John Weeks
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611338 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Weeks |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Weeks |
| FIRMA | WEEKS J |
| AFILIACIONES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1777-1656 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 93 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 217 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
“We remember the pain”
Rates of homelessness among adults aged 50 and over are rising. Common strategies for exiting homelessness rely on social and family support. However, intergenerational trauma may disrupt these social support networks and contribute to homelessness. Understanding the impact of intergenerational trauma on living with family or friends may give insight into addressing homelessness among older adults. We purposefully sampled 46 adults who reported l…
Loneliness among homeless-experienced older adults with cognitive or functional impairments
Loneliness is a complex and heterogenous social phenomenon, with homeless-experienced older adults with cognitive or functional impairments exhibiting diverse loneliness experiences based on their individual life circumstances and needs. While the most distressing loneliness experience occurred among those with physical impairment and mobility challenges, social and structural factors such as interpersonal and structural violence during homelessn…
Barriers and facilitators to resolving older adult homelessness through stays with family
Living with family and friends is a common strategy used to prevent or exit homelessness, but little is known about structural barriers that impede family and friends' ability to provide temporary or permanent housing for older homeless adults. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 46 homeless participants from the HOPE HOME study, a cohort of 350 community-recruited homeless adults age 50 or older in Oakland, CA, who reported having staye…
Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness
Background: The proportion of adults age 50 and older experiencing homelessness is growing. People at risk for homelessness may stay with family and friends to prevent homelessness. Moving in with housed family and friends is a strategy used to exit homelessness. Little is known about these stays with family and friends. This study examined the motivations for and challenges of older adults experiencing homelessness staying with or moving in with…
Beth A. Bechky. Blood, Powder, and Residue
Racial discrimination in the life course of older adults experiencing homelessness
Over 2.5 million people experience homelessness yearly in the United States. Black persons are overrepresented by three-fold among those experiencing homelessness but little research has examined the relationship between race and homelessness. We aimed to understand the relationship between race and the experience of homelessness for older adults. We used grounded theory methodology to analyze in-depth qualitative interviews (n = 65) of persons e…
Social normative and social network factors associated with adolescent pregnancy
BACKGROUND: Adolescent pregnancy and childbirth are common throughout Central America. While gendered beliefs promoting motherhood are a known risk factor, their association with adolescent childbirth within the social networks of Central American communities is unknown. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study looking at adolescent childbirth amongst women ages 15-20 years (N = 2990) in rural Honduras, using reproductive health data on all indi…
Spatial analysis of individual- and village-level sociodemographic characteristics associated with age at marriage among married adolescents in rural Niger
Our findings suggest that large-scale approaches to eliminating child marriage in these communities may be less successful if they do not take into consideration geographically and socially determined contextual factors at the village level
Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana
The primary objectives of this study are to examine intra-urban spatial variation in the rates of under-five-years-old child mortality (5q0) in Accra in 2000 and 2010, as well as between those two dates, and to evaluate potential connections between the ph
A Cross‐linguistic Examination of Toddlers’ Interpretation of Vowel Duration
Languages differ in their phonological use of vowel duration. For the child, learning how duration contributes to lexical contrast is complicated because segmental duration is implicated in many different linguistic distinctions. Using a language‐guided looking task, we measured English and Dutch 21‐month‐olds’ recognition of familiar words with normal or manipulated vowel durations. Dutch but not English learners were affected by duration change…
Capital and Exploitation
Professor Weeks proposes that the key to Marx's critique of capitalist society is the labor theory of value. A commodity-producing society, he argues, necessarily gives rise to a capitalist society, so that commodity production and the exploitation of labor are inseparably linked.
