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Record Nr.

UNISA996218602803316

Titolo

Reading economic geography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Trevor J. Barnes ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1-281-32307-1

9786611323073

0-470-75571-7

0-470-75474-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 p.)

Collana

Blackwell readers in geography

Altri autori (Persone)

BarnesTrevor J

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Economic geography

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

Reading Economic Geography; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Economic Geography; Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography; Introduction: Paradigms Lost; 1 The Difference a Generation Makes; 2 Industry and Space: A Sympathetic Critique of Radical Research; 3 An Institutionalist Perspective on Regional Economic Development; 4 Refiguring the Economic in Economic Geography; 5 The Economy, Stupid! Industrial Policy Discourse and the Body Economic; Part II: Realms of Production; Introduction: Problematizing Production

6 Is There a Service Economy? The Changing Capitalist Division of Labor7 Uneven Development: Social Change and Spatial Divisions of Labor; 8 Flexible Production Systems and Regional Development: The Rise of New Industrial Spaces in North America and Western Europe; 9 Global–Local Tensions: Firms and States in the Global Space-Economy; 10 The Politics of Relocation: Gender, Nationality, and Value in a Mexican Maquiladora; Part III: Resource Worlds; Introduction: Producing Nature; 11

Sommario/riassunto

This reader introduces students to examples of the most important research in the field of economic geography.:.; Brings together the most important research contributions to economic geography.;



Editorial commentary makes the material accessible for students.; The editors are highly respected in their field.