Globalization and its Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy

Description

Globalization and Its Critics challenges the claim that globalization is a clearly understood phenomena whose effects are well known and easily accounted for. It explores the categories we use to think about globalization, the dynamics which are driving it, and the effects which globalizing tendencies are having on the key institutional features of the contemporary world. The contributors examine not only how globalization is refashioning political and economic institutions, but also the way in which specific forms of knowledge and technology are shaping the ongoing dynamic of globalization. The volume concludes with a review of the issues posed by this important debate. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Philosophical Roots of Globalization and Philosophical Routes to Globalization....Pages 3-66 Globalization in Historical Perspective....Pages 67-90 Globalization and Cultural Political Economy....Pages 91-113 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Restructuring the Political Arena: Globalization and the Paradoxes of the Competition State....Pages 117-138 Recasting Political Authority: Globalization and the State....Pages 139-163 What are Global Markets: The Significance of Networks of Trade?....Pages 164-182 Front Matter....Pages 183-183 Deficit Discourse: The Social Construction of Fiscal Rectitude....Pages 185-203 Technology and Globalization: Assessing Patterns of Interaction....Pages 204-222 Beyond ‘Techno-globalism’ and ‘Techno-nationalism’: Rearticulating the Sites and Stakes of Technological Competitiveness in East Asia....Pages 223-244 Globalization in Perspective....Pages 245-266 Back Matter....Pages 267-292