Global Shift
Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy
6th Edition
Published on 19. August 2011
Book
Mixed media product
632 pages
978-0-85702-800-6 (ISBN)
Description
"A magnificent achievement. Since the publication of the first edition in 1986, Peter Dicken has constructed in successive editions a phenomenal record of the changing geography of capital accumulation on a world scale... An essential companion for anyone concerned to understand the rapid geographical shifts occurring in the world's economic power relations in these stressful and troubled times."
- David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
"A masterful new edition of a masterful text. Once again, Peter Dicken is at the cutting edge of the analysis of economic globalization and global trends. Global Shift is the authoritative text on these issues."
- David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
"Covers a vast empirical range but is always closely attentive to the underlying processes, impacts, and meanings of globalization. Dicken's approach beautifully integrates the economic and the political with problems of equity and ethics - a rare accomplishment. Ideal for undergraduate classes across the social sciences."
- Erica Schoenberger, Department of Geography, Johns Hopkins University
This sixth edition of Global Shift has been completely revised and updated using the latest available sources. Each chapter has been extensively rewritten and new chapters introduced to take account of recent empirical developments, new ideas on production, distribution, and consumption in the global economy and the implications of the global financial crisis.
This now standard work on economic globalization provides:
The most comprehensive and up-to-date explanation of economic globalization available, examining the role of transnational corporations, states, labour, consumers, and organizations in civil society and the power relations between them
A clear guide to how the global economy is being transformed through the operation of global production networks involving transnational corporations, states and interest groups and technology
Detailed discussion of different theories of economic globalization
A new chapter on the environmental impacts of globalizing processes
Extended discussion of problems and institutions of global governance in the context of the global economic crisis and of the role of corporate social responsibility
Boadened sectoral case studies including a new case study on resource-extractive industries, and an extended chapter on financial and advanced business services.
The extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon and clear definition of terms, makes Global Shift the key resource on economic globalization in the social science literature.
- David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
"A masterful new edition of a masterful text. Once again, Peter Dicken is at the cutting edge of the analysis of economic globalization and global trends. Global Shift is the authoritative text on these issues."
- David Held, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
"Covers a vast empirical range but is always closely attentive to the underlying processes, impacts, and meanings of globalization. Dicken's approach beautifully integrates the economic and the political with problems of equity and ethics - a rare accomplishment. Ideal for undergraduate classes across the social sciences."
- Erica Schoenberger, Department of Geography, Johns Hopkins University
This sixth edition of Global Shift has been completely revised and updated using the latest available sources. Each chapter has been extensively rewritten and new chapters introduced to take account of recent empirical developments, new ideas on production, distribution, and consumption in the global economy and the implications of the global financial crisis.
This now standard work on economic globalization provides:
The most comprehensive and up-to-date explanation of economic globalization available, examining the role of transnational corporations, states, labour, consumers, and organizations in civil society and the power relations between them
A clear guide to how the global economy is being transformed through the operation of global production networks involving transnational corporations, states and interest groups and technology
Detailed discussion of different theories of economic globalization
A new chapter on the environmental impacts of globalizing processes
Extended discussion of problems and institutions of global governance in the context of the global economic crisis and of the role of corporate social responsibility
Boadened sectoral case studies including a new case study on resource-extractive industries, and an extended chapter on financial and advanced business services.
The extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon and clear definition of terms, makes Global Shift the key resource on economic globalization in the social science literature.
Reviews / Votes
A magnificent achievement. Since the publication of the first edition of Global Shift in 1986, Peter Dicken has constructed in successive editions a phenomenal record of the changing geography of capital accumulation on a world scale. This wholly new sixth edition of 2010, is an essential companion for anyone concerned to understand the rapid geographical shifts occurring in the world's economic power relations in these stressful and troubled timesDavid Harvey
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
A masterful new edition of a masterful text. Once again, Peter Dicken is at the cutting edge of the analysis of economic globalization and global trends. Global Shift is the authoritative text on these issues
David Held
Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
Global Shift, sixth edition, continues to deconstruct globalization to show that distance (economic geography) still matters. Dicken uses insights from international business research to demonstrate that world business activity is more regional than global. Multinational enterprises are at the hub of global production networks and service delivery; they interact with governments and generally act as agents of economic development. In short economic geography and international business are closely aligned in their approach to globalization
Alan Rugman
Henley Business School, University of Reading
I am impressed by how this book continues to evolve. It has opened out to new sectors and new themes, including extractive industries and the environmental implications of a globalized economy. Global Shift is a tremendous resource; it covers a vast empirical range but is always closely attentive to the underlying processes, impacts, and meanings of globalization. Dicken's approach beautifully integrates the economic and the political with problems of equity and ethics - a rare accomplishment. Ideal for undergraduate classes across the social sciences
Erica Schoenberger
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
The premier text for middle and upper-level courses in economic geography and globalization. The sixth edition provides detailed treatment of the current global financial crisis and a thorough assessment of globalization's winners and losers. It contains entirely new chapters on mineral extractive industries and on the environmental implications of global production networks. Global Shift continues to be a 'must read' for all students of the global economy
Robin Leichenko
Department of Geography, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey I am among the privileged to read and use Dicken's Global Shift as a reference text for my writings and as an elective text in my Urban Geography courses since its 1986 first edition...Global Shift's sixth edition is a vital text comprehensively reviewing how global economy functions and how enjoyable or unpleasant are its impacts on people and places. In the sixth edition Dicken offers an updated critical analysis of globalization followed by the continuing theoretical, in some respect political, on the debate on its nature, impact and durability. -- Baruch A. Kipnis
More details
Edition
6th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
1177 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85702-800-6 (9780857028006)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Peter Dicken is recognized as a leading world authority on economic globalization. He is Emeritus Professor of Geography in the School of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK, and has held visiting academic appointments at universities and research institutes throughout the world. He is an Academician of the Social Sciences, a recipient of the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), the Centenary Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and an Honorary Doctorate of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Content
Introduction: Questioning Globalization
What in the World Is Going on?
