Remaking the Global Economy : Economic-Geographical Perspectives

by Jamie Peck

• ISBN13: 9780761948988
• ISBN10: 0761948988
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-21
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

'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.

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