Industrial Location and Economic Integration
Subtitle:  Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in the New Europe
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781840642100
Subjects: Economic theory & philosophy; Industry & Industrial Studies; International economics; Ownership & organization of enterprises; Economic Integration; Location Of Industry; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Europe; Industries - General; International - Economics; Economic conditions; European Union countries; Industrial location; International economic relations; Regional disparities
Description: "In recent decades the world economy has been characterized by deepening and widening integration. Throughout this time, there have been concerns that this process may foster the geographical concentration of industries, a view substantiated by contributions to the new economic geography. In this book, Barbara Dluhosch opposes this position and presents an entirely different view of the consequences of globalization."

"Barbara Dluhosch identifies and analyses the main pillars of the new economic geography. She then presents an essentially new approach focusing on the decline of communication costs, and introduces cost competition and technological choice, which have largely been neglected. The policy implications of this are critically evaluated by drawing on experiences of European economic integration."--Jacket.