5 articles in this issue
William K. Tabb
In the contemporary conjuncture financialization is driving a fundamentalreorganization of American capitalism and increasingly that of other economiessignificantly impacting the trajectory of the world-system. This paper interrogates the nature and exten... see more
Martin Pitts, Danny Dorling, Charles Pattie
This paper addresses the issue of the globalization of food production and consumption in the last half-century through the medium of fats and oils, or lipids. The dual traits of being essential for human life and signifying a diverse range of regional st... see more
Minqi Li , Feng Xiao, Andong Zhu
In this paper we study the long-term movement of the profit rate and related variables in the UK, the US, Japan, and the Euro-zone. Since the mid-19th century there have been four long waves in the movement of the average profit rate and rate of accumulat... see more
Nick Kardulias
As originally formulated, the world-systems model postulated a relationship in which core states exploited peripheries for raw materials and made the latter into dependent satellites. This approach views indigenous people in peripheries as passive recipie... see more
Ramya M. Vijaya, Linda Kaltani
This paper presents a cross-country empirical investigation of the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on manufacturing wages. Our results indicate that FDI-Flows have a negative impact on overall wages in the manufacturing sector and this impact is... see more