In this impressive book, Chase-Dunn . . . explains in masterly fashion the political and social factors that make the capitalist system so good at producing wealth.
- Susan Strange, Times Higher Education
[T]he major statement to date of American world-systems theory and research.
- Walter L. Goldfrank, University of California, Santa Cruz,
The second edition of Global Formation brings us doubly up to date on Chase-Dunn's contributions to the joint effort.
International Sociology Review
An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism.....
Sociological Abstracts, April 2000
An updated edition extends a world-systems structural modelof the world economy to take into account events that have occurred since 1985, including the emergence of the information age, the expansion of economic globalism, & the fall of communism.
Sociological Abstracts, April 2000