Regions and the World Economy The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

by Scott, Allen J.

• ISBN13: 9780198294054
• ISBN10: 0198294050
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of such developments. It presents the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(2)
List of Tables	xi
1 Regions and the World Economy	1	(8)
2 The National Economy and the Sovereign State	9	(16)
Geographic Frameworks of Economic and Political Order	9	(2)
The Sovereign Territorial State	11	(2)
Economy, State, Territory	13	(7)
Beyond Fordism; Toward Globalism	20	(5)
3 The Coming Break-up of National Economies?	25	(22)
A World of National Economies	25	(2)
From Internationalization to Globalization: The Post-War Period	27	(15)
The Geography of Globalization	42	(5)
4 The Global Mosaic of Regional Economies	47	(28)
Contours of the Global Mosaic	48	(15)
Forms of Regional Development	63	(5)
The New World Map of Regions	68	(3)
The Social Order of the Mosaic	71	(4)
5 The Regional Foundations of Economic Performance	75	(26)
Industrial Organization and Economic Space	76	(9)
The General Theory of Location	85	(6)
The Specific Theory of Locational Agglomeration	91	(7)
A Historical Geographic Perspective	98	(3)
6 Collective Order and Regional Development: Social and Cultural Regulation of Local Economic Systems	101	(20)
The Regulatory Imperative	101	(3)
A Backward Glance	104	(3)
Socio-Cultural Regulation and Regional Strategic Choice	107	(9)
Strategies of Regional Development	116	(5)
7 Prospects for Poor Regions	121	(16)
The End of the Third World?	121	(3)
Industrialization, Urbanization, and Development	124	(9)
Region-Based Approaches to Economic Development	133	(4)
8 A World of Regions	137	(22)
New Political Spaces	137	(5)
Regional Directorates of the Twenty-First Century?	142	(10)
Community, Local Democracy, and Citizenship	152	(7)
9 The Changing Geopolitics of Production, Competition, and Regional Interdependence	159	(6)
Index	165