It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist politic… - Peter Dicken

The primary driver of final consumer demand is, of course, the level of disposable income.

It serves to remind us that, in trying to explain the globalization of economic activity, we are dealing with the workings of a dynamic capitalist market system, and not just individual agents within it.

Every production network has spatiality - the particular geographical configuration and extent of its component elements and the links between them.