Weaving Webs of Connections: The Roles of Information and Communication Services during Waves of Globalisation.
Information flows underlie the process of economic integration within countries and globalization on an international scale. The successful movements of labour, goods, or capital usually has to be preceded by communication. The main institutional actors facilitating these information flows since the First Globalization are Post, Telegraph and Telephone firms, public and private, whose extensive spread under the idea of universal access touch essentially everyone. PTT firms and agencies, however, not only affected other sectors through information transmission, they also horizontally integrated and competed in areas like news, transport, travel and especially financial services.
This panel has two main, related focus points: First, how did postal and telecommunication operations spread throughout countries and what impact did this spread have on contemporary local economic conditions and modern development outcomes? Second, what impact had the involvement of postal operators in financial services on the economy and the development of the financial sector?
Organizer(s)
- Florian Ploeckl, University of Adelaide, Ploeckl
Session members
- Mark J Crowley, Wuhan University, Crowley
- Markus Lampe, WU Vienna, Lampe
- Tom Velk, McGill University, Velk
- Terence Hines, Pace University, Hines
- Robert W Dimand, Brock University, Dimand
- Elizabeth Murphy, McGill University, Murphy
- Mengyue Zhao, McGill University, Zhao
- Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University, Jaremski
- Elisabeth Perlman, US Census, Perlman
- Steven Sprick Schuster, Colgate University, Sprick Schuster
- Claudia Rei, University of Warwick, Rei
- Jessica Vechbanyongratana, Chulalongkorn University, Vechbanyongratana
Proposed discussant(s)
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