Regions and the World Economy The Coming

The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of such developments. It presents the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange.

List of Illustrations

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List of Tables

xi

1 Regions and the World Economy

1

(8)

2 The National Economy and the Sovereign State

9

(16)

Geographic Frameworks of Economic and Political Order

9

(2)

The Sovereign Territorial State

11

(2)

Economy, State, Territory

13

(7)

Beyond Fordism; Toward Globalism

20

(5)

3 The Coming Break-up of National Economies?

25

(22)

A World of National Economies

25

(2)

From Internationalization to Globalization: The Post-War Period

27

(15)

The Geography of Globalization

42

(5)

4 The Global Mosaic of Regional Economies

47

(28)

Contours of the Global Mosaic

48

(15)

Forms of Regional Development

63

(5)

The New World Map of Regions

68

(3)

The Social Order of the Mosaic

71

(4)

5 The Regional Foundations of Economic Performance

75

(26)

Industrial Organization and Economic Space

76

(9)

The General Theory of Location

85

(6)

The Specific Theory of Locational Agglomeration

91

(7)

A Historical Geographic Perspective

98

(3)

6 Collective Order and Regional Development: Social and Cultural Regulation of Local Economic Systems

101

(20)

The Regulatory Imperative

101

(3)

A Backward Glance

104

(3)

Socio-Cultural Regulation and Regional Strategic Choice

107

(9)

Strategies of Regional Development

116

(5)

7 Prospects for Poor Regions

121

(16)

The End of the Third World?

121

(3)

Industrialization, Urbanization, and Development

124

(9)

Region-Based Approaches to Economic Development

133

(4)

8 A World of Regions

137

(22)

New Political Spaces

137

(5)

Regional Directorates of the Twenty-First Century?

142

(10)

Community, Local Democracy, and Citizenship

152

(7)

9 The Changing Geopolitics of Production, Competition, and Regional Interdependence

159

(6)

Index

165

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Regions and the World Economy The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

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