By J. Rennstich
Delivering a special, empirically established standpoint at the prior and destiny improvement of globalization as a long term technique rising in numerous components of the area, this booklet places present adjustments in a ancient context in a scientific model, unpacking the worldwide political, monetary, social, and cultural implications of this modification. It lines the resemblance of earlier advertisement networks with rising electronic networks and contrasts them with commercial construction structures.
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Systems comprising various levels, from small groups of people to the global networks of relationships visible in contemporary 28 The Making of a Digital World world politics), that is, the interaction processes between the various subsystems. A world system, in this view, is conceived of as the social organization of the human species, viewed as one population. This population exists in either an organized or unorganized state, united by basic institutions such as cities, writing, states (or state systems), technologies, and inter-subsystem networks such as trading networks.
To reiterate, K-waves represent the process of structural change in the global economy. Unlike the Schumpeterian business cycles, the K-waves in this context center not on prices or macroeconomic quantities, but on leading commercial and industrial sectors on a global scale, in the economies originating them (Modelski and Thompson, 1996, 9). Each of the long cycles or world power episodes is tied to a specific pair of K-waves. As each K-wave lasts about fifty–sixty years (see discussion above), each leadership long cycles lasts around 100 years.
Assumption: The Clustering of Leading Sectors. The next assumption presumes that the arrival of leading sectors appears in clusters of related innovations, or in mutations on older ways of doing things. Some of those mutations emerge as selections by firms as the result of doing things in a very different or revolutionary new way, which quickly evolve as the new standard. This new technology is used as a new means of transportation for important commodities and often combined with the development of new industries and other types of economic activities.
