Global Formation Structures of the World Economy

In this impressive book, Chase-Dunn ... explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth. -- Susan Strange Times Higher Education Supplement [T]he major statement to date of American world-systems theory and research. -- Walter L. Goldfrank, University of California, Santa Cruz The second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort. International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB) An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism... Sociological Abstracts, April 2000 An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism. Sociological Abstracts, April 2000