Peter Dicken is a geographer

Geographer

A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...

, notable for his contributions to research into globalization

Globalization

Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...

, especially in his book Global Shift, which has sold many tens of thousand of copies. Global Shift is also known as the 'Globalization Bible' because of its factual and encyclopedic nature. The focus of the book is answering the questions What precisely is happening? and What does globalization mean for people? In the final chapter the question is How can the world be made a better place for all?

Dicken is currently an Emeritus Professor and continuing researcher into Global Patterns of Business and Globalisation, at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...

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Of his own research, Dicken states that his "research interests focus upon the changing multi-scalar geographies of the global economy and on the structures and dynamics of global production networks, particularly the relationships between transnational corporations and states."

Major works

• Global Shift (1986; new editions in 1992, 1998, 2003, 2007, and 2011)
• Location in Space (1972; new editions in 1978 and 1990; with Peter E. Lloyd)

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