Abstract
Review of "Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage," Peter A. Hall and David Soskice, eds.,
Highlights
By drawing upon cultural anthropology, he compares the fetishism of the Inca emperor to the fetishism of the modern machine
As a sociologist with very little background in anthropology and physics, I benefited from the careful explanations of arguments such as how the laws of thermodynamics support theories of uneven development, how the Inca Emperor relates to the modern day machine, and how Spondylus shells demonstrate the evolution of capital accumulation
A United States of Europe would be a true global example of responsible democratic government that would be able to live up to article of the declaration of human rights as drafted by Robespierre and quoted on page : “Society is obliged to guarantee the subsistence of all its members, either by procuring them work or by ensuring that those who are unable to work have the means to exist.” The continental tradition of an active, strong state is transformed in Joxe’s view to a truly subversive and counter-hegemonic possibility against the U.S.–led global (dis)order
Summary
Hornborg’s The Power of the Machine offers a rich theoretical analysis of how technology masks the inequalities between nations, humans, and ecosystems within the World System.
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