Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy

The wholly rewritten third edition of this widely acclaimed text continues to offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date description of how the global economy works today. Moving beyond globalization hype, Dicken carefully introduces students to the economic, political, and technological processes that are creating global shifts in economic activity and affecting local communities in highly uneven ways. Like the previous editions, the book focuses on the interrelated actions of transnational corporations (imbedded within intricate business networks) and states (which act as containers, regulators, and competitors) within a volatile technological environment. Several entirely new chapters are included, and all chapters are revised to reflect the latest available data and theoretical debates. Of special utility are detailed case studies of key global industries and more than 200 fully updated figures and tables.

About the Author :
Peter Dicken is Professor of Economic Geography, University of Manchester, UK. He has held visiting positions at universities and business schools in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Review :
"Reflecting the many ways our understanding of globalization has changed and become more sophisticated in recent years, the third edition of Global Shift, like its predecessors, is an invaluable text for both large undergraduate classes and advanced graduate seminars. It takes us beyond pat answers to provide a rich set of interdisciplinary tools and analytical paradigms that help us get a handle on the complex causal forces at work, as well as the vexing tradeoffs concerning globalization's costs and benefits. No other book on the market contains as much information and clear-headed thinking about the global economy." --Gary Gereffi, Department of Sociology, Duke University "A first-rate and eminently readable work, with a unique blend of empirical and conceptual material and an analytical depth rarely achieved in textbooks. The third edition of Global Shift continues to be one of the most useful, interesting, and readable texts in the field of economic geography. I thoroughly recommend it both to students of geography and to readers in other disciplines who are interested in seeing what contemporary economic geography is really all about." --John Holmes, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada ""Global Shift" has become a landmark and a classic. It remains a popular text whose strength lies in its clear presentation and analysis of empirical data and in its focus on the production chain. This alone makes it a welcome corrective for the many speculative works on globalization based, as Dicken says, more 'on rhetoric and hype than on reality'."--"Review of Radical Political Economics" "This is a comprehensive work, providing historical perspective; analyses of the literature; the political and technological drivers of change;...and finally the most recent issues of jobs and of global governance...."Global Shift" is a valuable source book." --"The Global Business Network Book Club Newsletter" ., ."by far the best and most readable account of the past three decades of economic globalization. Replete with maps, graphs, and tables, the book offers the clearest and most complete exposition of the scale and depth of the transformation currently affecting all societies." -"-Lingua Franca" " Global Shift has become a landmark and a classic. It remains a popular text whose strength lies in its clear presentation and analysis of empirical data and in its focus on the production chain. This alone makes it a welcome corrective for the many speculative works on globalization based, as Dicken says, more 'on rhetoric and hype than on reality'."-- Review of Radical Political Economics "This is a comprehensive work, providing historical perspective; analyses of the literature; the political and technological drivers of change; ...and finally the most recent issues of jobs and of global governance.... Global Shift is a valuable source book." -- The Global Business Network Book Club Newsletter , .."by far the best and most readable account of the past three decades of economic globalization. Replete with maps, graphs, and tables, the book offers the clearest and most complete exposition of the scale and depth of the transformation currently affecting all societies." - -Lingua Franca ""Global Shift" has become a landmark and a classic. It remains a popular text whose strength lies in its clear presentation and analysis of empirical data and in its focus on the production chain. This alone makes it a welcome corrective for the many speculative works on globalization based, as Dicken says, more 'on rhetoric and hype than on reality'."--"Review of Radical Political Economics" "This is a comprehensive work, providing historical perspective; analyses of the literature; the political and technological drivers of change; ...and finally the most recent issues of jobs and of global governance...."Global Shift" is a valuable source book." --"The Global Business Network Book Club Newsletter" .,."by far the best and most readable account of the past three decades of economic globalization. Replete with maps, graphs, and tables, the book offers the clearest and most complete exposition of the scale and depth of the transformation currently affecting all societies." -"-Lingua Franca" ""Global Shift has become a landmark and a classic. It remains a popular text whose strength lies in its clear presentation and analysis of empirical data and in its focus on the production chain. This alone makes it a welcome corrective for the many speculative works on globalization based, as Dicken says, more 'on rhetoric and hype than on reality'."--"Review of Radical Political Economics "This is a comprehensive work, providing historical perspective; analyses of the literature; the political and technological drivers of change; ...and finally the most recent issues of jobs and of global governance...."Global Shift is a valuable source book." --"The Global Business Network Book Club Newsletter ..".by far the best and most readable account of the past three decades of economic globalization. Replete with maps, graphs, and tables, the book offers the clearest and most complete exposition of the scale and depth of the transformation currently affecting all societies." -"-Lingua Franca