Journal of World-Systems Research  

Michelle Bata, Albert Bergesen

This is Part II of the special issue on global inequality. The articles in thisissue extend some of the theoretical issues raised in the ?rst issue. By focusing on speci?c regions and comparing the development of global inequalities in the nineteenth and ... see more

Elson E. Boles

Sympathetic critics of world-system analysis contend that its systemic level of abstraction results in one-sided generalizations of systemic change. Unequal exchange theory and commodity chain analysis similarly reduce distinct and historical forms of la... see more

John Talbot

This paper argues that a new international inequality has been superimposed over the old international inequality, and that this superimposition can help to explain the increasing degree of inequality in the world economy today. The old international ineq... see more

Bruce Podobnik

This study examines the evolution of global energy inequalities over the modern period, with particular attention paid to the years 19581998. The analysis reveals that global energy inequalities were modestly reduced in the 1970s, as semi-peripheral natio... see more

Andre Gunder Frank

This book shows that the current globalization buzzword refers to a process that in fact already characterized the nineteenth century until the beginning of the First World War. From then and until the end of the Second World War, the process of globaliza... see more