Euro Crises and Euro Scams
The euro crisis has been typically presented as excessive fiscal deficits leading to the accumulation of unsustainable public debts. This debt and deficit diagnosis applied most notably in Greece and Italy, but also in Portugal and Spain (the ‘PIGS’). Implicit in much of the analysis, and occasionally explicit, is the suggestion that these were not only profligate but also lazy PIGS that spent beyond their means and abandoned a commitment to inte…
Culture, Workplace
Defining neighborhood boundaries for urban health research in developing countries
The neighborhood has been used as a sampling unit for exploring variations in health outcomes. In a variety of studies census tracts or ZIP codes have been used as proxies for neighborhoods because the boundaries are pre-defined units for which other data are readily available. However these spatial units can be arbitrary and do not account for social-cultural behaviors and identities that are significant to residents. In this study for the city …
Curses, Diseases and Other Resource Confusions
Natural resource rents, development assistance and unrequited foreign exchange inflows such as remittances relax the balance of payments constraint on economic growth. The failure of some governments to translate these resources into successful development has been attributed to an affliction called ‘Dutch disease’, or, more ominously, to a ‘curse’ associated with the availability of natural resources. This paper examines the disease/curse analys…
Immigration and Transnationalism
As more Latin American migrants make their way to the United States, the issue of transnationalism has received increased scholarly attention. Transnationalism refers to the delinking of the individual from his or her government and an increase in international ties as a result of the economic globalization that promotes the movement of people, goods, money, and ideas. Prevailing consensus is that the state, particularly in Latin America, is weak…
Estimating spatial inequalities of urban child mortality
BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that the traditional rural-urban dichotomy pointing to cities as places of better health in the developing world can be complicated by poverty differentials. Knowledge of spatial patterns is essential to understanding the processes that link individual demographic outcomes to characteristics of a place. A significant limitation, however, is the lack of spatial data and methods that offer flexibility in data inp…
Open Economy Monetary Policy Reconsidered
The standard policy rule of the Mundell-Fleming model states that under a flexible exchange rate regime with perfectly elastic capital flows, monetary policy is effective and fiscal policy is not. The rule ignores the effect of a change in the nominal exchange rate on the domestic price level. The price level effect is noted in some textbooks, but not formally analyzed. When subjected to a rigorous analysis, the interaction of the exchange rate a…
The Theory and Empirical Credibility of Commodity Money
The recent instability in financial markets demonstrated the inadequacy of the mainstream treatment of money and the underlying production base. This has stimulated inter est in the possible role of a money commodity. The fundamental function of monetary theory, an explanation of the general level of prices, is provided through only two analytical mechanisms, quantity-based valueless money or a money commodity. The quantity-based explanation is u…
Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis
In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mainstream economics neither anticipated nor could account for this disastrous financial crisis, which required massive state intervention throughout the capitalist world. Karl Marx did anticipate this type of financial collapse, arguing that it was derivative from the ‘fetishism of commodities’ inherent in the capitalist mode of production. Thi…
Mistaken identity
Newly independent Republic of Moldova joined the World Bank and the IMF in 1992. The World Bank designated it a ‘middle income’ country, a status it retained for Bretton Woods lending until 1997. The middle income designation implied that the government of Moldova was not eligible for concessionary finance from the multilateral and major bilateral development agencies. After demonstrating that assigning middle income status to Moldova was a mista…
Photocopiers and Water-coolers
There has been increasing recognition of the importance of informal interactions in organizations, but research examining the effects of the physical environment on informal interaction has produced contradictory results and practical attempts to control the level of informal interaction by design have been marked by unintended consequences. Drawing on a qualitative study of informal interactions observed in photocopier rooms in three organizatio…
Ownership and Donorship
During the 1990s development funders 1 officially incorporated into their rhetoric the ideal of passing control of the design, implementation, and monitoring of projects and programmes to recipient ‘stakeholders’, 2 a goal summarised in the term ‘national ownership’. Ownership has joined a list of funder-agency concerns that in recent years has included governance, institutions, poverty reduction, sustainable development, participation, and decen…
