Format:
1 Online-Ressource (v, 192 p)
ISBN:
9781843767336
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Content:
1. Social organization, control and information technology -- 2. Telecommunications and the nineteenth-century liberal-international world order -- 3. Information technology and US industro-military development -- 4. Telematics and the post-war international order -- 5. Telematics as a transnational control infrastructure -- 6. The new cyber-financial global order.
Content:
Global Control 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-185) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781840648485
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1840648481
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 9781840648485(hardback)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1840648481
Additional Edition:
Elektronische Reproduktion von MacMahon, Peter Global control Cheltenham, UK [u.a.] : Elgar, 2002 ISBN 1840648481
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Informationswirtschaft
;
Globalisierung
;
Informationstechnik
;
Geschichte 1845-
DOI:
10.4337/9781843767336
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