GLOBAL SHIFT

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, labor, and civil society organizations. Useful features include nearly 250 quick-reference figures and tables. The companion website offers PowerPoint slides of the figures and tables, additional case studies and questions, annotated Web links, and more.

CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations
Preface to the Sixth Edition
About the Companion Website

1 Introduction: Questioning ‘Globalization’
2 Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy
3 Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy
4 Technological Change: ‘Gales of Creative Destruction
5 Transnational Corporations: The Primary ‘Movers and Shapers’ of the Global Economy
7 The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration
8 ‘Making Holes in the Ground’: The Extractive Industries
9 ‘We Are What We Eat’: The Agro-Food Industries

Páginas : 607
Peso : 21mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2011
ISBN : 978-1609180065
Editorial : The Guilford
Autor: Peter Dicken

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