HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Influenza A Virus Subtype H2N2, World-Systems Theory, 18 Months
22 Jan 2018
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Outline: the revolutions powering globalization, the washington consensus, neoliberalism and emergence of the wto, globalization by the numbers. Death of the keynesian consensus 1973-1988: 1971 nicon soock, 1973 opec oil crisis. 1986 imf forms structural adjustment facility: 1986-1994 uruguay round (culminates in the wto in 1995) Building up the infrastructure of global capitalism 1989-present: 1989 fall of the berlin wall (and communism, 1989 the washington consensus, 1990 the world wide web, 1993 - a single european market is established. 1994 - new global trading rules are established under the uruguay round of the general. Agreement on tariffs and trade 1994 nafta (north american free trade agreement: 1995 wto comes into force, 1998-1999 asian flu, 1999 euro currency introduced, 2003 doha round of negotiations (china joins the wto) Personal computing: 1950s mainframes, 1976 steve jobs" dream, 1980s ibm wintel revolution, 1990s personal computers, 2000s server architecture.