Conflicting Perspectives on 'Globalization'
Grounding 'Globalization': Geography Really Does Matter
PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy
What's New? The Imprint of Past Geographies
Roller-Coasters and Interconnections
The Changing Contours of the Global Economic Map: Global Shifts in Production, Trade and FDI
The Dynamic Global Economic Map
PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT
Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy
An Analytical Point of Entry
Institutional Macrostructures of the Global Economy
Global Production Networks
Even in a Globalizing World, Economic Activities Are Geographically Localized
Networks of Networks
Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'
Technology and Economic Transformation
Processes of Technological Change: An Evolutionary Perspective
Time-Space Shrinking Technologies
Technological Innovations in Products and Processes
Geographies of Innovation
Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy
Why Firms Transnationalize
How Firms Transnationalize
TNCs as 'Networks within Networks'
Configuring the TNCs' Internal Networks
TNCs within Networks of Externalized Relationships
Perpetual Change: Reshaping TNCs' Internal and External Networks
The Myth of the 'Global' Corporation
The State Really Does Matter
'The State Is Dead' - Oh No It Isn't!
States as Containers
States as Regulators
States as Competitors
States as Collaborators
The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration
The Ties That Bind
Bargaining Processes between TNCs and States
PART THREE: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SECTORS
'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries
Beginning at the Beginning
Production Circuits in the Extractive Industries
Global Shifts in the Extractive Industries
Volatile Demand
Technologies of Exploring, Extracting, Refining, Distributing
The Centrality of State Involvement in the Extractive Industries
Corporate Strategies in the Extractive Industries
Resources, Reserves and Futures
'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries
Transformation of the Food Economy: The 'Local' Becomes 'Global'
Agro-Food Production Circuits
Global Shifts in the Agro-Food Industries
Consumer Choices - and Consumer Resistances
Transforming Technologies in Agro-Food Production
The Role of the State
Corporate Strategies in the Agro-Food Industries
'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries
Changing Rules
The Clothing Production Circuit
Global Shifts in the Clothing Industries
Changing Patterns of Consumption
Production Costs and Technology
The Role of the State and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Corporate Strategies in the Clothing Industries
Regionalizing Production Networks in the Clothing Industries
'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry
All Change?
The Automobile Production Circuit
Global Shifts in Automobile Production and Trade
Changing Patterns of Consumption
Technological Change in the Automobile Industry
The Role of the State
Corporate Strategies in the Automobile Industry
Regionalizing Production Networks in the Automobile Industry
'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business Services - Especially Finance
The Centrality of Advanced Business Services
The Structure of Advanced Business Services
Dynamics of the Markets for Advanced Business Services
Technological Innovation and Advanced Business Services
The Role of the State: Regulation, De-Regulation, Re-Regulation
Corporate Strategies in Advanced Business Services
Geographies of Advanced Business Services
'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics and Distribution Services
Taking Distribution for Granted
The Structure of Logistics and Distribution Services
The Dynamics of the Market for Logistics Services
Technological Innovation and Logistics and Distribution Services
The Role of the State: Regulation and Deregulation of Logistics and Distribution Services
Corporate Strategies in Logistics and Distribution Services
Logistics 'Places': Key Geographical Nodes on the Global Logistics Map
PART FOUR: WINNING AND LOSING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks
Placing Places in GPNs
Creating, Enhancing and Capturing Value in GPNs
Upgrading (or Downgrading) of Local Economies within GPNs
'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks
Production-Distribution-Consumption as a System of Materials Flows and Balances
Disturbing the Delicate Balance of Life on Earth: Damaging the Earth's Atmosphere
Fouling the Nest: Creating and Disposing of Waste
Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters
Location Matters
Incomes and Poverty
Where Will the Jobs Come From?
