A companion to economic geography / / edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, UK ; ; Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Publishers, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (554 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9
• Soggetto topico: Economic geography; Commercial geography
• Altri autori: BarnesTrevor J SheppardEric S
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to economic geography
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910677755003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to geography ; ; 2.