Peter Dicken Libros

Widely adopted throughout the world, this definitive text comprehensively examines how the global economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken provides a balanced yet critical analysis of globalization processes and debates. The text synthesizes a wealth of data on production, distribution, consumption, and innovation, including detailed case studies of key global industries. Students learn how the global economic map is being shaped and reshaped by dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, states, consumers, labor, and civil society organizations. Useful features include nearly 250 quick-reference figures and tables. The companion website offers PowerPoint slides of the figures and tables, additional case studies and questions, annotated Web links, and more. New to This Edition*Revised throughout to incorporate the latest ideas in the field; gives increased attention to global production networks as a major organizing principle.*Addresses the current global financial crisis.*Chapter on environmental impacts of global production networks.*Case study chapter on the extractive industries.*Fully updated empirical data; additional maps and charts.

Now in a substantially revised and updated fifth edition, this bestselling work is the definitive text on globalization. Peter Dicken provides a comprehensive, balanced yet critical account of globalization processes and their sweeping, highly uneven effects on people's lives. Each timely chapter has been extensively rewritten to reflect current globalization and antiglobalization debates, the latest empirical developments, and new ideas about the shaping and reshaping of production, distribution, and consumption in the world economy. New in the Fifth Edition *An entirely new case study on the agro-foods industries *A substantially expanded discussion of problems of global governance (involving such institutions as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF) and the increasing role of global civil society organizations *All statistical materials have been updated and are presented in nearly 250 specially designed figures and tables

"Standort und Raum" ist ein anerkanntes Standardwerk der Wirtschaftsgeographie im englischsprachigen Raum und wird an vielen Universitäten als Lehrbuch eingesetzt.