Critiques and developments in world-systems analysis: an introduction to the special collection[1]

• Main Author: Richard E. Lee
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Rosetti Internaţional 2010-11-01
• Series: Journal of Philosophical Economics
• Subjects: World-systems analysis; Critiques of world-systems analysis; Immanuel Wallerstein; Commodity chains; Households; World-ecology; Structures of knowledge
• Online Access: http://www.jpe.ro/poze/articole/51.pdf

From its inception, the world-systems perspective was not onlyenormously influential in long-term, large-scale social research; it also attracted a set of serious critiques. These fell into the general areas of the emergence of the capitalist world-economy; reductionism in the mode of argument; surplus appropriation and accumulation, including the question of class; and the general exclusion of an analysis of any role for “culture.” It is concrete developments in world-systems analysis over the past three decades,although not to the exclusion of explicit responses to critiques, that have gone a long way in addressing these concerns. They fall most notably into the areas of commodity chains, households, world-ecology, and the structures of knowledge.