Tony C Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tony C Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tony C |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tufts University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1034-2376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Technological change in Capitalism
Most social theorists agree with Adam Smith’s assertion that ‘consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production’, with technology serving as a means to that end. Marx acknowledged the great benefits that capitalism’s unprecedented technological dynamism has brought to humanity. For Marx, however, the ‘end and purpose ’ of capitalist production is the accumulation of surplus value. From this perspective technology in capitalism is, first a…
Enforcing the Peace
Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past. By Kimberly Zisk Marten. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 208p. $27.95. This instructive volume aims to sort out the reasons that peacekeeping missions today so frequently fail. Kimberly Zisk Marten throws a wide net in investigating why. While her main case studies are Haiti, the Balkans, East Timor, and Afghanistan, she also makes more passing reference to a number of other recent …
America’s Imperial Burden
A Short Comment on the “Models of Socialism” Discussion
The Underdevelopment of Development Literature
As a vehicle for the growing association of southern nationalists and Marxists, dependency theory is an important part of the history of our times, something much more than a school of academic writing. Whatever the varieties of analysis existing within this school (and there are many), a major historiographie shortcoming is common to most of its literature: having grasped the Hegelian insight that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,d…
The Underdevelopment of Development Literature
As a vehicle for the growing association of southern nationalists and Marxists, dependency theory is an important part of the history of our times, something much more than a school of academic writing. Whatever the varieties of analysis existing within this school (and there are many), a major historiographie shortcoming is common to most of its literature: having grasped the Hegelian insight that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,d…
The Underdevelopment of Development Literature
As a vehicle for the growing association of southern nationalists and Marxists, dependency theory is an important part of the history of our times, something much more than a school of academic writing. Whatever the varieties of analysis existing within this school (and there are many), a major historiographie shortcoming is common to most of its literature: having grasped the Hegelian insight that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,d…
A Short Comment on the “Models of Socialism” Discussion
America’s Imperial Burden
Enforcing the Peace
Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past. By Kimberly Zisk Marten. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. 208p. $27.95. This instructive volume aims to sort out the reasons that peacekeeping missions today so frequently fail. Kimberly Zisk Marten throws a wide net in investigating why. While her main case studies are Haiti, the Balkans, East Timor, and Afghanistan, she also makes more passing reference to a number of other recent …
Technological change in Capitalism
Most social theorists agree with Adam Smith’s assertion that ‘consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production’, with technology serving as a means to that end. Marx acknowledged the great benefits that capitalism’s unprecedented technological dynamism has brought to humanity. For Marx, however, the ‘end and purpose ’ of capitalist production is the accumulation of surplus value. From this perspective technology in capitalism is, first a…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (2 works)