Peter E. Grimes
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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
Table of Contents
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