ABSTRACT
The global city is a thick environment that endogenizes the global and filters it through national institutional orders and imaginaries. It also helps render global internal components of the economy and, especially, the imaginaries of various groups. Studying globalization in this manner means people can engage in thick descriptions and do empirical research in specific sites rather than having to position ourself as a global observer. Economic corporate globalization is a system of power that uses some of the old capabilities that come out of the national state, but redeploys them. When it comes to corporate economic globalization the author argues that its organizational side is quite different from the consumer side. Most of the globalization literature has suffered deeply from the endogeneity problem in the social sciences. When the social sciences focus on globalization still rare enough deep in the academy it is typically not on these types of practices and dynamics but rather on the self-evidently global scale.
