Peter Dicken: Activity

Peter Dicken is British geographer. Explore interesting quotes on activity.

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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.”

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