Populations on the Move
Making the World a Better Place
Global Shifts: Pasts and Futures
'The Best of All Possible Worlds'?
TNCs and Corporate Social Responsibility
States and Issues of Global Governance
A Better World
What in the World Is Going on?
Conflicting Perspectives on 'Globalization'
Grounding 'Globalization': Geography Really Does Matter
PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Global Shift: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy
What's New? The Imprint of Past Geographies
Roller-Coasters and Interconnections
The Changing Contours of the Global Economic Map: Global Shifts in Production, Trade and FDI
The Dynamic Global Economic Map
PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT
Tangled Webs: Unravelling Complexity in the Global Economy
An Analytical Point of Entry
Institutional Macrostructures of the Global Economy
Global Production Networks
Even in a Globalizing World, Economic Activities Are Geographically Localized
Networks of Networks
Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'
Technology and Economic Transformation
Processes of Technological Change: An Evolutionary Perspective
Time-Space Shrinking Technologies
Technological Innovations in Products and Processes
Geographies of Innovation
Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy
Why Firms Transnationalize
How Firms Transnationalize
TNCs as 'Networks within Networks'
Configuring the TNCs' Internal Networks
TNCs within Networks of Externalized Relationships
Perpetual Change: Reshaping TNCs' Internal and External Networks
The Myth of the 'Global' Corporation
The State Really Does Matter
'The State Is Dead' - Oh No It Isn't!
States as Containers
States as Regulators
States as Competitors
States as Collaborators
The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States: Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration
The Ties That Bind
Bargaining Processes between TNCs and States
PART THREE: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT ECONOMIC SECTORS
'Making Holes in the Ground': The Extractive Industries
Beginning at the Beginning
Production Circuits in the Extractive Industries
Global Shifts in the Extractive Industries
Volatile Demand
Technologies of Exploring, Extracting, Refining, Distributing
The Centrality of State Involvement in the Extractive Industries
Corporate Strategies in the Extractive Industries
Resources, Reserves and Futures
'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries
Transformation of the Food Economy: The 'Local' Becomes 'Global'
Agro-Food Production Circuits
Global Shifts in the Agro-Food Industries
Consumer Choices - and Consumer Resistances
Transforming Technologies in Agro-Food Production
The Role of the State
Corporate Strategies in the Agro-Food Industries
'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries
Changing Rules
The Clothing Production Circuit
Global Shifts in the Clothing Industries
Changing Patterns of Consumption
Production Costs and Technology
The Role of the State and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
Corporate Strategies in the Clothing Industries
Regionalizing Production Networks in the Clothing Industries
'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry
All Change?
The Automobile Production Circuit
Global Shifts in Automobile Production and Trade
Changing Patterns of Consumption
Technological Change in the Automobile Industry
The Role of the State
Corporate Strategies in the Automobile Industry
Regionalizing Production Networks in the Automobile Industry
'Making the World Go Round': Advanced Business Services - Especially Finance
The Centrality of Advanced Business Services
The Structure of Advanced Business Services
Dynamics of the Markets for Advanced Business Services
Technological Innovation and Advanced Business Services
The Role of the State: Regulation, De-Regulation, Re-Regulation
Corporate Strategies in Advanced Business Services
Geographies of Advanced Business Services
'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': Logistics and Distribution Services
Taking Distribution for Granted
The Structure of Logistics and Distribution Services
The Dynamics of the Market for Logistics Services
Technological Innovation and Logistics and Distribution Services
The Role of the State: Regulation and Deregulation of Logistics and Distribution Services
Corporate Strategies in Logistics and Distribution Services
Logistics 'Places': Key Geographical Nodes on the Global Logistics Map
PART FOUR: WINNING AND LOSING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
'Capturing Value' within Global Production Networks
Placing Places in GPNs
Creating, Enhancing and Capturing Value in GPNs
Upgrading (or Downgrading) of Local Economies within GPNs
'Destroying Value': Environmental Impacts of Global Production Networks
Production-Distribution-Consumption as a System of Materials Flows and Balances
Disturbing the Delicate Balance of Life on Earth: Damaging the Earth's Atmosphere
Fouling the Nest: Creating and Disposing of Waste
Winning and Losing: Where You Live Really Matters
Location Matters
Incomes and Poverty
Where Will the Jobs Come From?
Populations on the Move
Making the World a Better Place
Global Shifts: Pasts and Futures
'The Best of All Possible Worlds'?
TNCs and Corporate Social Responsibility
States and Issues of Global Governance
A Better World