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This volume aims to achieve a clearer understanding of the long process of globalization by focusing on the crucial role of information and control technologies. Information systems and control technologies are key to globalization and, while generally facilitating the overall trend to spatial reorganization, they also effect change through the pervasive influence of "internal systems logic". Thus, the author argues, the dominant institutions of states, firms and markets transform global development and are themselves transformed by key information technologies. More specifically the book identifies the key phases of modern globalization and analyses the crucial role played by different information technologies at each point in time. Peter McMahon uses theory in political economy with writing on technological developemnts, and also combines cutting edge theory with historical evidence to provide a new explanation of the last one and a half centuries of globalization.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Global Control
• Subtitle: Information Technology and Globalization Since 1845
• Author: Peter McMahon
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9781840648485
• ID: 04849350
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 453 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 2002

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