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| Authors: |
David L. Rigby |
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Business & Economics · Social Science |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Guilford Pr (January 01, 1997)
ISBN: 9780898625745 |
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Reassessing common interpretations of postwar economic history and geography, this book focuses on the evolution of the global economy from the 1950s to the present. It integrates theoretical and empirical work and draws data from around the world, with detailed studies of two advanced industrialized nations - Japan and the United States; two semi-peripheral economies - Australia and Canada; and three newly industrializing countries - Brazil, South Korea, and Taiwan. The authors build on standard models of economic change to incorporate new developments in regional dynamics: they use nonlinear, nonequilibrium, and evolutionary arguments to frame discussions of profit rates, technological change, and interregional capital flows. They then assess traditional explanations of postwar economic growth and crisis - from fordism, organized capitalism, industrial divides, and technological regimes to falling rates of profit and golden ages. Highlighting the geographic form of postwar growth, namely, globalization, t |
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