Globalization and Economy
Central Currents in Globalization is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours of a field that now crosses the boundaries of all the older disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a gold-standard collection of over 320 of the most important writings on globalization, structured around four interrelated themes: Violence; Economy; Culture; and Politics.

The series editor, Paul James (RMIT, Australia), is joined by sixteen internationally-renowned co-editors from around the globe who bring their subject expertise to each volume, including Jonathan Friedman, Tom Nairn, R.R. Sharma, Manfred Steger, Ronen Palan and Micheline Ishay. Together the four sets provide an unparalleled resource on globalization, providing both broad coverage of the subject, historical depth and contemporary relevance.
1100612869
Globalization and Economy
Central Currents in Globalization is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours of a field that now crosses the boundaries of all the older disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a gold-standard collection of over 320 of the most important writings on globalization, structured around four interrelated themes: Violence; Economy; Culture; and Politics.

The series editor, Paul James (RMIT, Australia), is joined by sixteen internationally-renowned co-editors from around the globe who bring their subject expertise to each volume, including Jonathan Friedman, Tom Nairn, R.R. Sharma, Manfred Steger, Ronen Palan and Micheline Ishay. Together the four sets provide an unparalleled resource on globalization, providing both broad coverage of the subject, historical depth and contemporary relevance.
1188.0 In Stock
Globalization and Economy

Globalization and Economy

Globalization and Economy
Add to Wishlist
Globalization and Economy

Globalization and Economy

Overview

Central Currents in Globalization is an integrated collection of four multi-volume sets that represent the systematic mapping of globalization studies. The series sets out the contours of a field that now crosses the boundaries of all the older disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The result is a gold-standard collection of over 320 of the most important writings on globalization, structured around four interrelated themes: Violence; Economy; Culture; and Politics.

The series editor, Paul James (RMIT, Australia), is joined by sixteen internationally-renowned co-editors from around the globe who bring their subject expertise to each volume, including Jonathan Friedman, Tom Nairn, R.R. Sharma, Manfred Steger, Ronen Palan and Micheline Ishay. Together the four sets provide an unparalleled resource on globalization, providing both broad coverage of the subject, historical depth and contemporary relevance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412919524
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 06/18/2007
Series: Central Currents in Globalization
Edition description: Four-Volume Set
Pages: 1832
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul James is Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT in Australia, an editor of Arena Journal, and on the Council of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. He has received a number of awards including the Japan-Australia Foundation Fellowship, an Australian Research Council Fellowship, and the Crisp Medal by the Australasian Political Studies Association for the best book in the field of political studies. He is author/editor of many books including, Nation Formation: Towards a Theory of Abstract Community (Sage Publications, 1996). His latest books are Global Matrix: Nationalism, Globalism and State-Terrorism (Pluto, 2005), and Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism: Bringing Theory Back In (Sage Publications, 2006). His interests are threefold: first, globalism, nationalism and localism, including the changing nature of the nation-state and the effects of an emergent level of global integration; second, social theory with a concentration on theories of culture, community and social formation; and third, contemporary politics and society with an emphasis on debates over technology and social change.

With

John Tulloch is Professor of Sociology at Brunel University, UK. His research and publications have ranged from film and television studies and theatre through literary theory to history and sociology. His work in film and television theory has shifted from historical analysis to more current production/audience analyses of popular television, such as Australian soap opera and British TV science fiction. Notable influences on his work have been Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall and more recently Ulrick Beck.

Peter Mandaville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs and Co-Director of Mason's Center for Global Studies. He has authored numerous book chapters and journal articles, contributed to publications such as the International Herald Tribune and The New Republic, and consulted extensively for media, government and non-profit agencies. Much of his recent work has focused on the comparative study of religious authority and social movements in the Muslim world. His current research includes projects on Muslim leadership in the West and the relationship between globalization and development.

Imre Szemán is Senator William Mc Master Chair of Globalization and Cultural Studies at Mc Master University. He is the founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the Cultural Studies Association (U.S.). His main areas of research are globalization, visual cultural studies, contemporary popular culture and social and cultural theory. He has published more than fifty articles and book chapters on a range of topics.