The Ancient Greeks
The ancient Greeks established the very blueprint of Western civilization—our societies, institutions, art, and culture—and thanks to remarkable new findings, we know more about them than ever, and it's all here in this up-to-date introductory volume. Ancient Greecechronicles the rise, decline, resurgence, and ultimate collapse of the Greek empire from its earliest stirrings in the Bronze Age, through the Dark Ages and Classical period, to the de…
Who's helping whom? Layers of culture and workplace behavior
This paper describes an in‐depth, qualitative exploration of helping behavior among software engineers doing the same type of work in the U.S. and India. Consistent with research describing American culture as more individualist and Indian culture as more collectivist, we find that engineers at the American site provide help only to those from whom they expect to need help in the future, whereas engineers at the Indian site are more willing to he…
Vision and Revision in Maya Studies
Assessing adjustment in Africa
International Exchange and the Causes of Backwardness
The unequal development of the productive forces was shown by Marx to be a fundamental law of capitalist accumulation; and, in general, it is this law which produces uneven development on a world scale and inequality among countries. While all Marxists agree that the explanation of inequality in levels of development between countries lies in the laws of uneven development,' there is less agreement upon the mechanism by which this uneven developm…
Who's helping whom? Layers of culture and workplace behavior
This paper describes an in‐depth, qualitative exploration of helping behavior among software engineers doing the same type of work in the U.S. and India. Consistent with research describing American culture as more individualist and Indian culture as more collectivist, we find that engineers at the American site provide help only to those from whom they expect to need help in the future, whereas engineers at the Indian site are more willing to he…
Has recovery begun? “Africa's adjustment in the 1980s” revisited
The Late Postclassic Eastern Frontier of Mesoamerica
A far-reaching frontier culture area emerged along the eastern periphery of southern Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic. Here linguistically diverse peoples (e.g., Rabinal, Pokom, Akahal, Xinca) shared a pattern in material culture. With the frontier commencing along the borders of the Quinche and Cakchiquel conquest states, it is theorized that a principal variable in the development of the frontier cultural pattern was militaristic expansi…
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Utatlan
Recent studies of sixteenth century Quiche-Maya society have resulted in a sociocultural reconstruction based on the integration of archaeological and ethnohistorical data sets. Certain aspects of the internal social system of two contemporaneous settlement centers are examined in the context of this model and correspondences are noted. Contradictions between data sets suggest the applicability of an explicitly dialectical perspective
The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America
Journal Article The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America Get access John Weeks John Weeks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 420, 1 September 1993, Pages 1325–1326, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234264 Published: 01 September 1993
Curses, Diseases and Other Resource Confusions
Natural resource rents, development assistance and unrequited foreign exchange inflows such as remittances relax the balance of payments constraint on economic growth. The failure of some governments to translate these resources into successful development has been attributed to an affliction called ‘Dutch disease’, or, more ominously, to a ‘curse’ associated with the availability of natural resources. This paper examines the disease/curse analys…
An Interpretation of the Central American Crisis
For the last ten years, Central America has been in upheaval, experiencing fundamental social and political change, with the Nicaraguan revolution representing the most dramatic rupture with the past. This revolution, the civil war in El Salvador, two recent coups in Guatemala, and the militarization of Honduras by the United States are all aspects of the crisis currently transforming the region. This article will argue that these dramatic events…
The Expansion of Capital and Uneven Development on a World Scale
This paper explains the divergence among countries in level of development in terms of primary and secondary uneven development, both resulting from the process of accumulation. Primary uneven development arises because of the more dynamic expansion of capitalist countries relatively to countries in which capitalism is incipient. This difference is inherent in the social relations of capital. Secondary uneven development occurs within the group o…
The Intensification of the Assault Against the Working Class in "Revolutionary" Peru
Immigration and Transnationalism
