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This new Edition in the Sociology for a New Century Series is intended to be used in any course in the undergraduate or beginning graduate curriculum that focuses on globalization. It is the first book published for undergraduates which presents a coherent explanation for how `globalization′ took root in the public discourse and how `globalization′ represents a shift away from `development′ as a way to think about non-western societies.

The Third Edition is full of case studies that help to make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear to students. It also includes new treatments of fundamentalism, terrorism, the AIDS crisis and the commercialization of services via the World Trade Organization.

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• Part 1 The Development Project (Late 1940s To Early 1970s)
• Instituting the Development Project
• The Development Project in Global Context
• Part 2 The Development Project Unravels
• The Global Economy Reborn
• International Finance and the Rise of Global Managerialism
• Part 3 The Globalization Project (1980s - )
• Instituting the Globalization Project
• The Globalization Project
• Structural Instabilities
• Part 4 Rethinking Development
• The Globalization Project and Its Counter-Movements
• Whither Development?

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide. After traveling in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and working in a community in Papua New Guinea, he pursued his doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has taught at the University of New England (New South Wales), Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia and is presently Professor and Chair of Development Sociology at Cornell University