:integrating reproductive, productive, and virtual economies
/ V. Spike Peterson
xxi, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
(RIPE series in global political economy)
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Context and objectives -- Politicizing globalization by rewriting global political economy -- Globalization in context: neoliberalism and information technologies -- The uneven effects of globalization: new and enduring structural hierarchies -- Objectives and limitations of the book -- Theory matters -- The divided terrain of globalization studies -- The theoretical terrain of IPE/GPE -- A continuum of feminist knowledge-building projects -- Relational framing through intersecting economies -- Relational framing through triad analytics -- Relational framing through a semiotic (interpretive, poststructuralist) model of language -- The productive economy -- Conventional accounts -- Rewriting the productive economy -- Production processes today -- From material-based to information-based production -- Flexibilization -- Neoliberalism in practice -- The reproductive economy -- Rewriting the reproductive economy -- The significance of social reproduction -- Non-waged labor and informalization -- Defining economic activity and informalization -- Dilemmas posed by informalization -- Informalization in theory -- Informalization in context -- Informalization in practice -- Interpreting informalization -- The virtual economy -- Introducing three modes of the virtual economy -- Technologies shaping dematerialization and deterritorialization -- Identities and subjectivities in the virtual economy -- The international financial system -- The informational economy -- The consumer society and the "economy of signs" -- Ideologies, linkages, a and political economy of consumption -- The power of value -- How we got here and what is going on -- What does it mean? -- Valuation through an interpretive lens -- Continuity and change.