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the key resource on economic globalization in the social science literature.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Questioning Globalization What in the World Is Going on? Conflicting Perspectives on 'Globalization' Grounding 'Globalization': Geography Really Does Matter PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy What's New? The Imprint of Past Geographies Roller-Coasters and Interconnections The Changing Contours of the Global Economic Map: Global Shifts in Production, Trade and FDI The Dynamic Global Economic Map PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy An Analytical Point of Entry Institutional Macrostructures of the Global Economy Global Production Networks Even in a Globalizing World, Economic Activities Are Geographically Localized Networks of Networks Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction' Technology and Economic Transformation Processes of Technological Change: An Evolutionary Perspective Time-Space Shrinking Technologies Technological Innovations in Products and Processes Geographies of Innovation Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy Why Firms Transnationalize How Firms Transnationalize TNCs as 'Networks within Networks' Configuring the TNCs' Internal Networks TNCs within Networks of Externalized Relationships Perpetual Change: Reshaping TNCs' Internal and External Networks The Myth of the 'Global' Corporation The State Really Does Matter 'The State Is Dead' - Oh No It Isn't! States as Containers States as Regulators States as Competitors States as Collaborators The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration The Ties That Bind Bargaining Processes between TNCs and States PART THREE: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SECTORS 'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries Beginning at the Beginning Production Circuits in the Extractive Industries Global Shifts in the Extractive Industries Volatile Demand Technologies of Exploring, Extracting, Refining, Distributing The Centrality of State Involvement in the Extractive Industries Corporate Strategies in the Extractive Industries Resources, Reserves and Futures 'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries Transformation of the Food Economy: The 'Local' Becomes 'Global' Agro-Food Production Circuits Global Shifts in the Agro-Food Industries Consumer Choices - and Consumer Resistances Transforming Technologies in Agro-Food Production The Role of the State Corporate Strategies in the Agro-Food Industries 'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries Changing Rules The Clothing Production Circuit Global Shifts in the Clothing Industries Changing Patterns of Consumption Production Costs and Technology The Role of the State and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement Corporate Strategies in the Clothing Industries Regionalizing Production Networks in the Clothing Industries 'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry All Change? The Automobile Production Circuit Global Shifts in Automobile Production and Trade Changing Patterns of Consumption Technological Change in the Automobile Industry The Role of the State Corporate Strategies in the Automobile Industry Regionalizing Production Networks in the Automobile Industry 'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business Services - Especially Finance The Centrality of Advanced Business Services The Structure of Advanced Business Services Dynamics of the Markets for Advanced Business Services Technological Innovation and Advanced Business Services The Role of the State: Regulation, De-Regulation, Re-Regulation Corporate Strategies in Advanced Business Services Geographies of Advanced Business Services 'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics and Distribution Services Taking Distribution for Granted The Structure of Logistics and Distribution Services The Dynamics of the Market for Logistics Services Technological Innovation and Logistics and Distribution Services The Role of the State: Regulation and Deregulation of Logistics and Distribution Services Corporate Strategies in Logistics and Distribution Services Logistics 'Places': Key Geographical Nodes on the Global Logistics Map PART FOUR: WINNING AND LOSING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks Placing Places in GPNs Creating, Enhancing and Capturing Value in GPNs Upgrading (or Downgrading) of Local Economies within GPNs 'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks Production-Distribution-Consumption as a System of Materials Flows and Balances Disturbing the Delicate Balance of Life on Earth: Damaging the Earth's Atmosphere Fouling the Nest: Creating and Disposing of Waste Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters Location Matters Incomes and Poverty Where Will the Jobs Come From? Populations on the Move Making the World a Better Place Global Shifts: Pasts and Futures 'The Best of All Possible Worlds'? TNCs and Corporate Social Responsibility States and Issues of Global Governance A Better World

About the Author :
Peter Dicken is recognized as a leading world authority on economic globalization. He is Emeritus Professor of Geography in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK, and has held visiting academic appointments at universities and research institutes throughout the world. He is an Academician of the Social Sciences, a recipient of the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Review :
A magnificent achievement. Since the publication of the first edition of Global Shift in 1986, Peter Dicken has constructed in successive editions a phenomenal record of the changing geography of capital accumulation on a world scale. This wholly new sixth edition of 2010, is an essential companion for anyone concerned to understand the rapid geographical shifts occurring in the world's economic power relations in these stressful and troubled times David Harvey Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York A masterful new edition of a masterful text. Once again, Peter Dicken is at the cutting edge of the analysis of economic globalization and global trends. Global Shift is the authoritative text on these issues David Held Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE Global Shift, sixth edition, continues to deconstruct globalization to show that distance (economic geography) still matters. Dicken uses insights from international business research to demonstrate that world business activity is more regional than global. Multinational enterprises are at the hub of global production networks and service delivery; they interact with governments and generally act as agents of economic development. In short economic geography and international business are closely aligned in their approach to globalization Alan Rugman Henley Business School, University of Reading I am impressed by how this book continues to evolve. It has opened out to new sectors and new themes, including extractive industries and the environmental implications of a globalized economy. Global Shift is a tremendous resource; it covers a vast empirical range but is always closely attentive to the underlying processes, impacts, and meanings of globalization. Dicken's approach beautifully integrates the economic and the political with problems of equity and ethics - a rare accomplishment. Ideal for undergraduate classes across the social sciences Erica Schoenberger Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University The premier text for middle and upper-level courses in economic geography and globalization. The sixth edition provides detailed treatment of the current global financial crisis and a thorough assessment of globalization's winners and losers. It contains entirely new chapters on mineral extractive industries and on the environmental implications of global production networks. Global Shift continues to be a 'must read' for all students of the global economy Robin Leichenko Department of Geography, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey I am among the privileged to read and use Dicken's Global Shift as a reference text for my writings and as an elective text in my Urban Geography courses since its 1986 first edition...Global Shift's sixth edition is a vital text comprehensively reviewing how global economy functions and how enjoyable or unpleasant are its impacts on people and places. In the sixth edition Dicken offers an updated critical analysis of globalization followed by the continuing theoretical, in some respect political, on the debate on its nature, impact and durability. -- Baruch A. Kipnis


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857023438
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • No of Pages: 632
  • ISBN-10: 0857023438
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy


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