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Academic Director of the Globalism Institute at RMIT University. He is also Program Leader of 'Globalization and Culture', in the Global Cities Institute at RMIT University. He has delivered many lectures on globalization, ideology, and nonviolence in the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. He serves on several editorial boards of academic journals as well as on the advisory boards of several globalization research centers around the world.

Table of Contents

Volume One - Edited by Paul James and Barry Gills
Globalizing Markets and Capitalism
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL MARKET
World System Cycles, Crises and Hegemonial Shifts, 1700BC to 1700AD - B K Gills and A G Frank
The Shape of the World System in the 13th Century - Janet Abu-Lughod
Trade Globalization since 1795 - Christopher Chase-Dunne, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin D Brewer
Waves of Integration in the World System
PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION AND THE MODERN CAPITALIST MARKET
Restarting Globalization after World War Two - Shale Horowitz
Structure, Coalitions and the Cold War
The Global Economy in the Bush Era - Fred Block
The Causes of Globalization - Geoffrey Garrett
Globalization and Its Disconnects - Simon Teitel
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE COMING OF A 'BORDERLESS WORLD'?
Where Borders Fall in a Borderless World - Kenichi Omae
Capital, State and Space - Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
Contesting the Borderless World
Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy - Saskia Sassen
The Myth of a 'Global' Economy - J Zysman
Enduring National Foundations and Emerging Regional Realities
PART FOUR: DEBATING GLOBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY
Industrial Convergence, Globalization and the Persistence of the North-South Divide - Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J Silver and Benjamin D Brewer
World Inequality and Globalization - Bob Sutcliffe
Does Globalization Hurt the Poor? - Pierre-Richard Ag[ac]enor
The Diffusion of Prosperity and Peace by Globalization - Eric Weede
PART FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONS
The Future of Globalization - Paul Hurst and Graeme Thompson
Global Capitalism and the State - Jan Aart Scholte
Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System - Immanuel Wallerstein
Volume Two - Edited by Paul James and Heikki Patom[um]aki
Globalizing Finance and the New Economy
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM THE GOLD STANDARD TO A NEW ERA OF GLOBAL FINANCE
The International System - Karl Polanyi
Globalization of Capital and the Theory of Imperialism - Prabhat Patnaik
The Transnational Debt Architecture and Emerging Markets - Susanne Soederberg
The Politics of Paradoxes and Punishment
Globalization in Search of a Future - Pascal Petit and Luc Soete
PART TWO: GLOBAL FUTURES AND DERIVATIVES
Derivatives - Jakob Arnoldi
Virutal Values and Real Risks
Global Microstructures - Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger
The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets
The Schumpeterian Role of Financial Innovations in the New Economy's Business Cycle - Charles G Leathers and J Patrick Raines
PART THREE: GLOBAL FINANCE AS A DOMINANT ECONOMY?
Accounting for Globalization - Cameron Graham and Dean Neu
Globalization and Electronic Commerce - Steve Globerman, Thomas W Roehl and Stephen Standifird
Inferences from Retail Brokering
Are Offshore Financial Centres the Product of Global Markets? A Sociological Response - Matthew Donaghy and Michael Clarke
Passing Judgement - Timothy Sinclair
Credit Rating Process as Regulatory Mechanisms of Governance in the Emerging World Order
PART FOUR: DEBATING THE REGULATION AND TAXATION OF GLOBAL CAPITAL
The Globalization of Taxation? Electronic Commerce and the Transformation of the State - Roland Paris
Globalization and Justice - Jon Mandle
The Tobin Tax - Heikki Patom[um]aki
A New Phase in the Politics of Globalization?
Capital Mobility, Capital Controls and Globalization in the 21st Century - Sebastian Edwards
PART FIVE: (OTHER) CRITICAL PROJECTIONS
Global Crisis - John Hinkson
Political Economy and beyond
Solving Sovereign Debt Overhang by Internationalizing Chapter 9 Procedures - Kunibert Raffer
Beyond the Tobin Tax - Myron Frankman
Global Democracy and a Global Currency
Regulating Economic Globalization - Ash Amin
Volume Three - Edited by Paul James and Ronen Palan
Globalizing Economic Regimes and Institutions
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE RISE OF GLOBAL AGREEMENTS AND CORPORATE BODIES
