Remaking the Global Economy

Jamie Peck is Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy, Distinguished University Scholar, and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Previously, he was a professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Manchester. With research interests in urban restructuring, geographical political economy, labor studies, the politics of policy formation and mobility, and economic geography, he is currently working on theories of capitalist restructuring and the political economy of neoliberalization. His recent books include Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (2017, Oxford), Fast Policy: Experimental statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (2015, Minnesota, with Nik Theodore), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2012, Wiley-Blackwell, coedited with Trevor Barnes & Eric Sheppard), and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford). Jamie Peck is the managing editor of EPA: Economy and Space and the editor in chief of the Environment and Planning journals.

′A well-deserved celebration of economic geography′s seminal contributions to globalization studies′ - Michael Storper, University of California, Los Angeles

• Making Global Connections - Henry Wai-chung Yeung and Jamie PeckA Geographer′s PerspectivePART ONE: GROUNDING GLOBAL FLOWS`Placing′ Firms - Peter DickenGrounding the Debate on the `Global′ CorporationGlobalization, Transnationalism and the Asia-Pacific - Neil M Coe, Philip F Kelly and Kris OldsThe Marginalization of Everywhere? Emerging Geographies of Emerging Markets - Roger LeeThe Globalization of Environmental Management - Erica SchoenbergerInternational Investment in the Water, Waste-Water and Solid Waste IndustriesPART TWO: PLACING GLOBAL KNOWLEDGEThe Spatial Life of Things - Meric S GertlerThe Real World Practice within the Global FirmSpaces of Corporate Learning - Ash AminThe Might of `Might′ - Nigel ThriftHow Social Power Is Being RefiguredBeyond the Cluster - Local Milieux and Global Connections - Anders MalmbergPART THREE: REFIGURING GLOBAL RULESMaking Global Rules - Adam Tickell and Jamie PeckGlobalization or Neoliberalization?Globalization: Faustian Bargain, Development Saviour or More of the Same? The Case of the Developing World and the Emerging International Trade Regime - Amy Glasmeier and Michael Conroy`Glocalization′ as a State Spatial Strategy - Neil BrennerUrban Entrepreneurialism and the New Politics of Uneven Development in Western EuropeGlobal Production Systems and European Integration - Ray HudsonDe-Regionalizing, Re-Regionalizing and Re-Scaling Production Systems in Europe