Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Detailed Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Part I Conceptual Foundations
	Chapter 1 Geography: How do we think spatially?
		1.1 Introduction: Message in a Bottle
		1.2 Bottled Water: A Contentious Commodity
		1.3 Location and Patterns in Space
		1.4 The Uniqueness of Place
		1.5 Connecting Across Space Through Networks
		1.6 Defining and Controlling Space Through Territory
		1.7 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 2 The Economy: What does it mean?
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 What ‘Counts’ as the Economy?
		2.3 A Brief History of ‘the Economy’
		2.4 Basic Economic Processes
		2.5 From Economics to Economic Geography
		2.6 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Further learning resources
		References
	Chapter 3 Dynamics of Capitalism: Why is economic growth so uneven?
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Uneven Development – Naturally!
		3.3 Fundamentals of the Capitalist System
		3.4 The Spaces and Scales of Uneven Geographical Development
		3.5 Can Places and Regions Chart Their Own Futures?
		3.6 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 4 Networks: How is the world economy interconnected?
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 The Missing Relations Between Producers and Consumers?
		4.3 Production Networks: Connecting Distant Places and Economies
		4.4 Bringing Commodities Together: The Logistics Revolution
		4.5 Where Does a Production Network End? From Waste to Commodities Again
		4.6 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
Part II Key Economic Actors
	Chapter 5 Transnational Corporations: How do they keep it all together?
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 The Myth of Being Everywhere, Effortlessly
		5.3 The Changing Organization of TNCs
		5.4 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 1 – Intra-firm Relationships
		5.5 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 2 – Inter-firm Relationships
		5.6 The Risks of Global Presence
		5.7 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 6 Labour: Are migrant workers the new normal?
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Are Migrants the Problem?
		6.3 Territorial Power and Migrant Types
		6.4 Migrant Labour and Places of Settlement
		6.5 Migrant Labour and Places of Origin
		6.6 Organizing Migrant Labour
		6.7 The Migration Industry
		6.8 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 7 Consumers: Who decides what we buy?
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Towards Viewing Consumption as a Sociocultural Process
		7.3 The Shifting Spatial Patterns of Retailing
		7.4 Uneven Geographies of Consumption
		7.5 Consuming Places: Travel and Tourism
		7.6 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 8 Finance: How has capital become so powerful?
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 How is the Real Economy Financed?
		8.3 Deregulation and the Rise of Global Finance
		8.4 Putting Global Finance in Its Place
		8.5 Financialization: Circulating Global Capital
		8.6 A Different Kind of Finance?
		8.7 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
Part III Governing the Economy
	Chapter 9 States: Who runs the economy?
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Neo-liberal Globalization and the End of the State?
		9.3 The State as the Architect of the National Economy
		9.4 Varieties of Capitalisms and States
		9.5 Graduated Sovereignty and the State
		9.6 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 10 International Institutions: How do they govern and foster global development?
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 A Market Mechanism for the ‘Global South’?
		10.3 Governing the Global Economy
		10.4 Fostering Development in the Global South
		10.5 Bottom-Up? The Rise of Community-Based Development
		10.6 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 11 Environment: Does global climate change change everything?
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Climate Complacency
		11.3 Causes and Sources of Climate Change
		11.4 The Impacts and Costs of Climate Change
		11.5 Regulating Emissions
		11.6 Geographies of the Green Economy
		11.7 Should this Change Everything?
		11.8 Summary
		Notes on references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
Part IV Social and Cultural Dimensions
	Chapter 12 Clusters: Why does proximity matter?
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Industrial Location Theory
		12.3 Towards a Typology of Clusters?
		12.4 Binding Clusters Together: Agglomeration Economies
		12.5 Untraded Interdependencies and Regional Cultures of Production
		12.6 A Dynamic Approach to Clusters
		12.7 Can Clusters Be Temporary?
		12.8 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 13 Identities: Are economies gendered and racialized?
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Seeing Gender and Race in the Economy
		13.3 Uneven Geographies of Gender and Work
		13.4 Gender, Race, and the Labour Market
		13.5 Identity and the Workplace
		13.6 Ethnic Clusters and Networks
		13.7 Intersecting Identities
		13.8 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
	Chapter 14 Alternatives: Can we create diverse economies?
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 Beyond a ‘Capitalocentric’ View of the Economy
		14.3 Alternative Markets
		14.4 Alternative Enterprises
		14.5 Alternative Working
		14.6 Alternative Property
		14.7 The Limits to Diverse Economies?
		14.8 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
Part V Conclusion
	Chapter 15 Economic Geography: Intellectual journeys and future horizons
		15.1 Introduction
		15.2 A Changing Field
		15.3 A Changing World
		15.4 Summary
		Notes on the references
		Sample essay questions
		Resources for further learning
		References
Index
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