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Globalization in Question
Paul Hirst
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Description for Globalization in Question
Hardback. 'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the international economy and polity. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the international economy and polity. In both political and academic discussions, the assumption is commonly made that the process of economic globalization is well under way and that this represents a qualitatively new stage in the development of international capitalism. But is there in fact such a thing as a genuinely global economy? Globalization in Question investigates this notion, providing a very different account of the international economy and stressing the possibilities for ... Read more
'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the international economy and polity. In both political and academic discussions, the assumption is commonly made that the process of economic globalization is well under way and that this represents a qualitatively new stage in the development of international capitalism. But is there in fact such a thing as a genuinely global economy? Globalization in Question investigates this notion, providing a very different account of the international economy and stressing the possibilities for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745641515
SKU
V9780745641515
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About Paul Hirst
Paul Hirst (deceased) was Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Grahame Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the Open University. Simon Bromley is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at the Open University.
Reviews for Globalization in Question
"The first edition of Globalization in Question opened up the major debate in globalization studies in the 1990s. Hirst and Thompson's essentially statist challenge to the assumed inexorability of globalisation seemed both provocative, and for the super-territorialists and globalisations true believers, quaintly old fashioned when it appeared. Not so now. The argument, presented in the Hirst, Thompson and Bromley edition ... Read more