The World Economy

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The World Economy: Resources, Location, Trade, and Development, now in its fourth edition, offers a overview of the field of economic geography and its linkages to related issues of development and underdevelopment, international business, and the global economy. In an age of increasing globalization, an understanding of these issues is central to both liberal arts and profe...(展開全部) The World Economy: Resources, Location, Trade, and Development, now in its fourth edition, offers a overview of the field of economic geography and its linkages to related issues of development and underdevelopment, international business, and the global economy. In an age of increasing globalization, an understanding of these issues is central to both liberal arts and professional educations, for the concerned voter to the engaged business practitioner. This work is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which economic activity is stretched over the space of the earth's surface. Economists too rarely take the spatial dimension seriously, a perspective that implies all economic activity occurs on the head of a pin. Geographers, in contrast, are interested in the manner in which social relations and activities occur unevenly over space, the ways in which local places and the global economy are intertwined, and the difference that location makes to how economic activity is organized. No social process occurs in exactly the same way in different places; thus, where and when economic activity occurs has a profound influence on how it occurs. Space, then, can no longer be relegated to the sidelines. As globalization has made small differences among places increasingly important, space has become more, not less, important. This new edition differs from the previous one in several respects. It has updated empirical data found throughout. Some traditional material has been trimmed to avoid making the volume overly long. In keeping with th

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