From: Jurriaan Bendien (adsl675281@TISCALI.NL)
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 17:50:59 EDT
I'm not an academic, but you could try some of Prof. David Chandler's works http://www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-63-smhp=1 which among many other things investigate critically what happens when the West tries to set up public administrations and enforce the rule of law in (often third-world) conflict zones. I believe much of the discussion nowadays revolves around the concept of "failed states" on which e.g. Prof. Fukuyama comments, i.e. on the ability of political institutions/organisations to integrate people into (civil) society as such. http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4186&_userreference=1146568663E0C8E9474541FC6440C9B798 Dr Christian Girschner in his latest book Die Dienstleistungsgesellschaft [The Services Society] argues that the primary/secondary/tertiary industry concept does not really make much sense from a Marxist point of view. http://www.papyrossa.de/dienstleistung.htm Regrettably Girschner's book hasn't been translated. The official output or activity classification used, may not make much sense of the real division of labor or product-chains involved, and services may be commodities, or contribute directly (be an input to) to commodity production. The "tertiary sector" may in fact be used more as an ideological notion, than describing the socio-economic reality. Jurriaan
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