Globalização: a questão da distância

"The extent to which the product content of trade and trade volumes shift is dependent on how high transportation costs go, and how well technologies can make up the slack. It could be the case, however, that at least some of the rapid globalisation of the past few decades was based upon an unsustainable dependence on cheap transportation. "

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