Where we stand: a decade of world city research

Abstract

As an interlocking system of production and markets, the global economy is a discovery of the 1970s (Barnet and Müller 1974). At the time there was a good deal of controversy over the so-called 'new international division of labour' (Fröbel et al. 1980) and a centuries-old 'world system' (Wallerstein 1974). Research paradigms were being born.