Transformations in the Global Political Economy

This book brings together a collection of essays that focus on the various dimensions of this transformation and prospects for future changes. The book begins with an analytical essay that offers an overview of causes of change in the global political economy.

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Technology, ecology and transformations in the global political economy, Dennis Pirages; the international oil market - the future of relations between producers and consumers, Fereidun Fesharaki; adjusting to global transformation - sub-Saharan Africa and the global food system, Cheryl Christensen and Shahla Shapouri; international competition and commodity market management - the politics of the international sugar agreements, Jock Finlayson and Mark Zacher; interdependence and increased competition among the industrialized countries - implications for the developing world, Jeffrey Hart; the welfare state and export optimism, Douglas Nelson; the future of the newly industrializing countries - an uncertain promise, Chung-In Moon; the future of the fourth world - choices and constraints on the very poor in the 1980s, Timothy Shaw; the Emperors' theories and transformations - looking at the field through feminist lenses, Christine Sylvester.