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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455509003321

Titolo

The new industrial geography : regions, regulations and institutions / / [edited by] Trevor J. Barnes and Meric S. Gertler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-60225-1

1-280-33688-9

0-203-02186-X

0-203-15933-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; ; 22

Altri autori (Persone)

BarnesTrevor J

GertlerMeric S

Disciplina

338.6/042

Soggetti

Industrial location

Regional economics

Industrial organization

Regional economic disparities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1 Industrial geography, institutional economics and Innis;  2 The resurgence of regional economics; 3 The co-operative advantage of regions; 4 Reversing attrition?; 5 Sticky places in slippery space; 6 Harnessing the region; 7 Rules as resources; 8 Continentalism in an era of globalization; 9 The firm in the region and the region in the firm; 10 The production of industrial processes; 11 Does nationality still matter?; 12 Capital and creative destruction; 13 Institutional issues for the European regions; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography  opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to be the perfect basis for



understanding the profound economic and geographical changes of the last two decades, and on which also to build a new kind of industrial geography. Issues covered include: the retheorization of the geography of industrial districts; the analysis of institutional 'thi