Globalization

George Ritzer 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2011년 01월 11일 출간

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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 compact version of Globalization: A Basic Text, which contains the allmajor areas in an accessible and affordable format for undergraduate studentsDevelops a unique perspective on globalization early in the book and uses it throughout to orient and organize discussion of a wide range of topics and parts of the worldIntegrated use of a wide array of sources, including empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, and popular booksDesigned to work as a basic text in globalization courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that include globalization as one of several topics

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Preface.1 Globalization.Conceptualization, Origins, and History.Conceptualizing Globalization.From "Solids" to "Liquids"."Flows"."Heavy" and "Light"."Heavy" Structures that Expedite "Flows"."Heavy" Structures as Barriers to "Flows".Subtler Structural Barriers.Origins and History of Globalization.Hardwired.Cycles.Epochs.Events.Broader, More Recent Changes.Chapter Summary.&2 Theorizing Globalization.Imperialism.Colonialism.Development.Americanization.Anti-Americanism as a Global Process.Neo-Liberalism.Neo-Liberalism: Basic Ideas.The Neo-Liberal State.Critiquing Neo-Liberalism: Karl Polanyi.Contemporary Criticisms of Neo-Liberalism.Neo-Marxian Theories.Transnational Capitalism.Empire.Chapter Summary.&3 Structuring the Global Economy.Before Bretton Woods.A Prior Epoch of Globalization.Economic Development during and after WW II.Bretton Woods and the Bretton Woods System.General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).World Trade Organization (WTO).International Monetary Fund (IMF).World Bank.The End of Bretton Woods.Changes in, and Critiques of, Bretton-Woods-Era Organizations.Other Important Economic Organizations.The Multinational Corporation (MNC).The Myth of Economic Globalization?Chapter Summary.&4 Global Economic Flows.Trade.Trade Surpluses and Deficits.Global Trade: Economic Chains and Networks.Global Value Chains: China and the US.Scrap metal.Waste paper.T-shirts.iPhones.&Increasing Competition for Commodities.The Economic Impact of the Flow of Oil.Oil Wealth.Race to the Bottom and Upgrading.Upgrading in the Less Developed World?Outsourcing.Financial Globalization.The Great Recession.Consumption.Consumer Objects and Services.Consumers.Consumption Processes.Consumption Sites.Global Resistance.Chapter Summary.

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"Even in such a crowded market, this volume does therefore serve as a useful addition to the burgeoning number of textbooks." (Times Higher Education Supplement, 24 February 2011)

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저자(글) George Ritzer

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George Ritzer is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, with awards that include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous books including The McDonaldization of Society (1993, 2011), The Globalization of Nothing (2003, 2007) Globalization: A Basic Text (2010) and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007), The Blackwell Companion to Globalization (2007) and the forthcoming The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. His work has been translated into over 20 languages.