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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the concept of globalization as the transcendence (rather than the mere crossing or opening) of borders arguing that this interpretation offers the most distinctive and helpful insight into contemporary world affairs.
Abstract: 'Globalization' is a term that has come to be used in recent years increasingly frequently and, arguably, increasingly loosely. In a close analysis of the term, the author focuses on the concept ofglobalization as the transcendence (rather than the mere crossing or opening) of borders arguing that this interpretation offers the most distinctive and helpful insight into contemporary world affairs. The article goes on to explore one of the key questions raised by this trend, namely, how the growth of supraterritorial space has altered capitalism in general, and the role of the state within capitalism in particular. The author concludes by suggesting that ifglobalization poses a threat, it is not (as is often argued) to the state itseff but rather to democracy.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form, and discuss the usefulness of a collaborative model of administrative practice in preserving the value of democracy in public administration.
Abstract: The authors are concerned that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. They argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form. The classical republican model of citizen involvement faded with the rise of liberal capitalist society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Capitalism and democracy coexist in a society emphasizing procedural protection of individual liberties rather than substantive questions of individual development. Today’s market model of government in the form of New Public Management goes beyond earlier “reforms,” threatening to eliminate democracy as a guiding principle in public-sector management. The authors discuss the usefulness of a collaborative model of administrative practice in preserving the value of democracy in public administration.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that a shift is taking place in the fabric of capitalism as a result of a change in how the business of invention is understood, using theoretical approaches that rely on the notion that capitalism increasingly tries to draw in the whole intellect.
Abstract: This paper argues that a shift is taking place in the fabric of capitalism as a result of a change in how the business of invention is understood. Using theoretical approaches that rely on the notion that capitalism increasingly tries to draw in the whole intellect, in the first part of the paper I argue that the new understanding of innovation currently shows up as three associated developments: as the mobilization of forethought, as the deepening of the lure of the commodity through the co-creation of commodities with consumers, and as the construction of different kinds of apparently more innovative space suffused with information technology. The second part of the paper then argues that these disclosures are leading to new forms of value, based on generating moments of rightness. There is a brief conclusion.
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TL;DR: In the early 1970s, a young Marxist sociologist named Manuel Castells, then living in exile in Paris, began his soontobe-classic intervention, The Urban Question, by declaring his “astonishment” that debates on “urban problems” were becoming an essential element in the policies of governments, in the concerns of the mass media and in the everyday life of a large section of the population as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In the early 1970s, a young Marxist sociologist named Manuel Castells, then living in exile in Paris, began his soontobe-classic intervention, The Urban Question, by declaring his “astonishment” that debates on “urban problems” were becoming “an essential element in the policies of governments, in the concerns of the mass media and, consequently, in the everyday life of a large section of the population” (1977 [1972]: 1). For Castells, this astonishment was born of his orthodox Marxist assumption that the concern with urban questions was ideological. The real motor of social change, he believed, lay elsewhere, in workingclass action and antiimperialist mobilization. On this basis, Castells proceeded to deconstruct what he viewed as the prevalent “urban ideology” under postwar managerial capitalism: his theory took seriously the social construction of the urban phenomenon in academic and political discourse, but ultimately derived such representations from purportedly more foundational processes associated with capitalism and the state’s role in the reproduction of labor power. Four decades after Castells’s classic intervention, it is easy to confront early twentyfirstcentury discourse on urban questions with a similar sense of astonishment — not because it masks the operations of capitalism but because it has become one of the dominant metanarratives through which our current planetary situation is interpreted, both in academic circles and in the public sphere. Today advanced interdisciplinary education in urban social science, planning, and design
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TL;DR: Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe was studied by Brenner as discussed by the authors, who considered a crisis of feudalism and the development of modern industrial societies.
Abstract: Preface Introduction R. H. Hilton 1. Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe Robert Brenner 2. Population and class relations in feudal society M. M. Postan and John Hatcher 3. Agrarian class structure and the development of capitalism: France and England compared Patricia Croot and David Parker 4. Peasant organization and class conflict in Eastern and Western Germany Heide Wunder 5. A reply to Robert Brenner Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie 6. Against the neo-malthusian orthodoxy Guy Bois 7. A crisis of feudalism R. H. Hilton 8. In search of agrarian capitalism J. P. Cooper 9. Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial bohemia Arnost Klima 10. The Agrarian roots of European capitalism Robert Brenner Index.
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