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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271038071
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The New Global Economy in the Information Age : Reflections on Our Changing World written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice K. Currie
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452251185
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Universities and Globalization written by Janice K. Currie and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1998-08-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the contributors consider globalization as combining a market ideology with a corresponding material set of practices drawn from the world of business. Issues of managerialism, privatization and accountability - central values in business - have become central for universities and their administrators as well. The selections in the book help to illustrate the editors' contentions that globalization presents clear disadvantages as well as benefits, and that its effect on higher education is neither likely to be uniform nor the outcomes inevitable.
Author : World Association for Sustainable Development. International Conference
Publisher : eBooks2go, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1907106138
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Sharing Knowledge Making a Difference written by World Association for Sustainable Development. International Conference and published by eBooks2go, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information communications technologies (ICTs) are generally viewed as the new vehicle to redress developmental problems. The book assesses the value of such claims by analyzing the structure and workings of the global political economy (GPE) and its impact on, and prospects for developing countries in the current techno-economic context. The book uses a case study of the Caribbean to illustrate the challenges and opportunities faced by small-island developing states (SIDS) in the new techno-economic paradigm. The question must be asked, can small island developing states such as those of the Caribbean leverage modern ICTs for growth and development against the backdrop of a yawning global digital divide? Hence, the book addresses the central problem of the digital divide and whether emerging ICTs offer any real economic opportunities for the Caribbean region.
Author : Don Robotham
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761940142
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Culture, Society, Economy written by Don Robotham and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Robotham offers here a clear-headed exposé of the limits of classical liberalism in the face of world production today. His theme is both urgent and iconoclastic. There is an unusual clarity about the exposition and a drive that comes from passionate engagement combined with long experience, reading and reflection' - Keith Hart, Goldsmiths College, London In Culture, Society and Economy, Don Robotham examines the failure of recent social theory to grasp the problems of globalization and the emergence of corporate monopoly capital, and sets out his own argument for a radical solution. In , Don Robotham examines the failure of recent social theory to grasp the problems of globalization and the emergence of corporate monopoly capital, and sets out his own argument for a radical solution. He argues that the neglect of economics by both cultural studies and social theory has weakened the ability to develop viable alternatives to present day capitalist globalization. With deep awareness of, and reference to, current events and contemporary trends, the author presents a detailed critique of: - cultural studies, in particular Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy; - Giddens' theory of 'risk society'; - Scott Lash and John Urry's 'economies of signs and space'; - Manuel Castells' theory of 'network society'. The final chapters make a unique argument that the solution to the problems of globalization lies in more globalization rather than adopting an anti-globalization or 'localization' position. Don Robotham proposes more effective centralized institutions for governing the world economy, in other words - world government.
Author : Gerald Sussman
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803951402
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age written by Gerald Sussman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-09-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Sussman offers a detailed critical analysis of the political dimensions of 21st century communication/information technologies, mass media and transnational networks.
Author : M. Niemann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596967
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book A Spatial Approach to Regionalisms in the Global Economy written by M. Niemann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author challenges the traditional manner in which regionalization has been approached and suggests that the failure to come to grips with this phenomenon is the result of the modernist regulation of space to margins of analysis. He advances instead a spatially orientated approach which views states as one of multiple layers of a global social space. Regionalization represents the construction of new layers in an effort to search for an institutional fix to the challenges of globalization.
Author : David Tyfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113658742X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Science: A Critical Realist Overview written by David Tyfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "economics of science". Whether broadly in favour or against these changes, the vast majority of these frameworks employ ahistorical analyses that cannot conceptualise, let alone address, the questions of "why have these changes occurred?" and "why now?" Nor, therefore, can they offer much insight into the crucial question of future trends. Given the growing importance of science and innovation in an age of both a globalizing knowledge-based economy (itself in crisis) and enormous challenges that demand scientific and technological responses, these are significant gaps in our understanding of important contemporary social processes. This book argues that the fundamental underlying problem in all cases is the ontological shallowness of these theories, which can only be remedied by attention to ontological presuppositions. Conversely, a critical realist approach affords the integration of a realist political economy into the analysis of the economics of science that does afford explicit attention to these crucial questions; a ‘cultural political economy of research and innovation’ (CPERI). Accordingly, the book sets out an introduction to the existing literature on the economics of science together with novel discussion of the field from a critical realist perspective. In arguing thus across levels of abstraction, however, the book also explores how concerted engagement with substantive social enquiry and theoretical debate develops and strengthens critical realism as a philosophical project, rather than simply ‘applying’ it. Divided into two volumes, in this first volume the book explores the ‘top’ and ‘tail’ of the argument, regarding substantive and philosophical aspects. Starting with substantive illustrations, we explore the social challenges associated with the contemporary commercialization of science and the movement towards a knowledge-based bio-economy. Having shown the explanatory benefits of assuming a realist political economy perspective, the book then turns to the task of reconstructing and justifying that theoretical perspective. True to the overall argument regarding attention to ontological presuppositions, this starts with critical realism’s critique of mainstream economics but also develops critical realism itself towards what may be called a ‘transcendental constructivism’.
