Regional Analysis and the New International Division of Labor Applications of a Political Economy Approach

Throughout the world, a sense of crisis has settled in like a nightmare that refuses to leave. We look towards the horizon with apprehension. Major changes are afoot. Older industrial regions, once rich and powerful, stand by helplessly as factories close down. Poor countries are sliding into bankru...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moulaert, F., Salinas, P.W. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
Series:Population and Community Biology Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Regional Political Economy: An Introduction and Overview
  • I Theory, Method, and Concepts
  • 2 The Theories and Methods of Regional Science and Regional Political Economy Compared
  • 3 Social Spaceness and the Concept of Region
  • 4 Regions and Regionalism
  • 5 Commodity Production and Interregional Transfers of Value
  • II Applications to Developing Countries
  • 6 Mode of Production and Spatial Organization in Peru
  • 7 The Internationalization of Capital and the Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Mexico
  • III Applications to Developed Countries
  • 8 The Implications of Industry Restructuring for Spatial Organization in the United States
  • 9 The New Spatial Organization of the European and American Automotive Industries
  • 10 Labor Migration and the Role of the State: The Immigration Policy of the Belgian Government
  • List of Contributors