Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization - Brossura

Grewal, David Singh

 
9780300151343: Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization
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ISBN 10: 0300151349 ISBN 13: 9780300151343
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2009

Sinossi

A new framework for understanding how globalization works

For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; for others, it is the unfortunate outcome of impersonal forces beyond our control.  It is in turn celebrated for the opportunities it affords and criticized for the inequalities in wealth and power it generates.

David Singh Grewal&;s remarkable and ambitious book draws on several centuries of political and social thought to show how globalization is best understood in terms of a power inherent in social relations, which he calls network power. Using this framework, he demonstrates how our standards of social coordination both gain in value the more they are used and undermine the viability of alternative forms of cooperation. A wide range of examples are discussed, from the spread of English and the gold standard to the success of Microsoft and the operation of the World Trade Organization, to illustrate how global standards arise and falter. The idea of network power supplies a coherent set of terms and concepts&;applicable to individuals, businesses, and countries alike&;through which we can describe the processes of globalization as both free and forced.  The result is a sophisticated and novel account of how globalization, and politics, work.

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Informazioni sull?autore

David Singh Grewal is a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows and an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300151349
ISBN 13 
9780300151343
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
405
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2008
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