The cosmopolitanization of trade regions: Global trends and implications, 1965-1990

Economic Geography

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 390-404

  Poon, Jessie P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Extraregionalization; Imperfect competition; Integrated networks; Regional cosmopolitanism; Regionalization; Scale economies

Indexed keywords

ECONOMY OF SCALE; GLOBAL ECONOMY; HISTORICAL TRENDS; REGIONAL TRADE; TRADE RELATIONS;

EID: 0031405443     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1997.tb00096.x     Document Type: Review

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