Global Economic System

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

Provides a unique treatment of world economic geography as a whole and examines the principle philosophies that have shaped our study of it, identifies the importance of the biophysical as well as cultural and political environments.

Additional text

`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

Product details

• Authors: I. Wallace, Wallace I.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138419049
• ISBN: 978-1-138-41904-9
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, Economic Geography, International Economics