suggests a radical reform of money, which would be as useful for achieving sustainability as for avoiding financial breakdown. It brings together various perspectives from environmental and economic anthropology, ecological economics, political ecology, world-system analysis, fetishism theory, semiotics, environmental and economic history, and development theory. Its main contribution is a new understanding of technological development and concerns about global sustainability as questions of power and uneven distribution, ultimately deriving from the inherent logic of general-purpose money. It should be of interest to students and professionals with a background or current engagement in anthropology, sustainability studies, environmental history, economic history, or development studies.
Author : R. Scott Frey,Paul K. Gellert,Harry F. Dahms
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319897400
At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal exchange (EUE) from a historical and comparative perspective. The theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that core or northern consumption and capital accumulation is based on peripheral or southern environmental degradation and extraction. In other words, structures of social and environmental inequality between the Global North and Global South are founded in the extraction of materials from, as well as displacement of waste to, the South. This volume represents a set of tightly interlinked papers with the aim to assess ecologically unequal exchange and to move it forward. Chapters are organised into three main sections: theoretical foundations and critical reflections on ecologically unequal exchange; empirical research on mining, deforestation, fisheries, and the like; and strategies for responding to the adverse consequences associated with unequal ecological exchange. Scholars as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from the spirited re-evaluation and extension of ecologically unequal exchange theory, research, and praxis.
Author : George Modelski and Robert A. Denemark
Publisher : EOLSS Publications
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781848262188
World System History is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on World System History presents the study of the history of the world system. World system history offers an array of tools with which to apprehend the future. This volume discuss the essential aspects such as World-Systems Analysis; Big History; Epistemology of World System History: Long-Term Processes and Cycles; One World System or Many: The Continuity Thesis in World System History; World Population History; States Systems and Universal Empires; The Silk Road: Afro-Eurasian Connectivity Across the Ages; Dark Ages in World System History; The Kondratieff Waves as Global Social Processes; Globalization in Historical Perspective; Emergence of a Global Polity; World Urbanization: The Role of Settlement Systems in Human Social Evolution; Democratization: The World-Wide Spread Of Democracy in The Modern Age; The Rise of Global Public Opinion; East Asia In the World System; Incorporating North America into the Eurasian World-System. This volume is aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.
Author : John Brolin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 916287022X
Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000301783
Author : Cécile B. Vigouroux,Salikoko S. Mufwene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108479332
By bridging the gap between linguistics and economics, this book sheds light on a range of mutually valuable topics.
Author : Gernot Kohler,Arno Tausch
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1590330021
Global Keynesianism - Unequal Exchange & Global Exploration
Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 085345499X
Author : Andrea Ricci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000388220
Contrary to the claims made by neoliberal governments and mainstream academics, this book argues that the huge increase in trade in recent decades has not made the world a fairer place: instead, the age of globalization has become a time of mass migration caused by increasing global inequality. The theory of unequal exchange challenges the free trade doctrine, claiming that transfers of value from poorer to richer countries are hidden behind apparently equivalent market transactions. Following a critical review of the existing approaches, the book proposes a general theory of unequal exchange in the light of an innovative reconstruction of Marx’s international law of value, in which money and exchange rates play a crucial role in decoupling value captured from value produced by different countries, even in perfectly competitive world markets. On this theoretical basis, the book provides an empirical analysis of the international transfers of value in both traditional trade and Global Value Chains. The resulting world mapping of unequal exchange shows the geographical hierarchy of capital global exploitation by revealing a world divided into two quite separate camps of donor and receiving countries, the former being the poorer countries and the latter the richer countries. This book is addressed to scholars and students of economics and social sciences, as well as activists of the North and the South, interested in a better understanding of the asymmetric power relations implied in global trade. It makes a significant contribution to the literature on political economy, trade, Marxism, international relations, and economic geography.
Author : Robert C. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199596652
Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
Author : Salvatore J. Babones,Christopher K. Chase-Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415563642
This volume reviews the state of the field of world-systems analysis. World-systems analysts study the structure of the relationships among people, organisations, and states and how those relationships change over time.
Author : Ann Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226318004
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Author : Johan Galtung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000371123
This book, first published in 1973, analyses the European Community in a global perspective. It asks and answers two main questions: what does the European Community mean to the masses of the world, and what does it mean to the world community in general? Most critical studies of the EC were made from an internal point of view, and this book is rare in having an external perspective. The author discussed the EC with diverse audiences in 16 countries, and his analyses are invaluable in putting the European project in an international context.
