Remaking the global economy : economic-geographical perspectives

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Remaking the global economy : economic-geographical perspectives

edited by Jamie Peck and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung

SAGE, 2003

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Bibliography: p. [231]-252

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`This book skillfully navigates the shoals of place and space to explain the intricacies of globalization. For those interested in the changing geography of global capitalism, Peck and Yeung is a "must read"' - James H Mittelman, American University Remaking the Global Economy offers a state -of-the-art survey of geographical perspectives on the restructuring and reorganization of the global economy. With contributions from leading figures in the globalization debate, the book explores the latest thinking and research, as well as the enduring controversies, across a range of interrelated issues, including: - firm strategies and business knowledge - interactions between firms and nation states - production and innovation systems - transnationalism and labour markets - state restructuring. Each of the specially commissioned chapters presents interdisciplinary insights into the complex processes of economic globalization and their impact on the organization of firms, markets, industries, regions, and institutions. An integrated and comprehensive account, this is a resume of the latest work in the literature on globalization that will provide a detailed map of the geography of the global economy.

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Making Global Connections - Henry Wai-chung Yeung and Jamie Peck A Geographer's Perspective PART ONE: GROUNDING GLOBAL FLOWS `Placing' Firms - Peter Dicken Grounding the Debate on the `Global' Corporation Globalization, Transnationalism and the Asia-Pacific - Neil M Coe, Philip F Kelly and Kris Olds The Marginalization of Everywhere? Emerging Geographies of Emerging Markets - Roger Lee The Globalization of Environmental Management - Erica Schoenberger International Investment in the Water, Waste-Water and Solid Waste Industries PART TWO: PLACING GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE The Spatial Life of Things - Meric S Gertler The Real World Practice within the Global Firm Spaces of Corporate Learning - Ash Amin The Might of `Might' - Nigel Thrift How Social Power Is Being Refigured Beyond the Cluster - Local Milieux and Global Connections - Anders Malmberg PART THREE: REFIGURING GLOBAL RULES Making Global Rules - Adam Tickell and Jamie Peck Globalization or Neoliberalization? Globalization: Faustian Bargain, Development Saviour or More of the Same? The Case of the Developing World and the Emerging International Trade Regime - Amy Glasmeier and Michael Conroy `Glocalization' as a State Spatial Strategy - Neil Brenner Urban Entrepreneurialism and the New Politics of Uneven Development in Western Europe Global Production Systems and European Integration - Ray Hudson De-Regionalizing, Re-Regionalizing and Re-Scaling Production Systems in Europe

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