GGR111H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Core Countries, Modernization Theory
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Commodity chain network of labour and production processes whose result is a finished commodity, ie design, procurement of raw materials, manufacturing. Preconditions for take-off (commercial exploitation of agriculture and extractive industry) Installation of physical infrastructure and emergence of social / political elite. Transition triggered by external influence, interests or markets. Investment in manufacturing exceeds 10% of natural income, development of modern social, economic and political institutions. Drive to maturity (development of wider industrial and commercial base) Anachronistic: portrays differences in geography as differences of time, o(cid:373)e cou(cid:374)tries just ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)"t caught up (cid:455)et. Western model: more descriptive than perspective. Resources go from periphery and semi-periphery to core. High profit consumption goods go from core to outside places. Semi-periphery does a little of both giving and taking. Prioritizes the national scale: does not account for transnational relationships. Core-centric: focused (cid:373)ore o(cid:374) (cid:862)core cou(cid:374)tries(cid:863) a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)ploitati(cid:448)e practices.
