The Global Economy in Transition

The forces promoting globalization; the factors reinforcing regionalization; population - the ultimate resource; food supplies - a limit to growth?; energy, minerals and the environment; price and other mechanisms for regulating exchange; rent gradients, land use and the structure of global systems; comparative costs and the geometry of industrial location; scale, externalities and agglomeration - the evolving structure of global industry; technology transitions and patterns of growth; patterns and dynamics of global economic transactions; trade regimes and global development.