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Economic Globalism and Political Universalism: Conflicting Issues?

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Economic Globalism and Political Universalism: Conflicting Issues?
 
Creator Amin, Samir
 
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Description In the prevailing discourse, market and democracy are credited with such a strong unity it almost appears impossible to separate the two. The market is considered a manifest condition of democracy, the latter inexorably bound up with the former. Neither the conceptsnor the realitiesof what is or what could be the market and democracy are questioned in this discourse. In the same manner, globalisation and universalism are conceived in the discourse as being practically synonymous. The Global Village constitutes one of the fashionable catch-phrases which, though bereft of meaning, bear witness to this confusion. In this contribution, I will expatiate on the thesis that each of these dichotomies (market/democracy and globalisation/universalism) is more contradictory than complementary. The association of these two sets of issues, de?ned by an economic globalisation based on the market and a democratic political universalism, is as a result, utter nonsense which forces us to rethink the market, democracy and universalism within the perspective of a far-from-?nal history.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
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Date 2000-11-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/200
10.5195/jwsr.2000.200
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 6, Issue 3, 2000; 582-622
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/200/212
 
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