Global Shift, Fifth Edition: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, Peter DickenThis bestselling work is the definitive text on globalization. Peter Dicken provides a comprehensive, balanced yet critical account of globalization processes and their sweeping, highly uneven effects on peoples lives. Each chapter reflects current globalization and antiglobalization debates, the latest empirical developments, and new ideas about the shaping and reshaping of production, distribution, and consumption in the world economy. Of special

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esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life

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Randy Charles Epping cuts through the jargon to explain the fundamentals

and in a small New England town

producing such masterworks as the Guggenheim Museum

such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season

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