GLOBAL SHIFT MAPPING THE CHANGING CONTOURS OF THE WORLD ECONOMY - 5TH EDITION

'Global Shift just keeps on getting better. There is no other source that gives you the full story on globalization in such a fluent and authoritative way. Not just recommended but essential' - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Warwick

'Impressive in the extent of empirical research, Global Shift successfully captures the historical continuities and basic changes marking the world economy. Peter Dicken's new edition is a vividly written guide to globalizing processes' - James H. Mittelman, Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC

'With this edition of Global Shift, Professor Dicken confirms his mastery as one of the preeminent authorities in the study of globalization. If you wish to explore beyond "flatland", I can't recommend a better source' - Professor William E. Halal, George Washington University

'A comprehensive, balanced, thorough, interdisciplinary review of one of the critical issues of our time. A must for anyone interested in globalization' - Stephen J. Kobrin, University of Pennsylvania

The fifth edition of Global Shift is now completely revised and updated using the latest available sources. Every chapter has been extensively rewritten to take into account not just new empirical developments but to incorporate new ideas on production, distribution, and consumption in the global economy.

The standard work on globalization provides

" the most comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of economic globalization available

" a clear guide to how the global economy is transformed by: transnational corporations; states and interest groups; and technology

" detailed literature review that explains different theories of economic globalization in the larger context of a descriptive account of newly industrialising economies

" sectoral case studies - with a new case study on agro-food industries - which illustrate diverse processes of globalization

" new material on social movements, governance, environment, and alternative economic systems

Extensive use of graphics, lack of jargon, clear definition of terms, makes Global Shift the key resource on economic globalization in the social science literature

PART ONE: THE SHIFTING CONTOURS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Questioning 'Globalization'
What in the world is going on?
Conflicting perspectives on ‘globalization’
Unravelling the complexity of the new geo-economy: economies as networks
Production circuits; production networks
Even in a globalizing world, economic activities are geographically localized 21
Networks of networks
The geo-economy and the environment
Global Shift: The Changing Global Economic Map
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 direct investment
PART TWO: PROCESSES OF GLOBAL SHIFT
Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction'
Technology and economic transformation
Processes of technological change: an evolutionary perspective
The time–space shrinking technologies
Technological changes in products and processes
Geographies of innovation
Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy
The significance of the transnational corporation
Why firms transnationalize
How firms transnationalize
‘Placing’ firms: the myth of the ‘global’ corporation
'Webs of Enterprise': The Geography of Transnational Production Networks
The ‘global–local’ question: an oversimplified view of the TNC’s dilemma
Configuring the firm’s production network: the complex internal geographies of the TNC
TNCs within networks of externalized relationships
Regionalizing transnational production networks
'The State is Dead…Long Live the State'
‘Contested territory’: the state in a globalizing economy
States as containers of distinctive cultures, practices and institutions
States as regulators of trade, foreign investment and industry
States as competitors
States as collaborators: the proliferation of regional integration agreements
'Doing it Their Way': Variations in State Economic Policies
From the general to the specific
A degree of convergence
The older industrialized economies: the United States and Europe
Japan
Newly industrializing economies
Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration: The Uneasy Relationship Between TNCs and States
The ties that bind
Bargaining processes between TNCs and states
PART THREE: THE PICTURE IN DIFFERENT SECTORS
'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries
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
The automobile production circuit
Global shifts in the automobile industry
Changing patterns of consumption
From mass production to lean production: technological change in the automobile industry
The role of the state
Corporate strategies in the automobile industry
Regionalizing production networks in the automobile industry
'Chips With Everything': The Semiconductor Industry
The semiconductor production circuit
Global shifts in the semiconductor industry
Changing patterns of consumption
Production costs and technology
The role of the state
Corporate strategies in the semiconductor industry
Regionalizing production networks in the semiconductor industry: the case of East Asia
'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
'Making the World Go Round': Financial Services
Money counts
The structure of the financial services industries
The dynamics of the market for financial services
Technological innovation and the financial services industries
The role of the state: regulation and deregulation in financial services
Corporate strategies in financial services
Geographical structures of financial services activities
'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': The Logistics and Distribution Industries
‘Whatever happened to distribution in the globalization debate?’
The structure of the logistics and distribution industries
The dynamics of the market
Technological innovation and the logistics and distribution industries
The role of the state: regulation and deregulation in the logistics and distribution industries
Corporate strategies in the logistics and distribution industries
Logistics ‘places’: key geographical nodes on the global logistics map
PART FOUR: WINNING AND LOSING IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Winning and Losing: An Introduction
From processes to impacts
The contours of economic development
Making a living in the global economy
The ‘double exposure’ problem
Good or Bad? Evaluating the Impact of TNCs On Home and Host Economies
A counterfactual dilemma
TNCs and ‘home’ economies: potential impacts of outward investment
TNCs and ‘host’ economies: potential impacts of inward investment
Making a Living In Developed Countries: Where Will the Jobs Come From?
Increasing affluence – but not everybody is a winner
What is happening to jobs and to incomes?
Why is it happening?
What is being done?
Making a Living In Developing Countries: Sustaining Growth, Enhancing Equity, Ensuring Survival
Some winners – but mostly losers
Heterogeneity of the developing world
Sustaining growth and ensuring equity in newly industrializing economies
Ensuring survival and reducing poverty in the least developed countries
Making the World a Better Place
‘The best of all possible worlds’?
Globalization and its ‘discontents’: emergence of a global civil society?
Global governance structures
Two key concerns: labour standards and environmental regulation
To be ‘globalized’ or not to be ‘globalized’: that is the question
What might the future be? What should the future be?