The Political Economy of Robots: Prospects for Prosperity and Peace in the Automated 21st Century
by Ryan Kiggins (Editor)

About the Author
Ryan Kiggins is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Central Oklahoma, USA. He edited The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements: Rising Powers and Technological Change, which was published as part of the International Political Economy series in 2015.

About this book
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.

Table of contents

• Robots and Political Economy
• The Politics of Global Value Chains
• Drug Smuggling and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State/Non-state Symbiosis
• Policy Implications of People Analytics and the Automated Workplace
• Automatic Medicine? Technology and the Future of Primary Health Care
• Repressive Robots and the Radical Possibilities of Emancipated Automation
• The Political Economy of Bots: Theory and Method in the Study of Social Automation
• The Safe Hand: Liquidity, Money, and Financial Innovation
• Against Our Better Judgment: Practical Wisdom in an Age of Smart(er) Machines
• Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Policy Decision-Making: A Crisis in International Relations Theory?
• Diplomacy’s Lesson’s Learned: First World War Submarine Warfare and the 21st Century Drone
• Conflict, Cohesion, and Comrades in Arms: Social Implications of Robotics in the Military
• Robots Writing Chinese and Fighting Underwater
• Armed Drones: Automation, Autonomy, and Ethical Decision-Making
• Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Plight of the Non-combatant
• Outlook for Prosperity and Peace in the Emergent Global Political Economy of Robots
  

Series: International Political Economy Series
Length: 336 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 edition (September 18, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3319514652
ISBN-13: 978-3319514659