Essentials of Globalization is a highly useful compact edition of the author's full-scale textbook, Globalization: A Basic Text. The Essentials is written in a style accessible to undergraduates, and draws on both academic and popular sources in its explanations. A highly useful…
Recent, dramatic changes in local and global economies have profoundly affected the lives of millions and have demanded that students of these economies rethink their analytical approaches. In "The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture", noted economic anthropo…
Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have been reversing into the future. They are able neither to reproduce themselves in accordance with past norms, nor to exploit the unprecedented freedom offered by the savings in working time which new technology has generated…
"Globalization is irreversible and irresistible."--Tony Blair This book gives the lie to that claim. Economic globalization has never been an inevitable part of human history. It is eminently reversible and hugely resistible. Greg Buckman argues there are two broad approaches wi…
A new book, written by a leading international expert on China and the global economy, which examines the widely-held belief that China is buying the world China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exc…
A new book, written by a leading international expert on China and the global economy, which examines the widely-held belief that China is buying the world.
Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn; trade, production and finance, the book highlights the relations of power…
by Smith, Tony
fromHistorical materialism book series
Traces a dialectical ordering of positions in the globalisation debate, with later positions interpreted as responses to "immanent contradictions" implicit in earlier ones. The progression culminates in a Marxian framework addressing the contradictions implicit in various forms …
The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the success of From Modernization to Globalization, published by the editors in 2000 and used around the world. It provides an up-to-date primer and key reference for students, scholars, and development practitioners wishing to …
It has become commonplace to acknowledge that there has been an information revolution, transforming both society and the economy. In 1995 the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement aimed to harmonize protection for property in knowledge throughout the global syst…
The end of the Cold War has unleashed unique economic and political forces. Computers are an increasing impetus to the world economy, along with technological developments. This work studies these developments, and others, to survey the approaches to understanding international …
Reinterpreting the role of mainstream feminism, this book shows how the ruling elites of developed countries utilize women's labor and the ideas of women's liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home and abroad
Like a giant oil tanker, the world is slowly turning. The rapid growth of economies in Asia and the global South has led to a momentous shift in the world order, leaving much of the traditional literature on globalization behind. Multipolar Globalization: Emerging Economies and …
