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Index
access 26, 32
to employment 28–9, 32
accumulation 105
dynamics of, space and 72
extension of arena of 222
regimes of 70
acquisitions 201
activism 209–10
actor-network theory 15, 149, 231
adaptation 168
adaptive behaviour 188
advocacy
networks 130–1
scholarly-informed 97
agency 28, 50, 71, 74
agglomeration 16, 59, 121, 177
forms 178
roots in monopolistic competition 63
agrarian capitalism 108
agribusiness 108
agriculture 25, 108
air freight 138–9
anti-foundationalism 225
appreciative theory 245
ArtsFund 189
Asian capitalism
globalizing 146, 148–51
research needs 152
policy formulation in reshaping 152–3
Asian exceptionalism 150
Asian TNCs 146–53
family in ownership and control 148
assets, organization of 162
Association of American Geographers
(AAG), Centennial Meeting 1, 2, 7
atomistic exchange relations 65
back-yard capitalism 63
banking 40
baseball, economic impact 193
Bay Area 104, 106–9
BEA economic areas 190–1
behaviour, environment and 89
behavioural geography 28, 48–9, 200
benchmarking 160, 170–1
Berkeley Roundtable on the
International Economy 210
between-ness 182
body shopping 142
borderless world 148
BPS 121
branch plants 145, 201–2, 205
brand reputation 131
Bush administration 223
business climate, people climate vs 182
business cycles 104
business and professional services 
(BPS) 121
business systems, variation in 148–9
California 107–8
capital, reputational 131
capital gaps 87
capitalism
agrarian 108
back-yard 63
evils of 13–14
expansion into developing nations 143
guanxi 150
hybrid 151
late 70
managerial 84
as market exchange 13

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capitalism (Continued)
re-description 70
social change in 68
socio-cultural resonances 66
capitalist economies 49–50
non-capitalist economies and 49
capital theory 105
caring labour 41–2
Central Place Theory 27, 32
China
as global workshop 138
migration of jobs to 248
telecommunications 139
Chinese capitalism 150–1
CIRCLE 180, 181, 183
civil rights movement 95
class, social 71 97, 106
class struggle 104, 105, 106
climate change 131
Clinton administration 211
clustered economic systems 64
clusters 164, 166, 169, 182–3, 212 
see also industrial districts
cognitive ability, decision-making 
and 89
collective action 71
collective consumption 35, 36
commodity, hermeneutics of 66
commodity production 14, 83
commuting 235, 236
comparative advantage theory 166
competition, new economics of 164
competitive advantage 162, 178
localized 64–5
competitiveness
as contentious concept 161–3
discourse of 159–61
national, definition 161–2
as only goal of development 
strategies 230
strategies for 223
urban 160, 161, 164, 170