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Walter Goldfrank

  
Walter Goldfrank
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Emeriti
    Email:  wally@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4461 Office
(831) 459-3516 Message
    Office:  College 8, 305
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: by appointment only

Research Focus 
Global political economy with special attention to the rise and decline of nations; social movements and revolutions; export agriculture and its impact on environmental and social conditions; social change; historical sociology; world systems.

Education History 
B.A., Harvard
Certificate in Sociology, University of Madrid
Ph.D., Columbia University

Selected Publications 
Goldfrank, W.L. 2000. "Paradigm Regained? The Rules of Wallerstein's World-Sysem Method," Journal of World-System Research XI, 2.

Goldfrank, W.L., Derlugian, G.M. 2000. "Introduciton: Repetition, Variation, and Transmutation as Scenarios for the Twenty-First Century," in G.M. Derlugian and S.L. Greer, eds. Questioning Geopolitics. Westport, CT.:Praeger.

Goldfrank, W. L. 1999. "Beyond Cycles of Hegemony: Economic, Political, and Military Factors." In V. Bornschier and C. Chase-Dunn, eds. The Future of Global Conflict. London and Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications.

Goldfrank, W.L. 1999. "Cycles, Spirals, and Transcendence," Political Power & Social Theory, 13.

Goldfrank, W.L. Goodman, D., and Szasz, A., eds. 1999. Ecology and the World System. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press.

Goldfrank, W. L. 1995. "Fresh Demand: The Consumption of Chilean Produce in the USA," in G. Gereffi and M. Korzeniewicz, eds., Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Goldfrank, W. L. 1993. "Peripheries in a Changing World Order," in J. Kakkonen, ed., Politics and Sustainable Growth in the Arctic. Aldershot: Dartmouth.

Goldfrank, W. L. 1990. "Current Issues in World System Theory." Review XIII, 2:251-254.

Goldfrank, W. L.1990. "State, Market, and Agriculture in Pinochet's Chile." In W. G. Martin, ed., Semi-peripheral States in the World-Economy. Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press.

Goldfrank, W. L., Korzeniewicz, R.P. and Korzeniewicz, M. 1995. "Vines and Wines in the World Economy," in P. McMichael, ed. Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy. Westport, CT.: Greenwood.

Goldfrank, W. L.1987. "Socialism or Barbarism? The Long Run Fate of the Capitalist World-Economy." In T. Boswell and A. Bergesen, eds., America's Changing Role in the World-System. New York: Praeger Publishers, pp. 85-92.

Goldfrank, W. L. 1981."Silk and Steel: Italy and Japan between the Two World Wars." Comparative Social Research, 4:297-315. Reprinted in E. Burke, ed., Global Crises and Social Movements. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1987.