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While advances in technology and the internationalization of the economy have led to declining costs in transport and communication, liberalization of trade and financial regimes have increased the flow of goods and capital across national borders. Termed...
- A Comparative Political Economy of Industrial Capitalism
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A THEORY OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM: PRODUCTION CLASS, AND STATE IN A TRANSNATIONAL WORLD Robinson, William I. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2004 200 pp., footnotes and index William Robinson is professor of sociology, global and international studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has earned a reputation as
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The foundation of today’s global capitalism was laid, in the aftermath of World War II, at the Bretton Woods Conference, which took place at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. The conference was attended by delegates from all Allied nations, and its goal was to create a new internationally integrated system of trade...
Ronald Reagan’s presidency is well known as an era of deregulation. Much of the regulation created during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidency, through legislation, administrative bodies, and social welfare, was torn down during Reagan’s reign. This process continued to unfold over the coming decades and is still unfolding today. The approach to ...
On the heels of NAFTA, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was launched in 1995 after many years of negotiation and effectively replaced the GATT. The WTO stewards and promotes neoliberal free trade policies among member nations, and serves as a body for resolving trade disputes between nations. Today, the WTO operates in close concert with the IMF ...
Jan 31, 2024 · To address these questions and gain insight into how global governance adapts to the ‘emergence of a new state capitalist normal’ (Alami et al., 2022), we provide a detailed analysis of shifts and continuities in the ‘Unholy Trinity’s’ discourses and practices across (1) Global Trade and Investment Governance and (2) Global Financial Governance. We are particularly concerned with how ...
Dec 19, 2011 · Robinson WI (2004) A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class, and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Crossref
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Feb 14, 2022 · Abstract. This chapter details the mutually reinforcing relationship between globalization, neoliberalism, and late capitalism. The chapter emphasizes the dialectical and politically determined evolution of all three, explaining how intensifying patterns of competition have resulted in diminishing the power of progressive social forces and increasing the leverage of competitive fractions of ...
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Oct 20, 2020 · Introduction. Dominant approaches to understanding the emergence and development of capitalism within the field of political economy, and the social sciences more generally, tend to focus on expanding trade and markets on the one hand (Wallerstein, Citation 1974, Citation 1980) and the changing nature of the social relations of production on the other (Brenner, Citation 1976, Citation 1977 ...
