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POVERTY, EXPLOITATION, AND POPULATION GROWTH : MARXIST AND MALTHUSIAN VIEWS ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CHILDBEARING IN THE THIRD WORLD by Peter Grimes A Thesis Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

MASTER OF ARTS, Department of Sociology 1981

 

ECONOMIC CYCLES AND INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM: 1790-1990

By Peter Grimes

A Dissertation submitted to the Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; Baltimore, MD Copyright 1996



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Abstract

CHAPTER ONE 1: STRATIFICATION IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM 1

THE STRUCTURE: CORE, SEMIPERIPHERY, PERIPHERY 2

The Core 3

The Periphery 5

TheSemiperipherv 8

The State 8

Summary 10

NATIONAL MOBILITY WITHIN THE WORLD-SYSTEM 11

CAPITALIST CYCLES 13

Juglar cycles 14

Kuznets cycles 14

Kondratieff cycles 15

CHAPTER TWO: CYCLES AND INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY 18

Mobility, the Kondratieff, and the Nation-State 20

The Effect of Economic Cycles on Class Relations 23

Core Competition, Global War, and the Periphery 26

CHAPTER THREE: RECORDED DATA: THE REALM OF APPEARANCES 30

I. CYCLES AND THE DATA 30

Recent cycle research 30

HUNTING FOR CYCLES: THE METHOD 32

The Data 33

A Validity Check 36

HUNTING FOR CYCLES: THE RESULTS 41

A Global Cycle of Production 41

Identifying the Cycle Found 44

Deviation Within the Global Pattern 47

CHAPTER FOUR: RECORDED DATA: THE REALM OF APPEARANCES (Part 2) 51

II. WORLD-SYSTEM POSITION AND THE DATA 51

Recent Research on World-System Position 51

Critique of Arrighi, Drangel, Korzeniewicz, and Martin 55

The World-System Position Measure Used Here 57

The Empirical Components of WSP 58

Trade Dependence 58

Economic Size Relative to Trading Partners 59

The Organic Composition of Capital

Share of Global Production

CHAPTER FIVE:The Results 65

An Example of Constructing WSP: the United States 65

WSP Computed for 5 Core Countries 75

The Global Pattern 80

Another look at the Global Distribution 86

WSP COMPARED TO OTHER MEASURES 89

WSP AND INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY 92

International Mobility and the Global Economic Cycle 96

CONCLUSION 101

APPENDIX 106

BIBLIOGRAPHY 114

 

Peter E. Grimes 1999 The Horsemen and the Killing Fields: The Final Contradiction of Capitalism Pp13-42 in Walter L. Goldfrank, David Goodman and Andrew Szasz (eds.) Ecology and the World-System, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press

 

Sociologist of Energy: Howard Ehrlich interviews Peter Grimes 2003 Social Anarchism: A Journal of Theory and Practice 34: 37-50 ISSN: 0196-4801