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AB - Journal of World-Systems Research Volume l ,Book Review # 1, 1995 http ://jwsr.ucr.edu/ ISSN 1076-156X Review of: W. Warren Wagar. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. xi+ 324 pp. ISBN 0-226- 86902-4, $14.95 (paper). Reviewed by Terry Boswell, Department of Sociology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Copyright ( c) Terry Boswell v.10/4/95 Utopian visions of possible new world orders proliferate every 50 to 60 years with the long stagnation of the Kondraetieff economic cycle, according to the research of Edgar Kiser and Kriss A. Dra~s ("Changes in the Core of the World-System and the Production of Utopian Literature in Great Britain and the United Staet~, 1883-1975," AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 1987). They found that the publication of utopian novels a~ a percentage of all novels published clusters in the downturn pha~e of the Kondraetieffwave, peaking during the period when economic conditions turn for the better after a long crisis. Hegemonic decline amplifies the cultural response to the economy. Kiser and Dra~s use the publication of utopian novels a~ something of a [Page 2] temperature gauge of the prevailing cultural weather. The relationship between ideological and economic conditions is turbulent at best. But 
TI - Review of: "Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism" by Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniewicz, eds.
JF - Journal of World-Systems Research
DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1995.56
DA - 1995-08-25
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