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Globalization and Economy

Four Volume Set
Edited by:
  • Paul James - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

June 2007 | 1 832 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Central Currents in Globalization Series

The concept of 'globalization' has in an extraordinarily short time become the dominant motif of the contemporary social sciences. 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.

Key Features:
  • Compiles the most important English-language articles and translations in the various sub-themes of globalization
  • Combines contemporary and classic pieces, together with some lesser-known works that have nevertheless made a major contribution
  • Represents the vast range of cultural, philosophical, and political approaches, both within and beyond the dominant British and North American traditions
  • Each volume employs the same accessible structure: Historical Developments, Key Debates, and Critical Projections
  • Each volume is introduced by an accessible and broad-ranging 10,000 word overview, and each section is prefaced by short contextualizations of the chosen articles  

Set 2: Globalization and Economy
Edited by Paul James, with Barry Gills, Heikki Patomäki, Ronen Palan and Robert O'Brien

Volume 1: Global Markets and Capitalism (with Barry Gills, University of Newcastle, UK) examines the relationship between global trade, commodity relations, and economic development and covers mainstream takes on economic globalization as well as the two major radical approaches to global markets, world systems theory and dependency theory

Volume 2: Global Finance and the New Global Economy (with Heikki Patomäki, Helsinki University, Finland) focuses on globalization and money, finance, and taxation, linking it to the new form of knowledge-based economies

Volume 3: Global Economic Institutions (with Ronen Palan, University of Sussex, UK) examines the global institutions and forums of economic governance—the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, and the World Economic Forum

Volume 4: Globalizing Labor and Global Class (with Robert O'Brien, McMaster University, Canada) considers the changing nature of class and labor from the nineteenth century to the present, including the rise of a global labor movement

Each volume is introduced by a contextualizing essay written by Paul James and the co-editor.

Edited by Paul James and Barry Gills
Volume One
Globalizing Markets and Capitalism

 
 
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL MARKET
B K Gills and A G Frank
World System Cycles, Crises and Hegemonial Shifts, 1700BC to 1700AD
Janet Abu-Lughod
The Shape of the World System in the 13th Century
Christopher Chase-Dunne, Yukio Kawano and Benjamin D Brewer
Trade Globalization since 1795
Waves of Integration in the World System

 
 
PART TWO: GLOBALIZATION AND THE MODERN CAPITALIST MARKET
Shale Horowitz
Restarting Globalization after World War Two
Structure, Coalitions and the Cold War

 
Fred Block
The Global Economy in the Bush Era
Geoffrey Garrett
The Causes of Globalization
Simon Teitel
Globalization and Its Disconnects
 
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE COMING OF A 'BORDERLESS WORLD'?
Kenichi Omae
Where Borders Fall in a Borderless World
Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
Capital, State and Space
Contesting the Borderless World

 
Saskia Sassen
Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy
J Zysman
The Myth of a 'Global' Economy
Enduring National Foundations and Emerging Regional Realities

 
 
PART FOUR: DEBATING GLOBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY
Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J Silver and Benjamin D Brewer
Industrial Convergence, Globalization and the Persistence of the North-South Divide
Bob Sutcliffe
World Inequality and Globalization
Pierre-Richard Ag[ac]enor
Does Globalization Hurt the Poor?
Eric Weede
The Diffusion of Prosperity and Peace by Globalization
 
PART FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONS
Paul Hurst and Graeme Thompson
The Future of Globalization
Jan Aart Scholte
Global Capitalism and the State
Immanuel Wallerstein
Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System
Edited by Paul James and Heikki Patom[um]aki
Volume Two
Globalizing Finance and the New Economy

 
 
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT: FROM THE GOLD STANDARD TO A NEW ERA OF GLOBAL FINANCE
Karl Polanyi
The International System
Prabhat Patnaik
Globalization of Capital and the Theory of Imperialism
Susanne Soederberg
The Transnational Debt Architecture and Emerging Markets
The Politics of Paradoxes and Punishment

 
Pascal Petit and Luc Soete
Globalization in Search of a Future
 
PART TWO: GLOBAL FUTURES AND DERIVATIVES
Jakob Arnoldi
Derivatives
Virutal Values and Real Risks

 
Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger
Global Microstructures
The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets

 
Charles G Leathers and J Patrick Raines
The Schumpeterian Role of Financial Innovations in the New Economy's Business Cycle
 
PART THREE: GLOBAL FINANCE AS A DOMINANT ECONOMY?
Cameron Graham and Dean Neu
Accounting for Globalization
Steve Globerman, Thomas W Roehl and Stephen Standifird
Globalization and Electronic Commerce
Inferences from Retail Brokering

 
Matthew Donaghy and Michael Clarke
Are Offshore Financial Centres the Product of Global Markets? A Sociological Response
Timothy Sinclair
Passing Judgement
Credit Rating Process as Regulatory Mechanisms of Governance in the Emerging World Order

 
 
PART FOUR: DEBATING THE REGULATION AND TAXATION OF GLOBAL CAPITAL
Roland Paris
The Globalization of Taxation? Electronic Commerce and the Transformation of the State
Jon Mandle
Globalization and Justice
Heikki Patom[um]aki
The Tobin Tax
A New Phase in the Politics of Globalization?

