The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization: Reinventing space (Routledge Studies in Global Competition)

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy. Globalization has been advocated as a way of shrinking time and space which will lead to a homogenized global market; a suggestion challenged in differing ways and with a variety of approaches by all the contributors to this volume. Leading authorities from a range of disciplines are represented amongst this impressive list of contributors, including Eric Sheppard, Bjørn Asheim, Richard Walker and Peter Swann. The chapters demonstrate persuasively the continuing, and even increasing, role of space in the global economy, and throughout, the book covers viewpoints from the fields of: international political economy economic geography regional and local economics. This impressive volume, which contains a selection of the best in contemporary scholarship, will be of interest to the international arena of academicians, policy makers and professionals in these or related fields.

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy.

Globalization has been advocated as a way of shrinking time and space which will lead to a homogenized global market; a suggestion challenged in differing ways and with a variety of approaches by all the contributors to this volume. Leading authorities from a range of disciplines are represented amongst this impressive list of contributors, including Eric Sheppard, Bjørn Asheim, Richard Walker and Peter Swann.

The chapters demonstrate persuasively the continuing, and even increasing, role of space in the global economy, and throughout, the book covers viewpoints from the fields of:

• international political economy


• economic geography


• regional and local economics.

This impressive volume, which contains a selection of the best in contemporary scholarship, will be of interest to the international arena of academicians, policy makers and professionals in these or related fields.

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy. Globalization has been advocated as a way of shrinking time and space which will lead to a homogenized global market; a suggestion challenged in differing ways and with a variety of approaches by all the contributors to this volume. Leading authorities from a range of disciplines are represented amongst this impressive list of contributors, including Eric Sheppard, Bjorn Asheim, Richard Walker and Peter Swann. The chapters demonstrate persuasively the continuing, and even increasing, role of space in the global economy, and throughout, the book covers viewpoints from the fields of international political economy, economic geography, regional and local economics. This impressive volume, which contains a selection of the best in contemporary scholarship, will be of interest to the international arena of academicians, policy makers and professionals in these or related fields. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Series-Title......Page 3 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Figures......Page 10 Tables......Page 12 Contributors......Page 15 Acknowledgements......Page 17 Introduction......Page 18 Part I Theoretical perspectives......Page 36 1 Lost in space?......Page 37 2 Positionality and globalization in economic geography......Page 57 3 A systemic approach to territorial studies......Page 84 4 Place is what we think with......Page 110 Part II Empirical evidence......Page 128 5 The boom and the bombshell......Page 129 6 The role of regional innovation systems in a globalising economy......Page 156 7 Spatial externalities and local employment dynamics......Page 173 8 Accessibility and regional growth in Europe......Page 199 9 Regional inequalities and EU enlargement......Page 227 Index......Page 252 "The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization examines the effects that recent developments in capitalism have had on shaping the global map as well as analyzing the effect on people and places which occupy different positions in the global economic system. An international team of scholars are bought together to assess, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space and to critically examine the prevailing debates. Collectively the essays in this volume challenge the belief that Globalization shrinks time and space and leads to a homogenized global market. This book explores the relationship between globalization, capitalist development, local competitive distinction, local economies, regional innovation systems, European regional inequalities and growth."