Social Ecography : International trade, network analysis, and an Emmanuelian conceptualization of ecological unequal exchange
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Summary, in English
Using formal tools from social network analysis, the theory is tested on empirical trade data for two commodity types – primary agricultural goods and fuel commodities – for the period 1995-1999. As the selected commodities can be seen as adequate representations of the third Ricardian production factor, i.e. natural resources, ecological unequal exchange as conceptualized in this thesis is more in line with the original Emmanuelian factor-cost theory than previous approaches. Here, similar to Emmanuel’s formulation, it is a theory about factor cost differentials.
Whereas the theory mostly holds true in the case of fuel commodities, the analysis of primary agricultural commodities actually points to an inverse relationship between structural positionality and ecological unequal exchange. This could point to a fundamental difference between these two types of commodities, for instance as reflected in an observed ecological Leontief paradox, which underlines the need for more detailed, and less typological, treatments of ecological unequal exchange.
Department/s
Publishing year
2010
Language
English
Publication/Series
Lund studies in human ecology
Volume
11
Full text
Document type
Dissertation
Publisher
Department of Social and Economic Geography, Lund University
Topic
- Social and Economic Geography
Keywords
- ecological unequal exchange
- commodity trade
- ecological economics
- world-system analysis
- network analysis
- human ecology
- ecography
Status
Published
Supervisor
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1403-5022
- ISBN: 978-91-628-8138-2
Defence date
11 September 2010
Defence time
10:00
Defence place
Världen, Geocentrum 1, Sölvegatan 10, Lund, Sweden
Opponent
- Richard York (Dr)