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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
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Global Shift, Peter Dicken
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- 2007
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- Title
- Global Shift
- Subtitle
- Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy - Fifth Edition
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Dicken
- Publisher
- Guilford Press
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 600
- ISBN10
- 1593854366
- ISBN13
- 9781593854362
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Maps & Travel, Business, Business & Management, Political Science & Politics, Geography & Topography, Politics, Economics, Sociology, International Relations
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- 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