Peter Dicken: Economy

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“Geographically, the global economy is now multi-polar, as new centres of production have emerged in parts of what had been, historically, the periphery of the world economy. The world is now more accurately described as a 'mosaic of unevenness in a continual state of flux.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 15, Winners and Losers, p. 509

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“One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 16, Making a Living in Developed Countries, p. 525

“Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, The Financial Services Industries, p. 437

“It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.”

Peter Dicken

Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 17, Making a Living in Developing Countries, p. 569

“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

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