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An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place by Danny Mackinnon, Andrew Cumbers

An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place Danny Mackinnon, Andrew Cumbers ebook
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0131293168, 9780131293168
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Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic, 72. Introduction: Problematizing Production, 91 7, Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor, 111 18, Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class? Furthermore, states can manipulate their economic performance as policies influence international competitiveness ensuing a globalizing economy depicted by an 'uneven process rather than an end-state'[12]. Social and economic indicators of these needs include literacy rates, infant mortality rates, or life expectancy. The period of economic globalization after the Second World War has been characterized by an increase in transnational trade, foreign direct investment (FDI)[1] and a growth in transnational corporations' (TNCs)[2] activity[3]. 9) An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place – Danny Mackinnon and Andrew Cumbers. Paying closer attention to the geographical distribution of the causes and effects of, and also the harms and benefits resulting from, contemporary processes of economic globalization, reveals those processes to be differentiated along distinct and tangible geographical or territorial scales, themselves embedded in the capitalist world economy shaped by centuries of uneven development. A second commonly cited factor related to NGO distribution is the health and development needs of a population. Over the last thirty years one of the more interesting developments in the geography of the international political economy has been the appearance of “new places” on the map.1 These places are offshore financial centres (OFCs); places which host For Harvey financial globalization (re)produces uneven development; new geographies – spatial differences and spatialities of power and social relations – are produced to avoid the fixity of existing geographies. 4, Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography, 59. Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization, Uneven Development and Place.