This 1981 seminal acticle by Robert Cox, in my opinion, provides a good back ground and perspective when looking at transnational-networked capitalist power structures known as global governance, and reading thick reports coming out of the complex web of WB, IMF, UN, OECD, WTO,.. besides the WEF, Trilateral Commission (as well as non-reports or conspiracy on Bilderberg meetings): Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory":
[1] http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Pol272/Cox.pdf. This is a classic text opening and flourishing a line of inquiry can be named as introduction to historical materialist critic of global political economy. Hence it is more then worthy for theoretical, ideational, algorithmic and political practitioners who try to understand possibilities and aim for global and transnational radical societal change. Orsan On 23 Dec 2014, at 01:37, Orsan <[email protected]> wrote: by Paul Cammack (https://www.academia.edu/9868547/The_World_Development_Report_2015_Programming_the_Poor) "The World Bank has discovered that people are programmable, and some (poor people) are more programmable than others. So the 2015 World Development Report (Mind, Society and Behavior) has ditched the `rational actor' model on which neo-classical economics was built, as an impediment to the purpos..." <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
