Bringing Economic Geography Back In: Global Cities and the Governance of Commodity Chain

Introduction This chapter departs from the observation that global city research has, 20 years after Sassen’s “The Global City”, reached an impasse. Though scholars largely agree that global cities are places from where the world economy is managed and controlled, we have little empirical evidence showing how producer service firms in global cities help to link economies on different geographical scales. Even less of an effort was made to explore the extent to which the presence of sizeable c..