As more Latin American migrants make their way to the United States, the issue of transnationalism has received increased scholarly attention. Transnationalism refers to the delinking of the individual from his or her government and an increase in international ties as a result of the economic globalization that promotes the movement of people, goods, money, and ideas. Prevailing consensus is that the state, particularly in Latin America, is weak…
Poverty Reduction with Growth and Redistribution
In the late 1990s the bilateral and multilateral development agencies placed increasing emphasis on poverty reduction in developing countries. This led to the establishment by the United Nations of the 'International Development Targets' for poverty reduction. The target of poverty reduction might be achieved through faster economic growth alone, through redistribution, or through a combination of the two. This article presents an analytical fram…
Development Strategy and the Economy of Sierra Leone
Part 1 The African crisis and the ideology of structural adjustment: the ideology of structural adjustment the imaginary consensus. Part 2 Multilateral intervention in Sierra Leone: chronology of multilateral intervention the World Bank on Sierra Leone the change in World Bank views. Part 3 The decline of an economy: economic performance over three decades external shocks an economy in crisis. Part 4 Rural and urban incomes: the trend in rural an…
The Differences Between Materialist Theory and Dependency Theory and Why They Matter
Class Alliances and Class Struggle in Peru
Euro Crises and Euro Scams
The euro crisis has been typically presented as excessive fiscal deficits leading to the accumulation of unsustainable public debts. This debt and deficit diagnosis applied most notably in Greece and Italy, but also in Portugal and Spain (the ‘PIGS’). Implicit in much of the analysis, and occasionally explicit, is the suggestion that these were not only profligate but also lazy PIGS that spent beyond their means and abandoned a commitment to inte…
Estimating spatial inequalities of urban child mortality
BACKGROUND: Recent studies indicate that the traditional rural-urban dichotomy pointing to cities as places of better health in the developing world can be complicated by poverty differentials. Knowledge of spatial patterns is essential to understanding the processes that link individual demographic outcomes to characteristics of a place. A significant limitation, however, is the lack of spatial data and methods that offer flexibility in data inp…
The law of value and the analysis of underdevelopment
Karl Marx entitled his first major work on the theory of capitalism an Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy, not, it should be stressed, An Introduction to ... Political Economy. The inclusion of the crucial ‘the critique of provides the key to Marx's break with classical political economy. As much as he respected the contribution of bourgeois writers, especially Ricardo, he did not consider himself a radical member of the political …
Ownership and Donorship
During the 1990s development funders 1 officially incorporated into their rhetoric the ideal of passing control of the design, implementation, and monitoring of projects and programmes to recipient ‘stakeholders’, 2 a goal summarised in the term ‘national ownership’. Ownership has joined a list of funder-agency concerns that in recent years has included governance, institutions, poverty reduction, sustainable development, participation, and decen…
Have Workers in Latin America Gained from Liberalization and Regional Integration
This article examines what has occurred in Latin America’s labor markets as a result of the twin processes of economic liberalization and regional integration. The author argues that the two are closely related, because they both tend to reduce the scope of national policy making. The article begins with a review of labor market conditions in Latin America. Neoliberal ideology predicts that labor market “flexibility” should increase employment, g…
Labour and Politics in Nigeria 1945–71
Journal Article Labour and Politics in Nigeria 1945–71 Get access Labour and Politics in Nigeria 1945–71. By Robin Cohen. London, Ibadan, Nairobi, Lusaka: Heinemann. 1974. 302 pp. Bibliog. Index. £6.00. John Weeks John Weeks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 115–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616969 Published: 01 January 1975
The Political Economy of Labor Transfer
The Theory and Empirical Credibility of Commodity Money
The recent instability in financial markets demonstrated the inadequacy of the mainstream treatment of money and the underlying production base. This has stimulated inter est in the possible role of a money commodity. The fundamental function of monetary theory, an explanation of the general level of prices, is provided through only two analytical mechanisms, quantity-based valueless money or a money commodity. The quantity-based explanation is u…
Hospitals for the 1970s
The most superficial chronology of hospital design in Britain since the end of the war shows a gradually cohering pattern of development from a wide variety of specific solutions towards a small number of general solutions. This process must continue into the '70s, as two problems which have been rumbling in the background of hospital design for a long time are seen clearly to be central issues. These are the problem of obsolescence in hospital b…
Uncertainty, risk, and wealth and income distribution in peasant agriculture
