Economic Geography : Places, Networks and Flows

ISBN-13: 9780415401814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str.

Andrew Wood;Susan M. Roberts

Opis

With intellectual roots dating back to the ninteenth century economic geography has traditionally sought to examine the spatial distributions of economic activity and the principles that account for them. More recently the field has turned its attention to a range of questions relating to: globalization and its impact on different peoples and places; economic inequalities at different geographic scales; the development of the knowledge-based economy and the relationship between economy and environment.

This text is designed, first and foremost, to provide an introduction to economic geography by establishing the substantive concerns of economic geographers, the methods deployed to study them, the key concepts and theories that animate the field, and the major issues generating debate. It is as much about approaches to economic geography as it is about changing economic geographies on the ground. It encompasses traditional approaches, albeit from a critical perspective, while at the same time providing a thorough and yet accessible examination of the concerns, methods and approaches of the ‘new economic geography’.

Lucid and engaging, this is the first introductory text to cover the breadth of economic geography while also engaging with a range of contemporary debates at the cutting-edge of the field. The text is designed to provide a thorough and systematic introductory survey. The pedagogical value of the book has been enhanced by the inclusion of exercises, questions, annotated further reading and websites and numerous examples and cases from across the globe.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Traditional Economic Geographies  2. Traditional Location Theory  3. Modeling Economic Geographies  Part 2: Geographies of the Firm and Other Institutions  4.  The Geographies of the Firm  5. Going Global  Part 3: Geographies of Uneven Development  6. Geographic Inequalities  7. The Changing Fortunes of Local and Regional Economies  Part 4: Geographies of Networks, Places and Flows  8. Economic Geography 'Unbound'  9. Conclusions

O autorze

Andrew Wood is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. He is an economic, urban and political geographer with research interests in urban and regional governance, the politics of local economic development and issues relating to competition and collaboration between firms.

Sue Roberts is Professor and Chair of Geography at the University of Kentucky where she is also affiliated with the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and the Committee on Social Theory.  Her research interests are in economic and political geography and development studies.