ISBN:
1843767333
Language:
English
Pages:
v, 192 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Control : Information Technology and Globalization Since 1845
DDC:
303.3/3
Keywords:
Information technology Economic aspects
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Globalization
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 iden
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; 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; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-185) and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2003
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
