Regions and the World Economy

One of the dramatic shifts that is occurring in the world system as we enter the twenty-first century is the increasing openness and interpenetration of national economies and sovereign states. This shift is associated on the one hand with the beginnings of a progressive transfer of certain economic and political functions upward to the plurinational and global levels; and on the other hand with a countervailing trend to the reinforcement of economic and political life at the subnational, regional level. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of these developments, with special reference to a reconceptualization of the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange. The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the re-assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. As a corollary, many regions in the modern world are also beginning to acquire an intense self-consciousness of themselves as socio-political and economic entities, and all the more so as they increasingly find themselves bound together in both competitive and collaborative relationships across national borders. The significance of these tendencies for new kinds of political mobilization is explored, and their potential impacts of substantive forms of democracy and citizenship in the new world order are assessed.

ISBN 0198296584   Pages 190 ISBN13 9780198296584 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 285 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 16 Dec 1999   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress HF1025   Spine width (mm) 10 DEWEY 338.9   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

1. Regions and the World Economy; 2. The National Economy and the Sovereign State; 3. The Coming Break-Up of National Economies?; 4. The Global Mosaic of Regional Economies; 5. The Regional Foundations of Economic Performance; 6. Collective Order and Regional Development: Social and Cultural Regulation of Local Economic Systems; 7. Prospects for Poor Regions; 8. A World of Regions; 9. The Changing Geopolitics of Production, Competition, and Regional Interdependence

."..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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