The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places.

This bestselling work is the definitive text on globalization. Peter Dicken provides a comprehensive, balanced yet critical account of globalization processes and their sweeping, highly uneven effects on people’s lives.

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Widely adopted throughout the world, this definitive text comprehensively examines how the global economy works and its effects on people and places.

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Describes and explains the globalization of economic activity and examines some of its implications for countries and regions. Covers the period from 1960 to 1989.