GEOG 216- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 188 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Global assembly lines: mccain"s french fries in new brunswick (potatoes from different countries with machinery from other countries, emergence of new actors on the global stage: institutions, conventions, agreements, quantitative and qualitative changes that facilitate global and. Berlin wall, free market liberal democracies are now trumping the world over: t. friedman, the world is flat : world is borderless, frictionless; distance is dead, geography no longer matters, transformationalists (in between the hyperglobalizers and. Importance of the role of mncs: composite index: global connectedness index, trade flows (volume of exports and imports); capital flows; information flows; migration flows. Intensifaction (growing magnitude) of transactions/interconnectedness: speeding up (increase velocity of transactions, with technological change, falling transportation rates, lower transaction rates, magnified local-global impacts: unfolds simultaneously over multiple geographic scales. Ranked round 20th: aggregate, europe: used to be about 42% of manufacturing value-added declined, value-added: difference between the outputs and their values minus the inputs and their costs.
