world's technology frontier, and at the same time, measure relative standings of major industrial nations in their … Israel. By considering the most popular technologies per each decade, we observe a clear pattern in the evolution of world …

which finance capital could export its excessive surplus. The next version posited a neo-imperial world of monopoly … intermediation. The third script postulated a World System where surplus is imported from the dependent periphery into the financial … its own productive fuel and is now trying to financialize the rest of the world in order to use the system's external …

attributed to world growth slowdown (decade effect) and East Asia-specific effects. In particular, it was found that the …