Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience and the Department of Socioeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business would like to invite you to a lecture on

The Limits to Globalization – Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development

Lecture / discussion

Eric Sheppard, Professor for Economic Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will present the central theses of his recent book “The Limits to Globalization” published by Oxford University Press.

Speaker: Eric Sheppard, UCLA

Organizers: Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience and Department of Socioeconomics, WU

Location: 1020 Vienna, Welthandelsplatz 1, Teaching Center, TC.1.01.OeNB,

Date: Monday, June 26, 6:00 -8:00 pm

Contact: wgi-team@wu.ac.at

Abstract:

The uneven geographies that are bound up with capitalist globalization undermine its capacity to bring prosperity to all. In a geographically differentiated world, the ‘free’ markets propounded by neoliberal visions of capitalism cannot be self-regulating and harmonious; their creation and maintenance require continual spatio-temporal interventions by extra-market forces, and market-based principles are not adequate for redressing political, cultural or biophysical entanglements. Capitalism exhibits out-of-equilibrium dynamical complexity characterized by path-dependence, instability, unpredictability and conflict. It follows that a territory’s economic performance cannot be explained by place-based thinking, or addressed through place-based strategies, but depends on asymmetric connectivities with the wider world. Rather than the solution to impoverishment, globalizing capitalism is productive of social and geographical inequality, making it necessary to provincialise globalizing capitalism, drawing on peripheral experiences and encounters with it to take seriously alternative, more-than-capitalist experiments and trajectories.

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https://www.wu.ac.at/en/wgi/

https://www.wu.ac.at/en/department-socioeconomics/

Hope to seeing you there,

Jürgen Essletzbichler

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Univ. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Essletzbichler

Institute of Economic Geography and GIScience

Department of SocioEconomics

Vienna University of Economics and Business

Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria

juergen.essletzbichler@wu.ac.at

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