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Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society. This accessibly written overview of contemporary capitalism shows how the development of global supply chains, the global division of labour, and, in particular, the globalization of financial markets have become the drivers of this process, and assesses the consequences. Not only does this affect the way firms
operate, it also presents challenges for the nation state. The changing geography of capitalism underpinned by an expanding global division of labour and the integration of financial markets has undercut
the bordering logics necessary for the maintenance of national systems of production, national varieties of capitalism, and national systems of social protection. Reviewing a range of debates and theories across the contemporary social sciences - varieties of capitalism, financialization, global production networks - the book shows how the insights of economic geography can be usefully brought to bear in understanding current trends, and the changing relationships between
global financial markets, multinational firms, and contemporary welfare states. Wide-ranging, accessibly written, and inter-disciplinary, this short book is a most useful guide
for researchers and students across the social sciences.
Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society. This accessibly written overview of contemporary capitalism shows how the development of global supply chains, the global division of labour, and, in particular, the globalization of financial markets have become the drivers of this process, and assesses the consequences. Not only does this affect the way firms
operate, it also presents challenges for the nation state. The changing geography of capitalism underpinned by an expanding global division of labour and the integration of financial markets has undercut
the bordering logics necessary for the maintenance of national systems of production, national varieties of capitalism, and national systems of social protection. Reviewing a range of debates and theories across the contemporary social sciences - varieties of capitalism, financialization, global production networks - the book shows how the insights of economic geography can be usefully brought to bear in understanding current trends, and the changing relationships between
global financial markets, multinational firms, and contemporary welfare states. Wide-ranging, accessibly written, and inter-disciplinary, this short book is a most useful guide
for researchers and students across the social sciences.
1: The Geography of Finance
2: One World of Production?
3: Variegated Capitalism and the Firm
4: Comparing Financial Systems in a Global Economy
5: Financialization and the Welfare State
6: Corporate Transformation and Employee Pensions
7: The Global Financial Crisis and Beyond
Adam D. Dixon is a senior lecturer in economic geography at the
University of Bristol. His research focuses on comparative economic
geography, the geography of finance, and the political economy of
institutional investors. He is co-author with Gordon L. Clark and
Ashby H.B. Monk of Sovereign Wealth Funds: Legitimacy, Governance
and Global Power (2013, PUP) and co-editor with the same of
Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local (2009, OUP).
He is a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Global Projects
Center and has held visiting positions at Heidelberg University in
Germany and Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He has a
D.Phil from the
University of Oxford, and master's and bachelor's degrees,
respectively, from L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
(Sciences Po) and The George Washington University in Washington,
DC.
Both accessible and timely, the book is appropriate for a wide
audience in the social sciences, while advanced readers of economic
geography and Dixons prior work will certainly recognize the
significance of this contribution and find solace in relevancy.
*Ian M. Dunham, Said Business School, Oxford University, Journal of
Economic Geography*
Capitalism isnt what it used to be. And Adam Dixons New Geography
of Capitalism makes a bold case for thinking about capitalism in
new ways too. Thinking about capitalism as a variegated system, but
as a system nonetheless, allows Dixon to avoid the pitfalls of both
flat-earth convergence theory and those of institutionalist
accounts of national variety. His promising alternative takes the
problematic of integration seriously, not least as an engine of new
geographies.
*Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia*
While we have all been riveted on the financial crisis, a deeper
story about the financialization of the global economy has been
unfolding, with huge implications for social welfare and well-being
in the advanced industrial countries. Adam Dixons book provides the
essential guide to understanding this complex process.
*Erica Schoenberger, The Johns Hopkins University*
The New Geography of Finance is a tour de force. Its crystal-clear
synthesis of the literatures on contemporary capitalist and
financial systems, and its placement of financial-firm imperatives
at the centre of global dynamics and national economic evolution,
will shape debate on the evolution of finance for years to
come.
*Gary A. Dymski, Professor of Applied Economics, Leeds University
Business School, University of Leeds*
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