The document discusses World System Theory as articulated by Dr. Christopher S. Rice, emphasizing the influences of East Asian growth, U.S. capitalism, and the ideas of neo-Marxism and historical analysis by figures such as Immanuel Wallerstein and Fernand Braudel. It outlines the different historical systems—mini-systems, world empires, and world economies—while exploring core, semi-periphery, and periphery dynamics in relation to economic development. The text also compares England's low-wage route to high-wage routes in countries like the United States and Australia, particularly in textile production and market expansion strategies.

1. World System Theory Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. Why World System Theory? East Asian Growth Crisis of Socialist States Crisis in U.S. Capitalism

4. Neo-Marxism + Annales School

6. Braudel’s Mediterranean “not content to stop at the shores of the ‘inland sea’…starts in the mountains and extends not only to the hot deserts of Africa but to the cold deserts of China, half a world away; and westwards it extends to Mexico and Lima, to Acapulco and Manila, and back to China.” Immanuel Wallerstein

7. la longue duree

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9. Society vs Historical System

10. Three Forms of Historical Systems Mini-Systems World Empires World Economies

11. CORE PERIPHERY

12. CORE PERIPHERY SEMI-PERIPHERY

13. CORE PERIPHERY SEMI-PERIPHERY

14. Seizing the Chance

15. Semi-Peripheral Development by Invitation

16. Semi-Peripheral Development through Self-Reliance

17. CORE PERIPHERY SEMI-PERIPHERY

18. How to enlarge market for national products: Expanding its political boundaries Increasing the costs of imported goods Lowering the costs of production Increasing the internal level of purchasing power Manipulate the tastes of consumers

19. England’s Low-Wage Route

20. “ A combination of a rural textile industry (thus free from the high guild-protection wage costs of traditional centers of textile production, such as Flanders, Southern Germany, and Northern Italy), with a process of agricultural improvement of arable land in medium-sized units (thus simultaneously providing a yeoman class of purchasers and an evicted class of vagrants and migrants who provided much of the labor for the textile industry), plus a deliberate decision to push for the new market of low-cost textiles (the “new draperies”) to be sold to the middle stratum of artisans, less wealthy burghers, and richer peasants who had flourished in the expanding cycle of the European world economy.” Immanuel Wallerstein (1979)

21. High-Wage Route (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand)