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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145574903321

Titolo

A companion to economic geography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, c2003

ISBN

0-631-21223-X

1-78034-066-4

1-4051-6643-6

1-281-30947-8

9786611309473

0-470-69344-4

0-470-69272-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (554 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to geography ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BarnesTrevor J

SheppardEric S

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic geography

Commercial geography

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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. Places economic geography in the wider context of geography. Contributions from leading international scholars in the field. Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field. Explores key debates, controversie