Pendekatan ekonomi politik komunikasi menjadi sangat relevan dan makin meningkat saat ini dengan adanya kecenderungan industri media dan teknologi komunikasi yang berkembang pesat. Media televisi merupakan sebuah industri yang berkembang dan menjadi aspek utama dalam menyedot perhatian masyarakat khususnya bagi yang memiliki kepentingan politik dan bisnis. Hingga kini media televisi masih menja…
Systematic study for an understanding of the laws of political economy is to be found no farther back than the sixteenth century. The history of political economy is not the history of economic institutions, any more than the history of mathematics is the history of every object possessing length, breadth, and thickness. Economic history is the story of the gradual evolution in the thought of m…
Comparatively focusing on the cultural representations of two historic stock market crashes (fin de e`cle Argentina and Chile in the early 1980s), this article explores the stock market theory of alue that emerges out of a reactionary nineteenth century critique of exchange value and the so-called new economic paradigm based on Information technology. Keywords: Argentina; Chile; stock market…
This article examines the shifting representations of and discourses produced about Chinese salesmen and their collaborators in the small West African nation of Togo. It suggests that in this context representations of China’s so-called New Scramble for Africa are troublesome, namely because they tend to silence the role of Togolese women traders as producers and as central historical and eco…