ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nationstates, World Trade Organization, Neoliberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1120
• Professor: Christianne Stephens

Document Summary

Globalization: the intensification of world wide social relations that link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. The development of relatively independent nation-states out of empires and colonialism. The very recent development of corporations and transnational corporations. Economic: generally, coordination of ruling elites and merchant classes (+ financial elite) As a nation-state integrates national economies, corporations integrate global economy creating trinational corporations. Transnational corporations are organized across national boundaries in terms of production, distribution, and sales. Costs that are not included in the prices people pay, such as health risks and environmental degradation. Anth-1120 making sense of a changing world lecture 7. Western myth market and government are fundamentally separate misconception because government/markets deeply integrated from the start. In practice: large market actors/corporations seek beneficial policies and the removal or restrictions. Free trade policies allow the movement of goods and production, rarely people.