The Political Economy of Robots

Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century, 2nd edition
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-95170-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 417 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 681 g

Reihe: International Political Economy Series

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 institutions, norms, and practices that comprise the global political economy. In doing so, this collection deals directly with such issues as automated production, trade, war, state sanctioned robot violence, financial speculation, transnational crime, and policy decision making. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to students, scholars and practitioners grappling with political, economic, and social problems that arise from rapid technological change that automates the prospects for human prosperity and peace. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

David Kiggins, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Robots in Political Economy.- Chapter 2: The Politics of Global Value Chains.- Chapter 3: The Safe Hand: Liquidity, Money, and Financial Innovation.- Chapter 4: The New Algorithms Reshaping Human Labor: Policy Options for the Automated Workplace.- Chapter 5: Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care.- Chapter 6: AI in Public Education: Humble Beginnings and Revolutionary Potential.- Chapter 7: Human Prospects in a World of Smart(er) Machines.- Chapter 8: Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-State Symbiosis.- Chapter 9: Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-State Symbiosis.- Chapter 10: Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation.- Chapter 11: Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation.- Chapter 12: Diplomacy's Lessons Learned: First World War Submarine Warfare and the 21st Century Drone.- Chapter 13: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory?.- Chapter 14: Comrades in Arms Revisited: Shifting Ground in the Era of AI and Robotics in Warfighting.- Chapter 15: Robots writing Chinese and Fighting Underwater.- Chapter 16: Armed Drones: Automation, Autonomy, and Ethical Decision-Making.- Chapter 17: Armed Drones: Automation, Autonomy, and Ethical Decision-Making.- Chapter 18: The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation.- Chapter 19: Outlook for Prosperity and Peace in the Emergent Global Political Economy of Robots.

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan Kiggins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA. He edited , published as part of the International Political Economy series in 2015; and co-edited , also part of the the International Political Economy series  in 2021.