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Cottage industries | show 🗑
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Economies of scale | show 🗑
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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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Situation | show 🗑
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Network | show 🗑
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First Mover Advantage | show 🗑
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Secondary Hearths | show 🗑
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Globalization | show 🗑
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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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show | The merging of businesses that serve different steps in one commodity chain.
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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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Agglomeration | show 🗑
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Least Cost Theory | show 🗑
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show | Difficulty in time and cost that usually comes with increasing distance.
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show | Where two or more modes of transportation meet (including air, road, rail, barge, and ship).
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show | Economic system where people, corporations, and states produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit.
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Commodification | show 🗑
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Global division of labor | show 🗑
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Time-space compression | show 🗑
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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 | The movement of production from one site to another based on the place-based cost advantages of the new site.
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Node | show 🗑
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Commodity chain | show 🗑
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Outsourcing | show 🗑
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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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Break of Bulk Point | show 🗑
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show | Decline in industry in a region or economy. Happens when companies move industry to other regions or mechanize production.
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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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High-Technology Corridor | show 🗑
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