Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea
In: Cornell Studies in Political Economy Ser
In: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
In: Cornell Studies in Political Economy Ser
In: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
In: American Studies v.1
What Do We Owe Each Other? includes essays by some of the finest social and political policy researchers in the United States. They address critical issues in contemporary American society. These range from the making of public opinion, the nature of the presumed social contract between government and its people, the special place of corporate governance and institutional investors with respect to social stability, the search for educational equality in a world of growing income disparities, the huge run up in prison populations and the decline of American citizenship, and not least, the ethic
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conducting Global Social Research -- I. What Is Globalization? -- 3. Global Social Change in the Long Run -- 4. Competing Conceptions of Globalization -- 5. Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective -- II. Global Inequality -- 6. Global Inequality: An Introduction -- 7. Global Energy Inequalities: Exploring the Long-Term Implications -- III. Globalization and the Environment -- 8. Ecosystems and World-Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process -- 9. Global Social Change, Natural Resource Consumption, and Environmental Degradation -- IV. Globalization, Hegemony, and Global Governance -- 10. Spatial and Other "Fixes" of Historical Capitalism -- 11. Contemporary Intracore Relations and World-Systems Theory -- V. Global Social Movements -- 12. Gender and Globalization: Female Labor and Women's Mobilization -- 13. Environmentalism and the Trajectory of the Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement -- 14. National and Global Foundations of Global Civil Society -- VI. Democracy and Democratization -- 15. Transnational Social Movements and Democratic Socialist Parties in the Semiperiphery: On to Global Democracy -- 16. Globalization and the Future of Democracy -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.