THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD ECONOMY
By: KNOX PAUL , AGNEW JOHN McCARTHY LINDA
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TextPublisher: 2016 ROUTLEDGE 2016Edition: 6Description: 479ISBN: 978-1444184709Subject(s): ECONOMIC PATTERNS AND THE SEARCH FOR EXPLANATION The changing world economy .Studying the world economy. Economic organization and spatial change.Spatial divisions of labor .Key sources and suggested reading . . Global patterns and trends . What "economic development" means . International patterns of resources and population . International patterns of industry and finance . Key sources and suggested reading . Geographical dynamics of the world economy . History of the world economy .States and the world economy . "Market access" and the regional motors of the world economy . . RISE OF THE CORE ECONOMIES . .Preindustrial foundations . Beginnings . Emerging imperatives of economic organization . Emergence of the European world-system .. Evolution of the core regions . The Industrial Revolution and spatial change . Machinofacture and the spread of industrialization in Europe . Fordism and North American industrialization . Japanese industrialization: Two economic miracles . Emergence of "organized" capitalism . Principles of economic geography: Summarizing lessons from the industrial era . Globalization of economic activities . Transition to advanced capitalism . Patterns and processes of globalization . . TRANSFORMATION OF CORE AND PERIPHERY . Spatial reorganization of the core economies . The context for urban and regional change .Spatial reorganization of the core economies . Old industrial spaces . New industrial spaces . Regional inequality in core economies . Dynamics of interdependence: Transformation of the periphery . Colonial economies and the transformation of global space . Economic mechanisms of enmeshment and Maintenance in the colonial world economy . Influence of colonial administration on interdependence . Mechanisms of cultural integration . Changing global context of interdependence . Alternative models of development? . Key sources and suggested reading . kgriculture: The primary concern? . ).1 Agriculture in the periphery . Industrialization: The path to progress? . National and global stimuli to industrialization . Limits to industrialization in the periphery . Geography of industrialization in the periphery . Rise and fall of the Soviet model of industrialization . China's rise in the world economy . . Services: Going global? . Defining and theorizing services . National and global stimuli to the growth of services . Services outsourcing: Benefits and drawbacks for all? .Limits to service export growth in the semi-periphery and periphery? . Geography of services .Variety in the internationalization of services . .Key sources and suggested reading . . ADJUSTING TO THE WORLD ECONOMY . . International and supranational institutionalized integration . Economic change and geopolitics . International and supranational institutionalized integration . Spatial outcomes of economic integration . .Reassertion of the local in the age of the global: Regions and localities within the world economy . Regionalism and regional policy . Nationalist separatism 3. Grassroots reactions . Key sources and suggested readingDDC classification: 330.9
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