Global Shift Sixth Edition

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 1609180119
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Shift, Sixth Edition written by Peter Dicken and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462519555
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Shift, Seventh Edition written by Peter Dicken and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, nations, and other key players, and their role in shaping the uneven contours of development. Mapping the changing centers of gravity of the global economy, Dicken presents in-depth case studies of six major industries. Now in full color throughout, the text features 228 figures. Companion websites for students and instructors offer extensive supplemental resources, including author videos, applied case studies with questions, lecture notes with PowerPoint slides, discipline-specific suggested further reading for each chapter, and interactive flashcards. ÿ ÿ New to This Edition: *Every chapter thoroughly revised and updated. *All 228 figures (now in color) are new or redesigned. *Addresses the ongoing fallout from the recent global financial crisis. *Discussions of timely topics: tax avoidance and corporate social responsibility; global problems of unemployment, poverty, and inequality; environmental degradation; the Eurozone crisis; and more. *Enhanced online resources for instructors and students.

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781593854362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Shift, Fifth Edition written by Peter Dicken and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2007-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 chapter reflects 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. Of special utility are detailed case studies of key global industries and more than 250 specially designed figures and tables. To facilitate use in the classroom, the figures and tables are also available online as PowerPoint slides.

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Shift written by Peter Dicken and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The completely revised and updated Fourth Edition includes: - examples drawn from across the world - customized maps, graphs, tables and diagrams - notes for further reading at the end of each chapter - an extensive bibliography

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Shift written by Peter Dicken and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1998-03-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition identifies the massive changes that continue to transform the world economy and affect local communities across the globe, focusing on the interrelated actions of transnational companies and states in a volatile technological environment.

Author : Peter Dicken
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572303034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Shift, Third Edition written by Peter Dicken and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wholly rewritten third edition of this widely acclaimed text continues to offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date description of how the global economy works today. Moving beyond globalization hype, Dicken carefully introduces students to the economic, political, and technological processes that are creating global shifts in economic activity and affecting local communities in highly uneven ways. Like the previous editions, the book focuses on the interrelated actions of transnational corporations (imbedded within intricate business networks) and states (which act as containers, regulators, and competitors) within a volatile technological environment. Several entirely new chapters are included, and all chapters are revised to reflect the latest available data and theoretical debates. Of special utility are detailed case studies of key global industries and more than 200 fully updated figures and tables.

Author : Al Gore
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 067964430X
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future written by Al Gore and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world: • Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels “Earth Inc.”—an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past. • The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of “the Global Mind,” which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases. • The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years—from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets. • A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet’s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species. • Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science—and are putting control of evolution in human hands. • There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earth’s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide. From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths—no matter how “inconvenient” they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right. Praise for The Future “Magisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.”—Bloomberg “In The Future . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.”—The New York Times Book Review “Historically grounded . . . Gore’s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.”—Publishers Weekly “Provocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.”—The Guardian

Author : Frederick P.. Stutz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781292021195
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Economy written by Frederick P.. Stutz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : This comprehensive text explores contemporary geographic topics and perspectives relating to the world economy. The authors provide a strong theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the global economy in an era of shifting borders, restructuring economies, and regional realignments. Economic theory is combined with geography to address critical problems of growth, distribution, and development, along with their impact on international business. Recent geopolitical changes are vividly portrayed in a series of superb full-color maps and striking photographs. The Sixth Edition includes updated tables and data, color maps, 2009 economic statistics, a detailed analysis of the global shift in world trade and development, eleven new Case Studies, and a new Premium Website with videos, weblinks, RSS feeds, and quizzes.

Author : David Houle
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402273924
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shift Age written by David Houle and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the author, the Shift Age is humanity's new era -- a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and opportunity.

Author : John A. Mathews
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086424
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Green Shift written by John A. Mathews and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on clean energy, clean water and clean food – all produced in a safe, clean and sustainable way, in abundance, at low (and diminishing) cost and without making further inroads into nature. This twenty-first century world is being driven by newly emerging industrial giants like China and India – just as the twentieth-century infrastructure of oil, automobiles and highways was created by the United States. It is China and India that are feeling the worst effects of industrializing along conventional ‘business as usual’ lines, and which have the greatest incentive to drive their own green shift. But the old world order based on a linear economy and fossil fuels is resisting bitterly, and will not give up without a fight. John A. Mathews explains how these trends and counter-trends are creating a new world order where an industrial system based on the Ceres (Circular Economy and Renewable Energy System) is seeking to take over from the world of fossil fuels, and provide scope for Gaia to become her wild self again. The outcome of this struggle is far from determined. It is the central issue to be resolved in the twenty-first century.