Limits to globalization
Subtitle: disruptive geographies of capitalist development
By: Eric Sheppard
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780199681167
Subjects: Globalization; Economic geography; Economic aspects; Capitalism
Description: This book summarizes how globalizing capitalism - the economic system now presumed to dominate the global economy - can be understood from a geographical perspective. This is in contrast to mainstream economic analysis, which theorizes globalizing capitalism as a system that is capable of enabling everyone to prosper and every place to achieve economic development. From this perspective, the globalizing capitalism perspective has the capacity to reduce poverty. Poverty's persistence is explained in terms of the dysfunctional attributes of poor people and places. A geographical perspective has two principal aspects: Taking seriously how the spatial organization of capitalism is altered by economic processes and the reciprocal effects of that spatial arrangement on economic development, and examining how economic processes co-evolve with cultural, political, and biophysical processes. From this, globalizing capitalism tends to reproduce social and spatial inequality; poverty's persistence is due to the ways in which wealth creation in some places results in impoverishment elsewhere. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Geography, economy, development; title: Economic geography: A brief genealogy; title: Exogenous geographies: The view from economics; title: The view from geography; title: Development in question; title: Conclusion; title: 2. Spatialities of commodity production; title: Separating paradigms: Theory-language or socio-spatial ontology?; title: The spacetimes of commodity production; title: Conclusion; title: 3. The uneven geographies of globalizing capitalism; title: Geographies of production; title: Uneven geographies of consumption; title: The politics of production; title: Conclusion; title: 4. Capitalist dynamics: Continuity, or crisis?; title: Atemporal capitalist dynamics; title: Theorizing capitalist crisis; title: What about spatiality?; title: Conclusion; title: 5. Globalizing capitalism's spatio-temporalitiies; title: Evolutionary economic geography; title: The emergent dynamics of globalizing capitalism; title: Provincializing our understanding of globalizing capitalism; title: Conclusion; title: 6. The Free Trade doctrine - A critique; title: The entanglements of commodity trade; title: Mainstream trade theory; title: The free trade doctrine in light of globalizing capitalism; title: Conclusion; title: 7. Geographies of unequal exchange; title: Alternative trade theories: Stillborn heterodoxies; title: Toward a geographical theory of global trade; title: Conclusion; title: 8. Capitalism's raggedy edges: People, Earth, Finance; title: People; title: Earth; title: Finance; title: Conclusion; title: 9. Conclusion.