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What is INTERNATIONALIZATION?
The EXTENT to which different national eco INTERACT with one another
What is GLOBALIZATION?
1) Set processes through which ECO ACTIVITIES are increasingly INTERCONNECTED

2) Emergence of new set of actors on global stage

3) Changes that facilitate GLOBAL INTEGRATION
What is HYPERGLOBALIZATION?
Belief that New world eco order: BORDERLESS ECO

NOT GOOD
What is the SKEPTICS?
Eco globalization= overblown myth on mislabeling of internationalization

--> world was more integrated before
What is TRANSFORMALIST?
Globalization= On going and transformative
What are the QUARTERNARY activities?
Handling and processing of KNOWLEDGE & info
(teaching, data processing)
When was the peak of America's Manufacturing belt?
1950 --> FORDISM
What does NY specialize in?
Apparel ind
Processed foods
Book publishing
What does NJ specialize in?
PHARMACEUTICALS
What does Pittsburg specialize in?
STEEL
What do the great lakes specialize in?
DETROIT= Motor city
CHICAGO= Meat packing / trains
What does CDA specialize in?
Mtl= Aerospace, alluminum, textile, pharmaceuticals

Southern ONT= Cars, steel, chemicals
San Francisco bay specializes in?
SILICON VALLEY= Largest manu area for semi conductors & micro chips
Seattle- Tacoma specializes in?
Aircrafts & computers
What are the 4 key industrial districts of Japan?
1) KANTO PLAIN (Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki) = #1 ind district

2) KANSAI District (Kobe-Kyoto-Osaka)

3) KITAKYUSHU district (conurbation of Kyushu islands)

4) TOYAMA district
What are the major industrial districts of China?
1) Northeast district= Largest ind district

2) Chang district: 2nd largest

3) Guangdong District
What are the 4 main patterns of production?
1) FROMAL SECTOR
2) INFORMAL SECTOR
3)DUALISM
4) PUBLIC GOODS
What is the FORMAL SECTOR?
Recognized by state
Subject to LAW, REGULATION, TAXATION
What is the INFORMAL SECTOR?
By pass state
small or family operation
"working under the table"
What is DUALISM?
Pattern of production that exists when extremes wealth & poverty live side by side in an eco
What are PUBLIC GOODS?
Pattern of production where Goods and services are provided communally (national defense)
What are the Factors of production?
LAND
LABOUR
FINANCIAL CAPITAL
What are the different forms of Financial Capital?
1) Physical capital:
-PRIVATE: (infrastrustures, equipment, buildings)
-PUBLIC: facilities for health, education, transport
2) Government policies: Interest rates, money supplies, social investment
What are the different ways to measure wealth?
- GDP
- PPP (purchasing power parity)
HDI?
Measures country's human dev
-Longevity, knowledge, standard of living
GDP-HDI = ?
GDP/cap
If positive= free services are offered
What is the TIME SPACE COMPRESSION?
Processes that revolutionize the qualities of space and time such that the ways in which we represent the world are ALTERED

=1 of the factors that encompasses globalization
CDA in pre 19th C:
CDA was part of the periphery= X staples to European core countries
CDA in Mid 19th C:
CDA X more to US that is beginning to industrialize
When was the CDA/US auto pact?
-1965
-Elimination of trade tariffs on cars and auto parts
1988 was important bc?
CDA US Fair trade agreement
1994 was important bc?
NAFTA
US+ CDA+ MEXICO
What is the opportunity cost?
EXCHANGE RATE
Construction of CANAL of SUEZ?
1869
1st OPIUM WAR was?
1840-42 between China and BEIC
When was the MERCANTALIST PERIOD?
16th- 19th Century
What were the major trading systems during the mercantalist period?
ATLANTIC TRADING SYSTEM (Cross Over system of trade)

EURASIAN trading system
What is the population LAG effect?
Continued growth AFTER achievement of replacement level of fertility is reached
For what reasons was there a RECESSION in late 1800s?
- Britain battles with rivals in World Eco

-DDE increase in industrialized countries: cheaper raw materials, new opportunities for investment capital, protected lines of commerce
What characterized the period between 1850-1920?
NEW ERA OF EMPIRE BUILDING:

ACCELERATED COLONIALISM in Asia, Pacific and Africa
What happened between 1720- 1780?
INTERNATIONAL TRADE x2
What are the POSITIVE effects of Globalization?
-Increase in Trade, Innovation, Volatility

-Increased INTRA-FIRM trade

-Job opportunities
What are the NEGATIVE impacts of Globalization?
- LOSS of Domestic control over Nation's own economy

-Job losses
What are the tasks of economic society?
1) Organize to produce enough goods and services to assure SURVIVAL

2) Arrange distribution of production so more production can take place

3) Answer fundamental questions: What,how, where, to whom and by whom
When and where did the Industrial Revolution start?
BRITAIN

LATE 18C
What is the CROSS OVER SYSTEM of TRADE?
System of MULTILATERAL trade established in the late 19C

Europe& N.A bought raw materials from less dev countries