Sociological Forum, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Mar., 2009), pp. 22-46 (25 pages) The structural theory of ecologically unequal exchange posits that through the vertical flow of exports from lower-income ...

The concept of delinking has gained traction recently among some political movements in the global South, including with an ...

Israel has a long history of unequal prisoner exchanges. Since 1982, it has released thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a handful of Israeli soldiers and civilians, some ...

The demographic, ecological, and infrastructural effects of extractive economies differ significantly from those of productive economies. Analysis of underdevelopment in extractive export economies ...

New research explores unequal exchange in the coffee industry. Researchers cite a range of negative consequences that coffee cultivation contributes to, including: malaria vulnerability, decreased ...

Dr. Maggie Grotzinger A few weeks ago when I watched the exchange of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for more than five years, with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in ...

In a recent working article, Nievas and Piketty (2025) deploy the concept of unequal exchange to examine global trade flows in the last two centuries. Yet, they do not engage in any systematic way ...

The high levels of consumption enjoyed by wealthy countries in the Global North are only possible because of mass appropriation of labor from the population of the Global South. This is evidenced by ...

Every time The publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your inbox! Enter your email By clicking “Sign up”, you agree to receive emails from Business ...

New research led by Kelly Austin, associate professor of sociology at Lehigh, explores unequal exchange in the coffee industry. She cites a range of negative consequences that coffee cultivation ...