Remaking the Global Economy
Economic-Geographical Perspectives

Edited by:
Jamie A Peck University of Wisconsin, Madison
Henry Wai-Chung Yeung National University of Singapore

Description:
`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 rsum of the latest work in the literature on globalization that will provide a detailed map of the geography of the global economy.


Reviews:

'A well-deserved celebration of economic geography's seminal contributions to globalization studies' - Michael Storper, University of California, Los Angeles
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Table of Contents:

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
Remaking the Global Economy
Cloth : 0-7619-4897-X
List Price: £60.00

Paper : 0-7619-4898-8
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Publisher:
Sage Publications Ltd
Pub Date: 08/2003
Pages: 288
Subject Areas:
-Economic Geography
-International Business & Management (General)

 

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