The Global City: New York, London, TokyoIn her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel changes. The book reorients the way we think about how cities shape and are shaped by globalization and provides lessons for the future. |
Contents
Three | 37 |
4A Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the United States | 41 |
Goods 19911997 bn of USD | 54 |
Four | 65 |
Five | 90 |
Appendices | 132 |
Seven | 171 |
Leading Currencies in International Transactions | 187 |
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