The Global Economic System
Author:   I. Wallace
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138419049


Publication Date:   28 June 2017
Format:   Hardback
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The Global Economic System


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The author provides a treatment of world economic geography as a whole. He sets out the historical context of the modern world along with the principal philosophies that have shaped our study of it, and identifies the importance of the biophysical environment as well as cultural and political settings for economic activity.

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Author:   I. Wallace
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138419049


ISBN 10:   1138419044
Publication Date:   28 June 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface 1 The global economy: orientations 2 Society, the economy and the environment 3 Population and resources in an industrialized world-economy 4 The evolution of the modern world-economy 5 States and the global economic system 6 The corporation and the global production system 7 Transnational corporations in a world of sovereign states 8 The industrialized western nations in a turbulent global economy 9 Industrialized state-socialist economies 10 The Third World: varieties of underdevelopment 11 Challenges of Third World development 12 Prospects for the global economy

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`The volume remains a good introductory text which deserves to be used, and is to be praised for attempting a world view rather than a narrow focus.' - Geography


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Iain Wallace is Associate Professor of Geography at Carleton University, Ottawa.

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