Geoeconomic Uses of Global Warming: The “Green” Technological Revolution and the Role of the Semi-Periphery
Geoeconomic Uses of Global Warming: The “Green” Technological Revolution and the Role of the Semi-Periphery
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全球变暖的地缘经济用途：“绿色”技术革命和半外围地区的作用
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10.5195/jwsr.2018.700
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2018
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P. Souza
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作者：
D. Hurtado;P. Souza
虽然一些半边缘国家将可再生能源视为建设其工业和技术能力的机会，但核心国家和全球治理组织一直在推动“绿色增长”。自2008年全球金融危机以来，全球变暖一直被用作大企业的催化剂。随着全球经济可能进入“绿色”技术革命的第一阶段，新熊彼特主义经济学家重新获得了能见度。我们打算表明，由于缺乏世界系统的观点，新熊彼特派的贡献如何出现严重的不一致，削弱了他们对非核心经济体在技术变革中的作用的概念化。我们考察了阿根廷风能的曲折轨迹，以展示一个半外围经济体在试图发展自己的技术和工业能力时所面临的具体的组织、制度和宏观经济限制。熊彼特关于“绿色工业革命”的新观点必须被理解为只适用于核心经济子系统，这似乎也需要通过我们所说的“半外围新自由主义”来实现世界体系的两极分化，即对半外围国家施加必要的外围力量，以振兴核心经济。
While some semi-peripheral countries have seen renewable energies as an opportunity to build their industrial and technological capacities, core countries and global governance organizations have been promoting “green growth.” Since the 2008 global financial crisis, global warming has been used as a catalyst for big business. As the global economy may be entering the first stage of a “green” technology revolution, neo-Schumpeterian economists have regained visibility. We intend to show how, as a consequence of the lack of a world-systemic perspective, crucial inconsistencies arise in neo-Schumpeterian contributions that weaken their conceptualization of the role of non-core economies in technological change. We examine the case of the tortuous trajectory of wind energy in Argentina to show the specific organizational, institutional, and macroeconomic constraints faced by a semi-peripheral economy as it attempts to develop its own technological and industrial capacities. The neo-Schumpeterian view of the “green industrial revolution” must be understood as valid only for the core-economy subsystem, which seems to require as well polarization of the world-system through what we call “semi-peripheral neoliberalism,” a peripheralizing force upon the semi-periphery necessary in order to rejuvenate core economies.