Alternative Capitalisms: Geographies of emerging regions / Edition 1

by Robert Gwynne, Denis Shaw, Thomas Klak

Overview

The Geography of Emerging Regions provides an in-depth and stimulating introduction to the histories and contemporary development problems of the non-core countries of the world economy. Dramatic shifts in economic policy and the nature of political institutions have occurred in these countries over the past decade, much more substantial than those experienced within advanced economies. Here, the authors assess the impact of these shifts at different scales of analysis, from the supranational to the local.



Drawing on the experience of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America and East Asia in particular, the authors seek to illuminate the many contradictions in contemporary discourse on the so-called 'emerging regions', and look forward to the future and the type of world that might develop away from the core advanced economies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340763216
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/30/2003
Series:	A Hodder Arnold Publication Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Gwynne is Reader in Latin American Studies at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Thomas Klak is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Miami Univeristy - Oxford, Ohio, USA

Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography at the School of Geography & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK

Table of Contents

PREFACE
PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 1: "EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES" AND ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION
Chapter 2: CONCEPTUALIZING THE WORLD SYSTEM
Chapter 3: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND THE EMERGING
WORLD: AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
PART TWO: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS
Chapter 4: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE
FORMER SOVIET UNION
Chapter 5: CAPITALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE
CARIBBEAN
Chapter 6: EAST ASIA: THE JAPANESE AND CHINESE
DEVELOPMENT MODELS AND THEIR REGIONAL IMPACTS
PART THREE: ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE
Chapter 7: TRADE LIBERALIZATION, ECONOMIC
TRANSFORMATION AND INTEGRATION
Chapter 8: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
Chapter 9: THE TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION AND
EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
Chapter 10: GEOGRAPHIES OF TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
IN EMERGING MARKET COUNTRIES
Chapter 11: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE GROWTH OF
SERVICES
PART FOUR: POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF CHANGE
Chapter 12: MODERNITY AND NATIONALITY
Chapter 13: MODERNITY AND DEMOCRACY
Chapter 14: CONCLUSION: ALTERNATIVE CAPITALISMS
AND GLOBALIZATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editorial Reviews

'The book fills an important niche, providing students with a rich and detailed account of the challenges faced by emerging
economies in terms of economic development and democratisation in a global economy that is increasingly dominated by the
world's core countries. The authors show how economics, politics, culture and historical legacies are interacting to establish a variety
of pathways to development - demonstrating that globalization is not imposing uniformity on the world but, rather, making for an
increasingly complex and differentiated world. Geography matters.'
Paul Knox, author of Geography of the World Econom

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