An introduction to economic geography : globalisation, uneven development and place

Cover
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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface to the third edition
Part 1 FOUNDATIONS
	1 Introducing economic geography
		1.1 Introduction
		1.2 Key themes: globalisation, uneven development and place
		1.3 The economy and economic geography
		1.4 A political economy approach
		1.5 Outline of the book
	2 Approaches to economic geography
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Spatial analysis
		2.3 The new economic geography
		2.4 Geographical political economy
		2.5 New approaches in economic geography
		2.6 Summary
	3 From regional specialisation to global integration: changing geographies of production
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 The dynamics of capitalist production
		3.3 Industrialisation and regional specialisation
		3.4 From Fordism to flexible production
		3.5 New international divisions of labour
		3.6 Summary
Part 2 RESHAPING THE ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE: DYNAMICS AND OUTCOMES
	4 Capital unbound? Spatial circuits of finance and investment
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Money, credit and debt
		4.3 The changing geographies of money
		4.4 Financial crises and cycles
		4.5 The 2008-09 crisis, recession and faltering recovery
		4.6 The financialisation of the economy?
		4.7 Financialisation and the urbanisation of capital
		4.8 Summary
	5 Managing capitalism: states and changing forms of economic governance
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Understanding the changing nature of the'qualitative state'
		5.3 States as managers of national and regional economies
		5.4 Varieties of capitalism
		5.5 Neoliberalism, crisis and austerity
		5.6 Governing urban and regional development
		5.7 Summary
	6 Restructuring work and employment
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Conceptualising labour, work and social reproduction
		6.3 Globalisation and the restructuring of work
		6.4 Polarisation, flexibilisation and precarity in the labour market
		6.5 Labour agency in the global economy
		6.6 Summary
	7 Geographies of development
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 The project of development
		7.3 Theories of development
		7.4 Divergent trajectories of development
		7.5 Trade, liberalisation and livelihoods
		7.6 Contesting development: new forms of social and political mobilisation
		7.7 Summary
Part 3 REWORKING URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMIES
	8 Connecting cities: transport, communications and the digital economy
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 Transport infrastructure and urban and regional development
		8.3 Changing geographies of the digital economy
		8.4 The sharing economy
		8.5 Smart cities
		8.6 Summary
	9 Global production networks and regional development
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 The global production networks (GPN) approach
		9.3 Global production networks and regional development
		9.4 Attracting and embedding FDI as a development strategy
		9.5 Summary
	10 Urban agglomeration, innovation and creativity
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Cities, agglomeration and knowledge
		10.3 Cities, innovation and clusters
		10.4 Creative cities
		10.5 Summary
Part 4 REORDERING ECONOMIC LIFE
	11 Consumption and retail
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Understanding consumption, consumers and commodities
		11.3 Changing patterns of consumption
		11.4 Spaces and places of consumption
		11.5 The restructuring and internationalisation of retail
		11.6 Summary
	12 Economic geography and the environment
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Nature, climate change and economic development
		12.3 A critical economic geography of the environment
		12.4 Sustainability transitions: the multi-level perspective and beyond
		12.5 The emerging economic geography of energy transition
		12.6 Summary
	13 Alternative economic geographies
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Capitalism and its alternatives
		13.3 Alternative economic spaces
		13.4 Alternative global networks of trade and development
		13.5 Summary
Part 5 PROSPECTS
	14 Conclusions
		14.1 Summary of key themes
		14.2 Contested futures: globalisation, inequality and populism
Glossary
Index