Richard Lee - Critiques and developments in world-systems analysis: an introduction to the special collection

jpe:10603 - Journal of Philosophical Economics, November 20, 2010, Volume IV Issue 1 - https://doi.org/10.46298/jpe.10603
Critiques and developments in world-systems analysis: an introduction to the special collection

Authors: Richard Lee

    From its inception, the world-systems perspective was not only enormously influential in long-term, large-scale social research; it also attracted a set of serious critiques. These fell into the general areas of the emergence of the capitalist world-economy; reductionism in the mode of argument; surplus appropriation and accumulation, including the question of class; and the general exclusion of an analysis of any role for "culture." It is concrete developments in world-systems analysis over the past three decades, although not to the exclusion of explicit responses to critiques, that have gone a long way in addressing these concerns. They fall most notably into the areas of commodity chains, households, world-ecology, and the structures of knowledge.


    Volume: Volume IV Issue 1
    Section: Articles
    Published on: November 20, 2010
    Imported on: December 28, 2022
    Keywords: world-systems analysis,critiques of world-systems analysis,Immanuel Wallerstein,commodity chains,households,world-ecology,structures of knowledge,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences

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