Peter Dicken: Activation

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“A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, The Financial Services Industries, p. 469

Past

“In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 4, Technology: The Engine of change, p. 85

Change

“It serves to remind us that, in trying to explain the globalization of economic activity, we are dealing with the workings of a dynamic capitalist market system, and not just individual agents within it.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 7, Transnational Corporations, p. 202

“the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 7, Transnational Corporations, p. 200

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