Global Formation: Structures of the World Economy - Couverture rigide

Chase-Dunn, Christopher K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1557860114 ISBN 13 : 9781557860118

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

In this volume, complementary to Immanuel Wallerstein's "The Modern World-System",Christopher Chase-Dunn addresses theoretical questions r aised in the analysis of the capitalist world-economy and reviews recent r esearch which bears on these questions. He formulates a structuralist a pproach , reframing Marx's theory of capitalist accumulation to incorporate the processes of class formation and state building. The book compares a model of World-system cycles and trends with the notion of stages of capitalism, discusses the processes behind the rise and fall of hegemonic core states, and the dependent interaction between capitalist accumulation and geopolitics. As well, the book reviews recent literature on the reproduction of the core/periphery hierarchy, trends in the magnitude of international inequalities and cycles which affect the core/periphery relationship. The book also includes a discussion of methodological difficulties encountered in the empirical study of world-system processes. It is an effort to take the world-system perspective beyond historical interpretation to an explicitly structuralist theorization which can be evaluated by comparative research. The volume is aimed at scholars and graduate students in sociology, politics, geography and anthropology.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The fall of communism, the emergence of _the information age,_ and the expansion of economic globalism are the points of departure for this new edition of ChaseDunn's landmark book. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change, extending the influential model that drew wide attention to this awardwinning book. The new edition also evaluates recent major studies of the modern worldsystem and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1557860114
• ISBN 13: 9781557860118
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible