Remaking the global economy : economic-geographical perspectives / edited by Jamie Peck and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peck, Jamie.

Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic geography.

Globalization.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2003.

Contents:

1 Making global connections: a geographer's perspective / Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Jamie Peck

Part 1 Grounding Global Flows

2 'Placing' firms: grounding the debate on the 'global' corporation / Peter Dicken

3 Globalization, transnationalism, and the Asia-Pacific / Neil M. Coe, Philip F. Kelly, Kris Olds

4 The marginalization of everywhere? Emerging geographies of emerging markets / Roger Lee

5 The globalization of environmental management: international investment in the water, waste-water and solid waste industries / Erica Schoenberger

Part 2 Placing Global Knowledge

6 The spatial life of things: the real world of practice within the global firm / Meric S. Gertler

7 Spaces of corporate learning / Ash Amin

8 The might of 'might': how social power is being refigured / Nigel Thrift

9 Beyond the cluster

local milieus and global connections / Anders Malmberg

Part 3 Refiguring Global Rules

10 Making global rules: globalization or neoliberalization? / Adam Tickell, Jamie Peck

11 Globalization: Faustian bargain, development saviour or more of the same? The case of the developing world and the emerging international trade regime / Amy Glasmeier, Michael Conroy

12 'Glocalization' as a state spatial strategy: urban entrepreneurialism and the new politics of uneven development in western Europe / Neil Brenner

13 Global production systems and European integration: de-regionalizing, re-regionalizing and re-scaling production systems in Europe / Ray Hudson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

076194897X

0761948988

OCLC:

51779919