This article reviews where we have come from and where we are going in research on
regional growth and development. Our object of study is the region, an imprecise term that …

Accelerating processes of economic globalization have fundamentally reshaped the
organization of the global economy towards much greater integration and functional …

A vast and continually expanding literature on economic globalization continues to generate
a miasma of conflicting viewpoints and alternative discourses. This article argues that any …

This article analyzes the distribution of financial value from innovation in the global supply
chains of iPods and notebook computers. We find that Apple has captured a great deal of …

Few observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's
remarkable rate of growth. But what does the future hold? This meticulously researched …

The 1990s brought surprising industrial development in emerging economies around the
globe: firms in countries not previously known for their high-technology industries moved to …

Standard economic analysis predicts that increased US trade with unskilled labor–abundant
countries should reduce the relative wages of US unskilled labor, but empirical studies in the …

PREFACE xii the turn of the last century and is unlikely to slow down in the near future. This
book is about the more than half of humanity that works–or is seeking to work–for a wage. It …

Geographical economics starts from the observation that economic activity is clearly not
randomly distributed across space. This revised and updated introduction to geographical …

The global value chains consist of the global trade in parts and components often involved
in manufacturing and agriculture. The question asked is whether global production systems …