Available statistics tell us little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, we perform grass roots detective work to uncover the geography of value added in the case of a Nokia N95 smartphone circa 2007. The...

With the increasing ease of communication and transportation, the falling costs of processing and transferring information, and the major political and societal changes that have occurred in recent years, the link between economies of scale and the geographic concentration of production has...