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To be presented at the XV ISA World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 1:30-5:30pm Sessions on “American Primacy or American Hegemony?” Research Committee on Comparative Sociology, organized by Neil Smelser and Mattei Dogan.

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ABSTRACT:
Abstract: Revised estimates of world GDP, population and GDP per capita published by Angus Maddison (2001) make possible a quantitative reexamination of the trajectory of the United States in world historical perspective and comparisons between the U.S. economic hegemony of the twentieth century with the Dutch hegemony of the seventeenth century and the British hegemony of the nineteenth century. We also track the trajectories of challengers to reflect on the future of hegemonic rivalry.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Chris Chase-Dunn, Rebecca Giem, Andrew Jorgenson, Thomas Reifer, John Rogers, and Shoon Lio, "The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitative Reflection" (July 2, 2002). The Institute for Research on World-Systems. Paper irows8.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/irows/irows8