Global Control
Information Technology and Globalization since 1845
By Dr Peter McMahon
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Peter McMahon is an interdisciplinary scholar researching
the relationship between technology and international political economy. His
particular focus is the role that information technology has played in the
long process of globalisation. For some years he has taught politics and international
political economy at Murdoch University. He currently also teaches Australian
Studies and Futures Studies for the Institute for Sustainability and Technology
Policy at Murdoch. He is publishing articles (including on-line) on globalisation,
technological change, global politics and Australian politics. He has just
begun work on his second book (working title: 'Total Control: War, Technology
and Economic Development) on the long term development of control systems
and their political, military and socio-economic impact.
Peter McMahon has previously worked in a
number of occupations, including in state and federal politics.
From the cover of Global Control
Global Control aims to achieve a clearer understanding
of the long process of globalization by focusing on the crucial role of information
and control technologies. This unique book will be of great interest to academics
and researchers of political economy, globalization, innovation and science
as well as international business scholars.
'McMahon gives us a cogent history of information
systems as means of control essential to recurrent cycles of capitalist reorganization.
An engaging, theoretically informed, and deeply provocative synthesis.'
Dan Schiller, University of Illinois, USA
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