Florida, Richard; Gulden, Tim; Mellander, Charlotta - In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 1 (2008) 3, pp. 459-476
This paper develops new data on mega-regions. It takes issue with theories of globalization which argue that global economic activity is being more widely decentralized--'the world is flat'. We use a global dataset of night-time light emissions to produce an objectively consistent set of...