Global Shift, Sixth Edition : Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy
ISBN: 9781609180065 | 1609180062
Edition: 6thFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Pub. Date: 1/5/2011
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Widely adopted throughout the world, this definitive text comprehensively examines how the global economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken provides a balanced yet critical analysis of globalization processes and debates. The text synthesizes a wealth of data on production, distribution, consumption, and innovation, including detailed case studies of key global industries. Students learn how the global economic map is being shaped and reshaped by dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, states, consumers, la... MORE
1. Introduction: Questioning Globalization I. The Shifting Contours of the Global Economy 2. Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy II. Processes of Global Shift 3. Tangled Webs: Unraveling Complexity in the Global Economy 4. Technological Change: \u0022Gales of Creative Destruction\u0022 5. Transnational Corporations: The Primary \u0022Movers and Shapers\u0022 of the Global Economy 6. The State Really Does Matter 7. The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration III... MORE
Peter Dicken is Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He has held visiting academic appointments at universities and research institutes in Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden, and the United States, and lectured in many other countries throughout Europe and Asia. He is an Academician of the Social Sciences, is a recipient of the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and of the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
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