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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2008 1(3):351-370; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsn002
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society issue: The World is not Flat; Putting Globalisation in its Place [View the issue table of contents]

Globalization and economic geography: the world is curved, not flat

Philip McCann

Department of Economics, University of Waikato, Waikato 3240, New Zealand. pmccann{at}waikato.ac.nz
Department of Economics, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AW, UK. p.mccann{at}reading.ac.uk


  Abstract

This paper analyses the argument put that the world is becoming flatter from the perspective of economic geography and spatial economics. In order to do this, we consider the variety of empirical evidence available, much of which appears to be prima facie rather paradoxical. However, it is possible to reconcile all of the seemingly conflicting the evidence by adopting the argument that the global economy simultaneously exhibits trends towards both increasing globalization and localization. Cities are increasingly seen to be the critical context for growth. Using diagrams, we demonstrate that analytically the global economy is becoming even more curved.

Keywords: globalization, transactions, costs, cities, geography

Received on October 3, 2007. Accepted on December 21, 2007.

JEL Classifications:: F21, F23, R11, O33


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