Level of Analysis
Matrix of Oppression
4. Neocolonialism - Low wage worksites may be globally dispersed and simply linked to the center via communications technologies. Ex: NAFTA; U.S has the strongest leverage, then Canada, and lastly, Mexico.
1. Race - Anglo-European
elites tend to dominate the most influential financial and policy-making arenas.
2. Gender - Women are
hardly to be seen. Predominantly male, decision makers are characterized by masculine terms: they hold University degrees, work with words and numbers, and speak English.
3. Class- Identities
favored in the "Community heights" of global finance are those of national; and international elites; especially professionals and executives.
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Bibliography
Connection to TU
2. "The exchange of knowledge, information, or "intellectual capital" (Dunning 2010 [2000],8)."
1. Peterson, V. Spike. 2010.The Virtual Economy.
In Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives, edited by Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey,420-441. New York: McGraw Hill Press.
2. Bradshaw, Jamie. "Branded Trailer."
Branded, 2012. http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=HInOg12jMiY.
3. Dunning, J.H. 2010[2000]. Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge Economy: The issues stated. In Regions, Globalization, and the Knowledge-based Economy, ed. John H. Dunning. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 7-41.
4.Drucker, P. 2010 [1986]. The Changed World Economy. Foreign Affairs 64, 4: 768-791.
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- Information and knowledge are not subject to the same time and space constraints associated with material commodities
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Electronic signals move around the world, however, the electronic transmission of knowledge knows no territorial boundaries.
1. Financial globalization is virtual in the sense of the symbolic nature of money;the object being traded.
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- Money is used as means of exchange, store of wealth, or standard of value.
- "World money" that circulates today's financial markets are being separated from the "real" economy of goods and services.
"..exchange rates and interest rates - which are key to business decision-making, public policy-making, and hence everyday lives worldwide - are increasingly determined by financial trading on world markets (Cerny 2010 [1996],130; Held et al. [1999], 189)."
Questions of the Day
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V. Spike Peterson
- Feminist scholar of international relations
- Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona
3. Emphasizes symbolic goods in consumerist and more post-modern terms, as a political economy of signs.
Peterson's "Two Cents" about the Virtual Economy
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Analyses of global economy must acknowledge/address:
1.The new scale and velocity of cross border transactions
2. The nature of these transactions and effects on more conventional forms of exchange
- Emphasizes that an increased consumption of goods is economically beneficial
BRANDED
How many of you have seen this commercial?
What can you gather from this commercial?
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