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Spaces of globalization : reasserting the power of the local

A collection of essays by economic geographers exploring the globalization hypothesis by probing the complex relationship between the global and local economy, and also investigating the changing dynamics of firms, labour, capital and communities.
Print Book, English, ©1997
Guilford Press, New York, ©1997
vii, 292 p. ; 23 cm.
9781572301993, 9781572301962, 1572301996, 1572301961
318423806
Introduction: Globalization and its Politics in Question, Kevin R. Cox1. Territories, Flows, and Hierarchies in the Global Economy, Michael Storper2. Between the Global and the Local: The Spatial Limits to Productive Capital, Meric S. Gertler3. Strategic Localization: The Myth of the Postnational Enterprise, Andrew Mair4. The Informational Content of Financial Products and the Spatial Structure of the Global Finance Industry, Gordon L. Clark and Kevin O'Connor5. Globalization and the Politics of Distribution: A Critical Assessment, Kevin R. Cox6. Neither Global nor Local: Glocalization and the Politics of Scale, Erik Swyngedouw7. Labor as an Agent of Globalization and as a Global Agent, Andrew Herod8. Social Democracy and External Constraints, Ton Notermans9. Representation Unbound: Globalization and Democracy, Murray Low
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