Critiques and developments in world­systems analysis: an introduction to the special collection

Richard E. Lee ()
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Richard E. Lee: State University of New York at Binghamton

The Journal of Philosophical Economics, 2010, vol. 4, issue 1, 5-18

Abstract: From its inception, the world-systems perspective was not only enormously 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.

Keywords: world-systems analysis; critiques of world-systems analysis; Immanuel Wallerstein; commodity chains; households; world-ecology; structures of knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P00 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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