Reconstituting the Global Public Domain - John Gerard Ruggie
Issues, Actors and Practices
New Constitutionalism, Democratization and Global Political Economy - Stephen Gill
The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism - Daniel Levi-Faur
PART TWO: CORPORATIONS, MARKETS AND GLOBALIZATION
Alliances and Networks - R Gulati
Flexible Specialization versus Post-Fordism - P Hirst and J Zeitlin
Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications
Corporate Governance and Globalization - Mary O'Sullivan
PART THREE: STATE, LAW AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
Governing Globalization - John W Cioffi
The State, Law and Structural Change in Corporate Governance
Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State? Preliminary Remarks on Post-Fordist Political Economy - Bob Jessop
Tax Havens and the Commercialization of State Sovereignty - Ronen Palan
Breaking Frames - Gunther Teubner
Economic Globalization and the Emergence of Lex Mercatoria
Globalization, Tax Competition and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State - R S Avi-Yonah
PART FOUR: DEBATING GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
Economic Globalization and Institutions of Global Governance - Keith Griffin
Why Economic Globalization Is Not Enough - Graham Harrison
Globalization and Global Economic Governance - Martin Wolf
PART FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONS: TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND GLOBALIZATION
The Institutional Requirements of the WTO in an Era of Globalization - Jens Ladegfoged Mortensen
Imperfections in the Global Economic Polity
Capital-Market Liberalization, Globalization and the IMF - Joseph E Stigliz
How Powerful Are Transnational Elite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum - Jean-Christophe Graz
From the Top-Down - Jacqueline Best
The New Financial Architecture and the Re-Embedding of Global Finance
Volume Four - Edited by Paul James and Robert O'Brien
Globalizing Labour
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE RISE OF A GLOBAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
Wealth of Nations (Chapters 1-3) - Adam Smith
World Scale Patterns of Labour-Capital Conflict - Beverly Silver
Labor Unrest, Long Waves and Cycles of Hegemony
Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past - Jeffrey G Williamson
Rethinking the International Division of Labour in the Context of Globalization - James H Mittelman
PART TWO: GLOBAL LABOUR DIVIDES: CLASS, GENDER AND RACE
The Transnational Capitalist Class and Global Politics - Leslie Sklair
Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work during Global Restructuring - Jean L Pyle and Kathryn B Ward
Racial Assumptions in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply - Randolph B Persaud
Rethinking Globalization - Philip Mc Michael
The Agrarian Question Revisited
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND LABOUR MOBILITY
Neo-Liberalism and the Regulation of Global Labor Mobility - Henk Overbeek
Labor versus Globalization - George Ross
Labour Migration - David Ellerman
A Developmental Path or Low Level Trap?
Labor Internationalism and the Contradictions of Globalization - Andrew Herod
Or, Why the Local Is Sometimes Still Important in a Global Economy
PART FOUR: DEBATING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND LABOUR
Workers and World Order - Robert O'Brien
The Tentative Transformation of the International Union Movement
Adventures of Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges International Unionism - Peter Waterman
Decent Work - Leah F Vosko
The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice
PART FIVE CRITICAL PROJECTIONS
Power Repetoires and Globalization - Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward
Responsibility and Global Labor Justice - Iris Marion Young
Southern Unionism and the New Labour Internationalism - Rob Lambert and Eddie Webster
Globalization, Labor and the Polanyi Problem - Ronaldo Munck
From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Related Subjects

Current Affairs & Politics
Business
Diplomacy & International Relations
Economics & Politics
Economics
International Business
Foreign Economic Relations
International Economics
Foreign Economic Relations - General & miscellaneous
Globalization
Current Affairs & Politics
Business
Diplomacy & International Relations
Economics & Politics
Economics
International Business
Foreign Economic Relations
International Economics
Foreign Economic Relations - General & miscellaneous
Globalization

Customer Reviews