LABRST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Free Trade, Global Governance, World Economy
2 Mar 2014
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Global economy changing political institutions, power, and democracy. How responsive is it to people: cultural (not going to focus on too much) Global cultural being formed (creation of global companies, media, etc. ) Labr st 2g03 lecture january 6, 7, &9, 2014. Lecture jan 6 just an intro to the course (no notes) Globalization: multi-faceted set of processes that incorporate/involve objective and subjective dimensions/process that are linking together people of the world: objective: transformations in economy, trade, etc, subjective: ideas, culture, ideologies. 3 dimensions (economic, political, cultural: economic, political. Post wwii period = the second great transformation . The great transformation (polanyi): a move to a market society (industrial capitalism: teeple"s critique of the skeptics (two diff types of skeptics) Some people claim/maintain that the very notion/concept of globalization is an ideological construct a concept to keep subordinate people in subordination.
