Alternative capitalisms
Subtitle: geographies of emerging regions
By: Robert N. Gwynne, Thomas Klak, Denis J.B. Shaw.
Contributors: Klak, Thomas, 1957-; Shaw, Denis J. B.
Publisher: Arnold; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press Inc.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Globalization -- Economic aspects.; International economic integration.; Capitalism.; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Description: "This book aims to examine the effects of globalization and economic and political transformations in those parts of the world which are now regularly referred to as 'emerging regions'. These are Latin America and the Caribbean, East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and East Asia. This book breaks new ground in three areas. First of all it develops a critique of the use of the term 'emerging regions' for geographers and social scientists and relates this to world-systems theory. Secondly, it explores the development trajectories and challenges of countries in this so-called emerging world, countries that will be crucial to the evolution of the world economy in the twenty-first century.

Thirdly, it compares and contrasts the pathways of both economic and political change in the three world regions under focus. This is a unique approach in terms of books published in both geography and the social sciences."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-242) and index.