Journal of World-Systems Research  

Richard York, Eugene A. Rosa, Thomas Dietz

We assess threats to environmental sustainability by examining the trends in three measures of the ecological footprint (EF) the total EF, the per capita EF, and the EF intensity of the economy (EF/GDP) for China, India, Japan, and the United States. fr... see more

David Baronov

This essay introduces a novel analytical concept for world-systems analysis, historical-cultural formations, for the purpose of analyzing reciprocal global cultural exchanges across the capitalist world-system. This is done through four basic procedures.... see more

Kyoung-ho Shin, Paul S. Ciccantell

In this paper, we focus on the roles of the steel and shipbuilding industries as generative sectors in Koreas rapid economic ascent. We argue that a world-systems analysis focusing on these generative sectors provides a more complete understanding of Kore... see more

Paul K. Gellert, Jon Shefner

Some of the most insightful work in the political economy of the world-system area has been produced by researchers whose extensive fieldwork offers them deep familiarity with people and locales. Few other methods are as useful to understand the impacts o... see more

Thomas D. Hall

About sixteen months ago we began discussing commissioning a series of review essays on Arrighis Adam Smith in Beijing. The original idea was to publish a collection of essays from various world-systems scholars, and have Arrighi respond. As we all know, ... see more

Jennifer Bair

Adam Smith in Beijing is an ambitious sequel to the work that is widely regarded as Giovanni Arrighis most important, The Long Twentieth Century. Much like this earlier book, Adam Smith in Beijing is a long, sweeping and provocative exploration of capital... see more

Gary Coyne

Adam Smith in Beijing is Giovanni Arrighis attempt to make sense of the rise of China and the fate of the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century, while at the same time speculating about the role of East Asia in the twenty-first century. In i... see more

Robert A. Denemark

Giovanni Arrighi dedicated Adam Smith in Beijing to the memory of Andre Gunder Frank. In this review I have been asked to consider the elements of Arrighis volume that Frank would have liked, and those he would have disliked. I identify five elements of w... see more

John Gulick

What a difference a year makes. While Giovanni Arrighis Adam Smith in Beijing is a complicated tapestry, threaded with multiple strands and sub-themes, if it offers any single master thesis, it is this: over the last four or so decades, the fading of US p... see more

Thomas E. Reifer

One of the more telling features of the present conjuncture is the scarcity of analysis able to squarely place todays global turbulence and the current crises in geohistorical perspective. In terms of the longue duree of capitalism since its late medieval... see more

Ganesh Trichur, Steven Sherman

Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing (ASB) subverts the temporality and conceptual vocabulary employed by most writers working in a Marxist tradition. In this view, capitalism is a mode of production which eventually encompasses the entire world. Perh... see more