What globalization geographies teach

The nature of globalization is questioned. Is it a conjuncture cycle in the capitalist structure, or is it more than this, a transition to a new kind of economic and social structure? One points to changes occurring in the social relations of production which accompanies the evolution of the technical progresses, as for instance, the ascension of the class of executives, or the wage capitalists and to their relations with the Universities. The geography is presented as a product related to all the instances, and also presents deep changes, as for example, the ascension of the large emergent States in the world hierarchy, or in the fact that the density of shipping in the Pacific North is now higher than in the Atlantic North. Geographic scale acquires new significance with the development of the virtual economy: beside the large national economies of a continental or sub-continental dimension, one sees city states, or city islands playing the role of fiscal paradises. The globalization geographies are also worsening some dilemmas, as to the options between growth and environment.