The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of such developments. It presents the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange.
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"...a short, dense, precisely articulated treatise of the urban world as seen through the lens of the metropolitan development experience in the United States....Scott covers considerable ground, synthesizing and applying more than 20 years of his own work to the question of urban regional development at the end of the twentieth century."--Economic Geography
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Allen J. Scott is at University of California, Los Angeles.
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This review is from: Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order (Paperback)
Allen J. Scott's short, scholarly book makes a compelling case for the future growth of regional economies and explains the key role they are likely to play in shaping future global political and economic development. Though written in dense, academic language, the book makes its points clearly and supports them with research, theory and statistics. Scott's guidelines for `regional directorates' reflect many experiments that are already under way around the world, and seeks to capture the best features of each. If his basic idea is correct, then a conscious effort to build regional institutions should speed economic development and reduce world economic stresses. This book is heavy reading, but it is concise and to the point. We [...] recommend it to executives in multinational corporations, entrepreneurs thinking about where to locate, urban planners, civic leaders and government officials - in short, anyone who wants to promote or profit from regional economic development.
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One of the apparent paradoxes of social theory today is that, precisely when it is preoccupied by visions of a shrinking world and a new global order, it simultaneously proclaims the rediscovered significance of geography in the arrangement of human affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dependent transactions costs, forty metropolitan areas, household furniture industry, global mosaic, increasing returns effects, regional competitive advantage, regional motors, transactional networks, new industrial spaces, regional directorates, regional economic systems, fordist mass production, agglomeration economies, collective order Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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One of the apparent paradoxes of social theory today is that, precisely when it is preoccupied by visions of a shrinking world and a new global order, it simultaneously proclaims the rediscovered significance of geography in the arrangement of human affairs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dependent transactions costs, forty metropolitan areas, household furniture industry, global mosaic, increasing returns effects, regional competitive advantage, regional motors, transactional networks, new industrial spaces, regional directorates, regional economic systems, fordist mass production, agglomeration economies, collective order Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Los Angeles, Western Europe, North America, Silicon Valley, European Union, United Nations, Latin America, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, World Bank, Cambridge University Press, Department of Commerce, Kuala Lumpur, Basic Books, Free Press, Novo Hamburgo, Princeton University Press, Buenos Aires, Bureau of the Census, Multimedia Super Corridor, Penguin Books, Poor Regions, Southern California New!
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- Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam on page 108, and page 156
- The Principles of Political Economy (Everyman's Library) by Ricardo on page 16
- Methods of Regional Analysis: An Introduction to Regional Science by Walter Isard on page 76
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