The Interplay Between Expansionary and Assimilatory Forces

Eduardo Albuquerque

Chapter Chapter 8 in Technological Revolutions and the Periphery, 2023, pp 193-214 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As Part II presented information on the expansionary forces emanating from the center after each big bang and how the assimilatory forces were created and recreated to deal with different technologies, it summarized the arrival and spread of each big bang in India, China, Russia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. With these data, it is possible now to have a broader overview of their dynamics. During the investigations of this book, it became clear that expansionary and assimilatory forces did not operate in isolation, therefore it is necessary to understand their interaction. In this chapter, revisiting the theoretical framework, investigates this interplay, starting from the synthesis resulting from the consolidation of the data from the six technological revolutions reaching the periphery. The aggregate picture shows how this process is turbulent, as different technologies arrive at different times, in different orders, with different intensities of diffusion, creating different overlapping and superposition among them. This broad overview shows different processes of mutual influence between expansionary and assimilatory forces, suggesting a complex pattern of interaction showing how the periphery influences the center, before, during and after each big bang.

Keywords: Big bangs and previous assimilation by the center; Absorption by the periphery; Feedbacks between expansionary and assimilatory forces; Superposition and overlapping of technological revolutions; Center; Periphery and complex systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43436-5_8

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