Author : Sheila Slaughter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401622
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Academic Capitalism and the New Economy written by Sheila Slaughter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As colleges and universities become more entrepreneurial in a post-industrial economy, they focus on knowledge less as a public good than as a commodity to be capitalized on in profit-oriented activities. In Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, higher education scholars Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades detail the aggressive engagement of U.S. higher education institutions in the knowledge-based economy and analyze the efforts of colleges and universities to develop, market, and sell research products, educational services, and consumer goods in the private marketplace. Slaughter and Rhoades track changes in policy and practice, revealing new social networks and circuits of knowledge creation and dissemination, as well as new organizational structures and expanded managerial capacity to link higher education institutions and markets. They depict an ascendant academic capitalist knowledge/learning regime expressed in faculty work, departmental activity, and administrative behavior. Clarifying the regime's internal contradictions, they note the public subsidies embedded in new revenue streams and the shift in emphasis from serving student customers to leveraging resources from them. Defining the terms of academic capitalism in the new economy, this groundbreaking study offers essential insights into the trajectory of American higher education.
Author : James Gee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429975759
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The New Work Order written by James Gee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a sociocultural approach to language, literacy, and learning that deals directly with the new work order and that integrates concern for schools with concern for workplaces. It helps readers to confront complex problems and to construct their own broader theories.
Author : Lankshear, Colin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335196365
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Changing Literacies written by Lankshear, Colin and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have observed and analysed the components of social abilities and how they influence, through language and literacy the likely outcome of the lives and identities of individuals and groups.
Author : Parminder Bhachu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134908636
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Designs written by Parminder Bhachu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late-1990s Britain, the salwaar-kameez or 'Punjabi suit' emerged as a high-fashion garment. Popular both on the catwalk and on the street, it made front-page news when worn by Diana, Princess of Wales and by Cherie Booth, the wife of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. In her ethnography of the local and global design economies established by Asian women fashion entrepreneurs, Parminder Bhachu focuses on the transformation of the salwaar-kameez from negatively coded 'ethnic clothing' to a global garment fashionable both on the margins and in the mainstream. Exploring the design and sewing businesses, shops and street fashions in which this revolution has taken place, she shows how the salwaar-kameez is today at the heart of new economic micro-markets which themselves represent complex, powerfully coded means of cultural dialogue and racial politics. The innovative designs of second-generation British Asian women are drawn from characteristically improvisational migrant cultural codes. Through their hybrid designs and creation of new aesthetics, these women cross cultural boundaries, battling with racism and redefining both Asian and British identities. At the same time, their border-crossing commercial entrepreneurship produces new diaspora economies which give them control over many economic, aesthetic, cultural and technological resources. In this way, the processes of global capitalism are gendered, racialized and localized through the interventions of diasporic women from the margins.
Author : Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134753314
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Transnational Corporations written by Grazia Ietto-Gillies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the geography of international production, covering both theoretical and empirical aspects.
Author : Gedeon M. Mudacumura
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482270986
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Development Policy Studies written by Gedeon M. Mudacumura and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the current challenges to human progress, this reference book examines recent theories, policies, and sectoral priorities, as well as various social, economic, and administrative factors that impact worldwide modernization and development. The book emphasizes the fact that communities must evaluate continuously and adjust their program
Author : Sakkarin Niyomsilpa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317741072
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of Telecommunicatons Reforms in Thailand written by Sakkarin Niyomsilpa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the changing character of state-society relations in contemporary Thailand, using the telecommunications industry as a case study. It examines the privatization and gradual reforms of the 1980s and 1990s and the political dynamics behind these policies, as well as conflicts and co-operation among the various players and their interests. The book also covers bureaucratic and political corruption and their implications for Thailand's political democratization and economic liberalization. It argues not only that the bureaucracy is no longer the dominant power in Thai politics, but also that the country has moved towards a more pluralistic socio-political system in which a broadly-based liberalization coalition has emerged.
Author : Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313370605
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers written by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International relations at large and Africa's in particular are shaped by the actors' historical location, by what they offer economically and culturally, and by who they are socially. In international relations nations tend to deal with objective conditions as they are or as they are perceived. However, Lumumba-Kasongo demonstrates through case-studies of Liberia and Zaire/Congo that what the objective conditions are may not necessarily be what they ought to be in the national development process. The international struggle for power between the West and the East and their supportive brutal and oppressive states in the South, especially in Africa, created the extremely weak conditions that redefined international relations as the tools of domination, rather than the tools of understanding and cooperation. As Lumumba-Kasongo clarifies, Africa did not gain economically or developmentally from this struggle. An important work for scholars and researchers of contemporary Africa and international relations in general.
Author : E. Pang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 140391852X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The International Political Economy of Transformation in Argentina, Brazil and Chile Since 1960 written by E. Pang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how the three most important countries in South America have responded to the challenges of globalization since the mid-1960s, the first OPEC price hike, the Third World debt crisis leading to the 'lost-decade' for the continent, and finally bold, but often ill-planned, neo-liberal reforms of the 1990s. Latin America will experience another cycle of structural changes in the coming decades, as the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s failed to produce the desired effects; social justice, fair income distribution, sustainable growth, and consolidation of democracy.
Author : Paul Doremus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691010076
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Global Corporation written by Paul Doremus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common perception of multinational corporations is that they are creating an overwhelmingly powerful market and are rendering national borders obsolete. Using data from the US, Japan and Europe, this book argues that such a view is incorrect.