An ethical justification of the market system is that while generating inequality of income distribution it nevertheless provides an equal opportunity for people to improve their material well‐being (1, p. 169). It is argued that the market system creates a society of unequals, but that it is a fluid society in which, though all may not improve absolutely and relatively, the opportunity to do so is randomly distributed through the population. In …
Manpower Development in Africa
The Political Economy of Labor Transfer
Social Change and Economic Development in Nigeria
Journal Article Social Change and Economic Development in Nigeria Get access Social Change and Economic Development in Nigeria. Edited by Ukandi G. Damachi and Hans Dieter Seibel. New York, Washington, London: Praeger. 1973. (Distr. in UK by Pall Mall Press.) 252 pp. Bibliog. (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development.) £7.75. John Weeks John Weeks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar I…
The employment effects of wage changes in poor countries
It is commonly argued that a rise in ‘modern1 sector wage rates in poor countries will reduce employment as a result of factor substitution. However, it is shown that this need not apply, even assuming the existence of high elasticities of substitution, if there are segregated labour markets, as is common in poor countries. When all labour markets are considered, a rise in ‘modern’ sector wage rates may increase total employment opportunities thr…
Labour and Politics in Nigeria 1945–71
Journal Article Labour and Politics in Nigeria 1945–71 Get access Labour and Politics in Nigeria 1945–71. By Robin Cohen. London, Ibadan, Nairobi, Lusaka: Heinemann. 1974. 302 pp. Bibliog. Index. £6.00. John Weeks John Weeks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 1975, Pages 115–116, https://doi.org/10.2307/2616969 Published: 01 January 1975
The Intensification of the Assault Against the Working Class in "Revolutionary" Peru
Men against Tanks
The Sphere of Production and the Analysis of Crisis in Capitalism
Backwardness, Foreign Capital, and Accumulation in the Manufacturing Sector of Peru, 1954-1975
The process of capitalist accumulation is one of crisis and boom, uneven development and the insatiable greed for the surplus labor of one class by another class. In backward countries the essence of capitalist accumulation is no different than in advanced countries. But due to the low development of the forces and relations of production in the former, the manifestations of the basic laws of motion of capitalism may differ from the forms assumed…
Class Alliances and Class Struggle in Peru
Raising wages in the controlled sector
The Process of Accumulation and the “Profit-Squeeze” Hypothesis
Reply to Samir Amin
This reply to Samir Amin is a response to Amin's critique of the Weeks and Dore article, "International Exchange and the Causes of Backwardness. Both the article and the critique appeared in Latin American Perspectives, Volume VI, Number 2 (Spring 1979
International Exchange and the Causes of Backwardness
The unequal development of the productive forces was shown by Marx to be a fundamental law of capitalist accumulation; and, in general, it is this law which produces uneven development on a world scale and inequality among countries. While all Marxists agree that the explanation of inequality in levels of development between countries lies in the laws of uneven development,' there is less agreement upon the mechanism by which this uneven developm…
The Late Postclassic Eastern Frontier of Mesoamerica
A far-reaching frontier culture area emerged along the eastern periphery of southern Mesoamerica during the Late Postclassic. Here linguistically diverse peoples (e.g., Rabinal, Pokom, Akahal, Xinca) shared a pattern in material culture. With the frontier commencing along the borders of the Quinche and Cakchiquel conquest states, it is theorized that a principal variable in the development of the frontier cultural pattern was militaristic expansi…
The Differences Between Materialist Theory and Dependency Theory and Why They Matter
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Utatlan
Recent studies of sixteenth century Quiche-Maya society have resulted in a sociocultural reconstruction based on the integration of archaeological and ethnohistorical data sets. Certain aspects of the internal social system of two contemporaneous settlement centers are examined in the context of this model and correspondences are noted. Contradictions between data sets suggest the applicability of an explicitly dialectical perspective
Capital and Exploitation
Professor Weeks proposes that the key to Marx's critique of capitalist society is the labor theory of value. A commodity-producing society, he argues, necessarily gives rise to a capitalist society, so that commodity production and the exploitation of labor are inseparably linked. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the dis…
A Note on Underconsumptionist Theory and the Labor Theory of Value
Equilibrium, Uneven Development and the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
On the Issue of Capitalist Circulation and the Concepts Appropriate to its Analysis
International Relations and Politics
Locational Analysis and the Perception of Social Groups at Chisalin, Guatemala
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