A companion to economic geography /

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field. Place...

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Other Authors: Sheppard, Eric S., Barnes, Trevor J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2003.
Edition:[Paperback ed.].
Series:Blackwell companions to geography ; 2.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A Companion to Economic Geography; Contents; Contributors; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography; PART I WORLDS OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; 2 Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960; 3 The Modeling Tradition; 4 The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism; 5 Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender; 6 Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography; 7 Poststructural Interventions; PART II REALMS OF PRODUCTION; 8 The Geography of Production; 9 Places of Work
  • 10 Industrial Districts11 Competition in Space and between Places; 12 Urban and Regional Growth; 13 Geography and Technological Change; PART III RESOURCE WORLDS; 14 Resources; 15 Agriculture; 16 Political Ecology; 17 The Production of Nature; 18 Single Industry Resource Towns; PART IV SOCIAL WORLDS; 19 Family, Work and Consumption: Mapping the Borderlands of Economic Geography; 20 Concepts of Class in Contemporary Economic Geography; 21 Labor Unions and Economic Geography; 22 State and Governance; 23 Creating the Corporate World: Strategy and Culture, Time and Space; 24 Networks of Ethnicity
  • PART V SPACES OF CIRCULATION25 The Economic Geography of Global Trade; 26 Money and Finance; 27 The Political Economy of International Labor Migration; 28 Transportation: Hooked on Speed, Eyeing Sustainability; 29 Telecommunications and Economic Space; 30 International Political Economy; Index