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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Preface to the Fifth Edition | |
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| The Shifting Contours of the Global Economy | |
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| Questioning 'Globalization' | |
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| What in the world is going on? | |
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| Conflicting perspectives on 'globalization' | |
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| Unravelling the complexity of the new geo-economy: economies as networks | |
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| Production circuits; production networks | |
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| Even in a globalizing world, economic activities are geographically localized | |
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| Networks of networks | |
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| The geo-economy and the environment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Global Shift: The Changing Global Economic Map | |
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| What's new?: The imprint of past geographies | |
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| Roller-coasters and interconnections | |
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| The changing contours of the global economic map: global shifts in production, trade and direct investment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Processes of Global Shift | |
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| Technological Change: 'Gales of Creative Destruction' | |
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| Technology and economic transformation | |
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| Processes of technological change: an evolutionary perspective | |
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| The time-space shrinking technologies | |
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| Technological changes in products and processes | |
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| Geographies of innovation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Transnational Corporations: The Primary 'Movers and Shapers' of the Global Economy | |
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| The significance of the transnational corporation | |
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| Why firms transnationalize | |
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| How firms transnationalize | |
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| 'Placing' firms: the myth of the 'global' corporation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'Webs of Enterprise': The Geography of Transnational Production Networks | |
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| The 'global-local' question: an oversimplified view of the TNC's dilemma | |
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| Configuring the firm's production network: the complex internal geographies of the TNC | |
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| TNCs within networks of externalized relationships | |
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| Regionalizing transnational production networks | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'The State Is Dead...Long Live the State' | |
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| 'Contested territory': the state in a globalizing economy | |
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| States as containers of distinctive cultures, practices and institutions | |
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| States as regulators of trade, foreign investment and industry | |
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| States as competitors | |
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| States as collaborators: the proliferation of regional integration agreements | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'Doing It Their Way': Variations in State Economic Policies | |
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| From the general to the specific | |
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| A degree of convergence | |
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| The older industrialized economies: the United States and Europe | |
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| Japan | |
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| Newly industrializing economies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Dynamics of Conflict and Collaboration: The Uneasy Relationship between TNCs and States | |
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| The ties that bind | |
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| Bargaining processes between TNCs and states | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Picture in Different Sectors | |
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| 'Fabric-ating Fashion': The Clothing Industries | |
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| The clothing production circuit | |
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| Global shifts in the clothing industries | |
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| Changing patterns of consumption | |
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| Production costs and technology | |
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| The role of the state and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement | |
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| Corporate strategies in the clothing industries | |
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| Regionalizing production networks in the clothing industries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'Wheels of Change': The Automobile Industry | |
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| The automobile production circuit | |
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| Global shifts in the automobile industry | |
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| Changing patterns of consumption | |
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| From mass production to lean production: technological change in the automobile industry | |
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| The role of the state | |
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| Corporate strategies in the automobile industry | |
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| Regionalizing production networks in the automobile industry | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'Chips with Everything': The Semiconductor Industry | |
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| The semiconductor production circuit | |
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| Global shifts in the semiconductor industry | |
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| Changing patterns of consumption | |
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| Production costs and technology | |
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| The role of the state | |
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| Corporate strategies in the semiconductor industry | |
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| Regionalizing production networks in the semiconductor industry: the case of East Asia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'We Are What We Eat': The Agro-Food Industries | |
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| Transformation of the food economy: the 'local' becomes 'global' | |
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| Agro-food production circuits | |
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| Global shifts in the agro-food industries | |
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| Consumer choices - and consumer resistances | |
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| Transforming technologies in agro-food production | |
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| The role of the state | |
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| Corporate strategies in the agro-food industries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'Making the World Go Round': Financial Services | |
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| Money counts | |
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| The structure of the financial services industries | |
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| The dynamics of the market for financial services | |
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| Technological innovation and the financial services industries | |
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| The role of the state: regulation and deregulation in financial services | |
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| Corporate strategies in financial services | |
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| Geographical structures of financial services activities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| 'Making the Connections, Moving the Goods': The Logistics and Distribution Industries | |
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| 'Whatever happened to distribution in the globalization debate?' | |
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| The structure of the logistics and distribution industries | |
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| The dynamics of the market | |
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| Technological innovation and the logistics and distribution industries | |
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| The role of the state: regulation and deregulation in the logistics and distribution industries | |
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| Corporate strategies in the logistics and distribution industries | |
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| Logistics 'places': key geographical nodes on the global logistics map | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Winning and Losing in the Global Economy | |
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| Winning and Losing: An Introduction | |
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| From processes to impacts | |
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| The contours of economic development | |
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| Making a living in the global economy | |
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| The 'double exposure' problem | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Good or Bad?: Evaluating the Impact of TNCs on Home and Host Economies | |
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| A counterfactual dilemma | |
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| TNCs and 'home' economies: potential impacts of outward investment | |
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| TNCs and 'host' economies: potential impacts of inward investment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Making a Living in Developed Countries: Where Will the Jobs Come From? | |
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| Increasing affluence - but not everybody is a winner | |
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| What is happening to jobs and to incomes? | |
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| Why is it happening? | |
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| What is being done? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Making a Living in Developing Countries: Sustaining Growth, Enhancing Equity, Ensuring Survival | |
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| Some winners - but mostly losers | |
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| Heterogeneity of the developing world | |
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| Sustaining growth and ensuring equity in newly industrializing economies | |
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| Ensuring survival and reducing poverty in the least developed countries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Making the World a Better Place | |
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| 'The best of all possible worlds'? | |
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| Globalization and its 'discontents': emergence of a global civil society? | |
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| Global governance structures | |
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| Two key concerns: labour standards and environmental regulation | |
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| To be 'globalized' or not to be 'globalized': that is the question | |
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| What might the future be? What should the future be? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |