The Political Economy of Robots Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century

The Political Economy of Robots Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century / edited by Ryan Kiggins.

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace. Focusing on robots, information communication technologies, and other automation technologies, it offers brief interventions that assess how automation may alter extant political, social, and economic i...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kiggins, Ryan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:International Political Economy Series,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Political economy.
Robotics.
Automation.
International economics.
International organization.
Globalization.
Peace.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction (Kiggins)
  • Chapter 2. The Politics of Global Value Chains (Cox and Wartenbe)
  • Chapter 3. Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-State Symbiosis (Carey and Marak)
  • Chapter 4. Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace (Sharp)
  • Chapter 5. Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care (Skinner and Franz)
  • Chapter 6. Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation (Walsh and Sculos)
  • Chapter 7. The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation (Woolley)
  • Chapter 8. The Safe Hand (Gatch)
  • Chapter 9. Against our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines (Thiele)
  • Chapter 10. Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory? (Kiggins)
  • Chapter 11. Diplomacy’s Lesson’s Learned: First World War submarine warfare and the 21st Century drone (Olmstead)
  • Chapter 12. Conflict, Cohesion and Comrades in Arms:  Social Implications of Robotics in the Military (Manjikian)
  • Chapter 13. Robots writing Chinese and fighting underwater (Austin)
  • Chapter 14. Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant (Arkin).

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