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| show | Savings in cost of production that comes from increasing production of a good.
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| show | Cluster of inventions and innovations that brought large-scale economic changes in agriculture, commerce- and manufacturing in late eighteenth century Europe.
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| show | An area of economic production that is located inland and is connected to the world by a port.
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| show | A set of interconnected nodes without a center.
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| show | Benefit a service or product receives by being the first to market.
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| show | Processes heightening interactions, increasing interdependence, and deepening relations across country borders.
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| show | Manufacturing system in which raw materials are brought into a central location and component parts and the final product are produced at the same location and then shipped globally.
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| Vertical Integration | show 🗑
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| show | Understanding the distribution of cities, industries, services, or consumers with the goal of explaining why places are chosen as sites of production or consumption. The von Thünen model is an example.
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| show | Cost advantages created when similar businesses cluster in the same location. For example, car manufacturers cluster in a city or region to tap into a skilled labor force and access infrastructure, services, and technology.
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| show | Determining the location of manufacturing based on minimizing three critical expenses: labor, transportation, and agglomeration. Model developed by Alfred Weber.
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| Friction of distance | show 🗑
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| Intermodal | show 🗑
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| Capitalism | show 🗑
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| Commodification | show 🗑
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| show | The ability of corporations to employ labor from around the world, made possible by the compression of time and space through innovations in communication and transportation systems.
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| show | Increasing connectedness between world cities from improved communication and transportation networks
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| show | Production system in which parts are delivered as needed to the assembly line so that parts are not warehoused, stored, or overproduced.
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| show | Connection point in a network, where goods and ideas flow in, out, and through the network.
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| show | Position of a place or area relative to others in a network.
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| show | Tapping into companies that specialize in production around the world to manufacture goods.
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| Global production networks | show 🗑
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| Newly industrializing countries (NIC) | show 🗑
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| Deindustrialization | show 🗑
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| show | A region in the northeastern United States that once had an extensive manufacturing industry but has been deindustrialized during the post-Fordist era.
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| show | Areas along or near major transportation corridors that are devoted to the research, development, and sale of high-technology products
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