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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2008

Regional Context and Global Trade

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How should we think of the role of regions in relation to the global economy? Theory has surprising gaps when it comes to building a unified vision of these two scales of development. Two contributions to such a vision are proposed in this article. First, the relationship between geographic concentration and the regional economic specialization it underpins and globalization should be theorized as a dynamic process. Standard location and trade theory is not adequate for this task; instead, the dynamic relationship can be captured through growth theory. But capturing this dynamic relationship requires correcting growth theory to separate its local and its global components, which are, respectively, Marshall- Arrow and Romer externalities. Second, the missing element in all theories of geographic concentration and locally specialized development is an element labeled “context” here. A theory of context, in turn, raises important new questions about the dynamic welfare and developmental effects of contemporary processes of fragmenting and relocating production at a global scale.

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Sociologie
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hal-03619803 , version 1 (25-03-2022)

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Michael Storper. Regional Context and Global Trade. SASE (Society for the Advancement of SocioEconomics,), “Economic Flexibility an Social Stability in the Age of Globalization”, Jul 2008, San José, Costa Rica. ⟨hal-03619803⟩
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