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`It just keeps getting better... If there was a word beyond definitive, then that would be the word I would be using here' - Professor Nigel Thrift, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
`Global Shift shatters our easy slogans about globalization, corporations, and nations with bold new insights... Peter Dicken has created a powerful conceptual framework not to be missed by those who hope to grasp the logic of this emerging global order' - William E Halal, School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University
`Dicken identifies both states and transnational corporations as the two key actors in the multiple processes of restructuring and institutionalization that we usually call the global economy. In so doing he has written a political economy of globalization and produced a far more comprehensive account than is typically the case in books about the global economy, most of which tend to confine the analysis to firms and markets' - Saskia Sassen, author of Global Networks, Linked Cities
This Fourth Edition of Global Shift - now a standard work on globalization - has been completely updated and thoroughly revised.
Students and tutors can return time and again to this volume which offers:
- a detailed account of the theories informing the globalization debate
- a comprehensive discussion of the interplay between transnational corporations, states, and changing technologies
- sectoral case studies, including services, each of which illustrates the processes of globalization in different ways
- a much-expanded discussion of inequality, development, environment, and governance
Global Shift provides the reader with the tools and information needed to assess key features of globalization and contains:
- examples drawn from around the world
- use of comparative examples and data
- over 250 especially commissioned maps, graphs, tables and diagrams
- notes for further reading at the end of each chapter
- an extensive bibliography
Preoccupation with the `global' is an emblematic feature of our time. While much of the literature is stronger on hype than on reality, the totally revised and updated Fourth Edition of Global Shift takes a more balanced view of globalization. It identifies both the massive changes that continue to transform the world economy and affect local communities across the globe, and the complex processes involved. It focuses on the interrelated actions of transnational corporations and states within a volatile technological environment. Richly illustrated, this bestselling cross-disciplinary book provides a unique approach to one of the key issues of the new millennium.
Offering the reader all the tools needed to understand and critically assess globalization, Global Shift is the essential resource for all students in the social sciences. It is designed to be used for introductory, undergraduate and postgraduate courses in economic geography, sociology, political science and international relations, management and international business studies.
Table of contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GEO-ECONOMY
A New Geo-Economy
The Changing Global Economic Map
PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT
Technology
The `Great Growling Engine of Change'
`The State Is Dead... Long Live the State'
Doing Things Differently
Variations in State Economic Policies
Transnational Corporations
The Primary `Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy
`Webs of Enterprise'
The Geography of Transnational Production Networks
Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration
/f003Both/f001 Transnational Corporations /f003and/f001 States Matter
PART THREE: GLOBAL SHIFT: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT SECTORS
`Fabric-ating Fashion'
The Textiles and Garments Industries
`Wheels of Change'
The Automobile Industry
`Chips with Everything'
The Semiconductor Industry
`Making the World Go Round'
The Financial Services Industries
`Making the Connections, Selling the Goods'
The Distribution Industries
PART FOUR: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Winners and Losers
An Overview
Making a Living in Developed Countries
Where Will the Jobs Come From?
Making a Living in Developing Countries
Sustaining Growth, Enhancing Equity, Ensuring Survival
Making the World a Better Place
`It just keeps getting better... If there was a word beyond definitive, then that would be the word I would be using here' - Professor Nigel Thrift, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol
`Global Shift shatters our easy slogans about globalization, corporations, and nations with bold new insights... Peter Dicken has created a powerful conceptual framework not to be missed by those who hope to grasp the logic of this emerging global order' - William E Halal, School of Business and Public Management, George Washington University
`Dicken identifies both states and transnational corporations as the two key actors in the multiple processes of restructuring and institutionalization that we usually call the global economy. In so doing he has written a political economy of globalization and produced a far more comprehensive account than is typically the case in books about the global economy, most of which tend to confine the analysis to firms and markets' - Saskia Sassen, author of Global Networks, Linked Cities
This Fourth Edition of Global Shift - now a standard work on globalization - has been completely updated and thoroughly revised.
Students and tutors can return time and again to this volume which offers:
- a detailed account of the theories informing the globalization debate
- a comprehensive discussion of the interplay between transnational corporations, states, and changing technologies
- sectoral case studies, including services, each of which illustrates the processes of globalization in different ways
- a much-expanded discussion of inequality, development, environment, and governance
Global Shift provides the reader with the tools and information needed to assess key features of globalization and contains:
- examples drawn from around the world
- use of comparative examples and data
- over 250 especially commissioned maps, graphs, tables and diagrams
- notes for further reading at the end of each chapter
- an extensive bibliography
Preoccupation with the `global' is an emblematic feature of our time. While much of the literature is stronger on hype than on reality, the totally revised and updated Fourth Edition of Global Shift takes a more balanced view of globalization. It identifies both the massive changes that continue to transform the world economy and affect local communities across the globe, and the complex processes involved. It focuses on the interrelated actions of transnational corporations and states within a volatile technological environment. Richly illustrated, this bestselling cross-disciplinary book provides a unique approach to one of the key issues of the new millennium.
Offering the reader all the tools needed to understand and critically assess globalization, Global Shift is the essential resource for all students in the social sciences. It is designed to be used for introductory, undergraduate and postgraduate courses in economic geography, sociology, political science and international relations, management and international business studies.
Table of contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GEO-ECONOMY
A New Geo-Economy
The Changing Global Economic Map
PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT
Technology
The `Great Growling Engine of Change'
`The State Is Dead... Long Live the State'
Doing Things Differently
Variations in State Economic Policies
Transnational Corporations
The Primary `Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy
`Webs of Enterprise'
The Geography of Transnational Production Networks
Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration
/f003Both/f001 Transnational Corporations /f003and/f001 States Matter
PART THREE: GLOBAL SHIFT: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT SECTORS
`Fabric-ating Fashion'
The Textiles and Garments Industries
`Wheels of Change'
The Automobile Industry
`Chips with Everything'
The Semiconductor Industry
`Making the World Go Round'
The Financial Services Industries
`Making the Connections, Selling the Goods'
The Distribution Industries
PART FOUR: WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Winners and Losers
An Overview
Making a Living in Developed Countries
Where Will the Jobs Come From?
Making a Living in Developing Countries
Sustaining Growth, Enhancing Equity, Ensuring Survival
Making the World a Better Place
No other book concerned with economic globalization was able to match earlier editions in either breadth or empirical richness, but this latest Global Shift 7e is a book whose time has truly come. Coined by Peter Dicken in the mid 1980s, the idea of a 'global shift' has now been propelled into wider circulation as the world grapples with the reality of a maturing Asian and other BRICs economies, and this latest edition is beyond authoritative in terms of its empirical depth and insight into this issue. Andrew Jones, Professor of Economic Geography