 
Sebastian Edwards
Capital Mobility, Capital Controls and Globalization in the 21st Century
 
PART FIVE: (OTHER) CRITICAL PROJECTIONS
John Hinkson
Global Crisis
Political Economy and beyond

 
Kunibert Raffer
Solving Sovereign Debt Overhang by Internationalizing Chapter 9 Procedures
Myron Frankman
Beyond the Tobin Tax
Global Democracy and a Global Currency

 
Ash Amin
Regulating Economic Globalization
Edited by Paul James and Ronen Palan
Volume Three
Globalizing Economic Regimes and Institutions

 
 
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE RISE OF GLOBAL AGREEMENTS AND CORPORATE BODIES
John Gerard Ruggie
Reconstituting the Global Public Domain
Issues, Actors and Practices

 
Stephen Gill
New Constitutionalism, Democratization and Global Political Economy
Daniel Levi-Faur
The Global Diffusion of Regulatory Capitalism
 
PART TWO: CORPORATIONS, MARKETS AND GLOBALIZATION
R Gulati
Alliances and Networks
P Hirst and J Zeitlin
Flexible Specialization versus Post-Fordism
Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications

 
Mary O'Sullivan
Corporate Governance and Globalization
 
PART THREE: STATE, LAW AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
John W Cioffi
Governing Globalization
The State, Law and Structural Change in Corporate Governance

 
Bob Jessop
Towards a Schumpeterian Workfare State? Preliminary Remarks on Post-Fordist Political Economy
Ronen Palan
Tax Havens and the Commercialization of State Sovereignty
Gunther Teubner
Breaking Frames
Economic Globalization and the Emergence of Lex Mercatoria

 
R S Avi-Yonah
Globalization, Tax Competition and the Fiscal Crisis of the Welfare State
 
PART FOUR: DEBATING GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
Keith Griffin
Economic Globalization and Institutions of Global Governance
Graham Harrison
Why Economic Globalization Is Not Enough
Martin Wolf
Globalization and Global Economic Governance
 
PART FIVE: CRITICAL PROJECTIONS: TRANSNATIONAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND GLOBALIZATION
Jens Ladegfoged Mortensen
The Institutional Requirements of the WTO in an Era of Globalization
Imperfections in the Global Economic Polity

 
Joseph E Stigliz
Capital-Market Liberalization, Globalization and the IMF
Jean-Christophe Graz
How Powerful Are Transnational Elite Clubs? The Social Myth of the World Economic Forum
Jacqueline Best
From the Top-Down
The New Financial Architecture and the Re-Embedding of Global Finance

 
Edited by Paul James and Robert O'Brien
Volume Four
Globalizing Labour

 
 
PART ONE: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS: THE RISE OF A GLOBAL DIVISION OF LABOUR
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations (Chapters 1-3)
Beverly Silver
World Scale Patterns of Labour-Capital Conflict
Labor Unrest, Long Waves and Cycles of Hegemony

 
Jeffrey G Williamson
Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past
James H Mittelman
Rethinking the International Division of Labour in the Context of Globalization
 
PART TWO: GLOBAL LABOUR DIVIDES: CLASS, GENDER AND RACE
Leslie Sklair
The Transnational Capitalist Class and Global Politics
Jean L Pyle and Kathryn B Ward
Recasting Our Understanding of Gender and Work during Global Restructuring
Randolph B Persaud
Racial Assumptions in Global Labor Recruitment and Supply
Philip McMichael
Rethinking Globalization
The Agrarian Question Revisited

 
 
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION AND LABOUR MOBILITY
Henk Overbeek
Neo-Liberalism and the Regulation of Global Labor Mobility
George Ross
Labor versus Globalization
David Ellerman
Labour Migration
A Developmental Path or Low Level Trap?

 
Andrew Herod
Labor Internationalism and the Contradictions of Globalization
Or, Why the Local Is Sometimes Still Important in a Global Economy

 
 
PART FOUR: DEBATING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND LABOUR
Robert O'Brien
Workers and World Order
The Tentative Transformation of the International Union Movement

 
Peter Waterman
Adventures of Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges International Unionism
Leah F Vosko
Decent Work
The Shifting Role of the ILO and the Struggle for Global Social Justice

 
 
PART FIVE CRITICAL PROJECTIONS
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A Cloward
Power Repetoires and Globalization
Iris Marion Young
Responsibility and Global Labor Justice
Rob Lambert and Eddie Webster
Southern Unionism and the New Labour Internationalism
Ronaldo Munck
Globalization, Labor and the Polanyi Problem

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