GGR325H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sun Belt, Snowbelt, Joel Mokyr
Document Summary
Ggr325 lecture 11 mar 24 - winners & losers. Old statistical framework not well designed to measure modern innovations. Through a rapid fall in death rates. Not an exponential increase in birth rates. Fertility rates are well below the replacement level. Significant variations in age - composition of population between countries. Transnational capitalist class: economic interest ~ increasingly globally linked rather than exclusively local, behavior ~ specific forms of global competitive & consumist rhetoric & practice, outward-oriented global (rather than inward-oriented local) on most economic, political. & cultural ideology issues: similar lifestyles (higher education, consumption of luxury goods, etc. , self-projection as citizens of the world as well as place of birth. Em(un)ployment geographical trends: broad interregional shifts in employment opportunities (snowbelt vs sunbelt, relative decline of large urban-metropolitan areas as centers of manufacturing activity. & - increased manufacturing activities in non-metropolitan & rural areas: hollowing out of inner cities of older industrialized countries.
