States Versus Markets in the World-System

States Versus Markets in the World-System examines the proposition that states and markets are bound together by inextricable symbiotic ties, while at the same time always standing in tension with each other. The first part of this volume focuses on a particular commodity market in each of three capitalist Third World countries, revealing the constraints international markets impose on state strategies as well as the state's role in shaping their involvement in commodity markets. The second section looks at the geopolitics of Great Britain as an imperialist power, and at the political-economic objectives of the post-colonial state. The authors show how markets, constructed by a hegemonic power, shape the nature of the post-colonial state apparatus. They also show how these markets penetrate peripheral areas and are affected by political events on the periphery and among major political powers. Finally the authors consider the unique role of markets in state-socialist societies, suggesting that markets are tailored to state-dominated social arrangements.Evans, Peter is the author of 'States Versus Markets in the World-System' with ISBN 9780803925106 and ISBN 0803925107.