From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Tue Feb 28 2006 - 13:40:55 EST
A colleague of mine at my University has published a new book that may be of interest to somebody on this list. Vertova Giovanna (2006) (ed ) The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization Routledge, Milton Park http://search.tandf.co.uk/bookscatalogue.asp?URL=https://ecommerce.tandf.co.uk/catalogue/DirectLink.asp?ResourceCentre=SEARCH&ContinentSelected=0&CountrySelected=0&USSelected=0&ChangeCountry=0&search_text=041535398X&SearchGroup=ISBN&results_order=ByTitle&queryte The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization Giovanna Vertova Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 041535398X Pub Date: 20 APR 2006 Type: Hardback Book Price: £80.00 Extent: 256 pages (Dimensions 234X156 mm) The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy. Globalization has been advocated as a way of shrinking time and space which will lead to a homogenized global market; a suggestion challenged in differing ways and with a variety of approaches by all the contributors to this volume. Leading authorities from a range of disciplines are represented amongst this impressive list of contributors, including Eric Sheppard, Bjørn Asheim, Richard Walker and Peter Swann. The chapters demonstrate persuasively the continuing, and even increasing, role of space in the global economy, and throughout, the book covers viewpoints from the fields of: * international political economy * economic geography * regional and local economics. This impressive volume, which contains a selection of the best in contemporary scholarship, will be of interest to the international arena of academicians, policy makers and professionals in these or related fields. Contents: CONTENTS Introduction: "reinventing space", Giovanna Vertova Part I. Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1. Lost in space? The geographical and political dimension of uneven capitalist development, Riccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova Chapter 2. Positionality and globalization in economic geography, Eric Sheppard Chapter 3. A systemic approach to territorial studies: deconstructing territorial competitiveness, Sergio Conti and Paolo Giaccaria Chapter 4. Place is what we think with or spatial history, intellectual capital and competitive distinction, Peter Swann Part II. Empirical evidence Chapter 5. The boom and the bombshell: the new economy bubble and the San Francisco Bay area, Richard Walker Chapter 6. The role of regional innovation systems in a globalizing economy: comparing knowledge bases and institutional frameworks of Nordic clusters, Bjørn Asheim and Lars Coenen Chapter 7. Spatial externalities and local employment dynamics, Raffaele Paci and Stefano Usai Chapter 8. Accessibility and regional growth in Europe: the role of ICT policies, Roberta Capello and Alessia Spairani Chapter 9. Regional inequalities and EU enlargement: the macrospatial dimension, Marinella Terrasi Series Information: Routledge Studies in Global Competition Author Biography: Giovanna Vertova is an Assistant Professor in Political Economy at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Full Contributors: Bjørn T. Asheim is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Lund (Sweden), and Professor at the Centre of Technology, Innovation, and Culture, University of Oslo (Norway). Riccardo Bellofiore is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo, as well as Research Associate, in the History and Methodology of Economics Group at the University of Amsterdam. Roberta Capello is Professor of Regional and Urban Economics at the Politecnico of Milan. Lars Coenen is PhD candidate at CIRCLE, the multidisciplinary Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy, and the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Lund University (Sweden). Sergio Conti is currently Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Turin, where he has been the Dean from 2002 to 2005. Paolo Giaccaria is Lecturer in Economic and Politica at the University of Turin. Raffaele Paci is Professor of Economics at the University of Cagliari and Director of CRENoS (Centre for North South Economic Research). Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography, and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. Alessia Spairani is a researcher at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engeneering at the Politecnico of Milan. Peter G.M. Swann is Professor of Industrial Economics at the University of Nottingham Business School. Marinella Terrasi is Associate Professor of Regional Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Pisa. Stefano Usai is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Cagliari and a researcher of CRENoS (Center for North-South Economic Research). Giovanna Vertova is Assistant Professor at the University of Bergamo. Richard Walker is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Università di Bergamo Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/pers/?riccardo.bellofiore
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