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Geoeconomic Uses of Global Warming: The “Green” Technological Revolution and the Role of the Semi-Periphery

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Geoeconomic Uses of Global Warming: The “Green” Technological Revolution and the Role of the Semi-Periphery
 
Creator Hurtado, Diego
Souza, Pablo
 
Subject Economy; Global Studies; Political Science
Global warming; Green industrial revolution; Semi-periphery; neo-Schumpeterian economics; semiperipheral neoliberalism
 
Description While some semi-peripheral countries have seen renewable energies as an opportunity to build their industrial and technological capacities, core countries and global governance organizations have been promoting “green growth.” Since the 2008 global financial crisis, global warming has been used as a catalyst for big business. As the global economy may be entering the first stage of a “green” technology revolution, neo-Schumpeterian economists have regained visibility. We intend to show how, as a consequence of the lack of a world-systemic perspective, crucial inconsistencies arise in neo-Schumpeterian contributions that weaken their conceptualization of the role of non-core economies in technological change. We examine the case of the tortuous trajectory of wind energy in Argentina to show the specific organizational, institutional, and macroeconomic constraints faced by a semi-peripheral economy as it attempts to develop its own technological and industrial capacities. The neo-Schumpeterian view of the “green industrial revolution” must be understood as valid only for the core-economy subsystem, which seems to require as well polarization of the world-system through what we call “semi-peripheral neoliberalism,” a peripheralizing force upon the semi-periphery necessary in order to rejuvenate core economies.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
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Date 2018-03-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/700
10.5195/jwsr.2018.700
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Vol 24, No 1 (2018): Volume 24, Issue 1: Winter/Spring 2018; 123-150
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/700/1032
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2018 Diego Hurtado, Pablo Souza
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