1.

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953386503321

Titolo

Germany : money & banking

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Petaluma, Calif., : World Trade Press, c2010

ISBN

9781607808756

1607808757

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (22 p.)

Disciplina

332.1

332.4

Soggetti

Banks and banking - Germany

Money - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Sommario/riassunto

Money is a primary need when you're on the road and has the potential to cause major stress. Get the upper hand with this informative report on currency, traveler's checks, money wiring, ATMs, banks, and credit cards in Germany.