Globalization and Economic Geography: The World is Curved, Not Flat

By Philip McCann. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Urban Studies

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The Economic Performance of European Cities and City Regions: Myths and Realities (2013, background): “The 1990s was in many ways the first decade of the modern era of globalization (McCann, 2008), and a decade during which large core cities played an increasingly dominant role in the economy (McCann & Acs, 2011).”
Shifting horizons in local and regional development (2017, background): “They seek to explain trends in social and spatial disparities towards convergence or divergence or – in more recent language – towards a ‘flat’ or a ‘spiky’ world (McCann, 2008; Rodríguez-Pose & Crescenzi, 2008).”
Globalisation: Countries, Cities and Multinationals (2009, background): “The technological and institutional changes outlined above offer major advantages to multinational enterprises (MNEs) in that not only now is it easier than ever for them to invest in different countries, but it is also now cheaper than ever for them to engage in cross-border trade within their own ”
Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy (2011, background): “…and not specifically related to ICTs, most evidence suggests that increases in the adoption and adaptation of ICTs across a range of sectors has actually reinforced and exacerbated regional disparities over recent decades, rather than helped to narrow them (Gaspar and Glaeser 1998; McCann 2008).”
Rising powers, global capitalism and liberal global governance: A historical materialist account of the BRICs challenge (2014, background): “…into transnational production networks through foreign direct investment increases locally available capital stock, and can stimulate technical and epistemic diffusion — fuelling economic expansion and catch-up growth towards the world productivity frontier (Li and Liu, 2005; McCann, 2008a).”
Smart Specialization, Regional Growth and Applications to European Union Cohesion Policy (2015, background): “The result is that a more uneven interregional and international spatial distribution of activities has emerged according to the degrees of knowledge intensity embodied in activities (MCCANN, 2008; MCCANN and ACS, 2011).”
Agglomeration, clusters, and industrial policy (2013, background): “These complex production chains require careful coordination, and can imply high search, transaction, and management costs (McCann, 2008; Saxenian and Sabel, 2008).”
Buzz, Archipelago Economies and the Future of Intermediate and Peripheral Areas in a Spiky World (2013, background): “However, the spread effects beyond these boundaries hardly ever truly materialise, leading to ever-increasing economic spikes in core areas – as depicted in figure 1 (McCann, 2008) – at the expense of smaller intermediate agglomerations and peripheral areas, which first tend to specialise in low val”
The path- and place-dependent nature of scientific knowledge production in biotech 1986-2008 (2014, result): “This stands in contrast to the view propagated by Storper (1992), Florida (2004) McCann (2008), among others, that the world is spiky, not flat.”
Co-working Spaces in Milan: Location Patterns and Urban Effects (2017, background): “The exchange of tacit knowledge still requires face-to-face contacts, which may be frequent in the case of co-location (as it happens in CSs), or episodic by bringing people together through travel now and then (McCann, 2008).”