Economic Geography: Past, Present and Future (Routledge Studies in Economic Geography)

Book Cover......Page 1
Halt-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Series-Title......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
International Advisory Board......Page 11
Series Preface......Page 12
Foreward......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 17
Contributors......Page 18
Introduction: The past, present and future of economic geography......Page 24
Section I Economic geography: Roots and legacy......Page 32
1 The economic geography project......Page 34
2 Thinking back, thinking ahead: Some questions for economic geographers......Page 47
3 Feminist economic geographies: Gendered identities, cultural economies and economic change......Page 57
4 The ‘new’ economic geography?......Page 70
5 A perspective of economic geography......Page 79
Section II Globalization and contemporary capitalism......Page 104
6 Setting the agenda: The geography of global finance......Page 106
7 Economic geography and political economy......Page 117
8 The education of an economic geographer......Page 126
9 On services and economic geography......Page 135
10 Towards an environmental economic geography......Page 149
11 Digitizing services: What stays where and why......Page 159
12 Globalizing Asian capitalisms: An economic-geographical perspective......Page 168
Section III Regional competitive advantage: Industrial change, human capital and public policy......Page 180
13 Economic geography and the new discourse of regional competitiveness......Page 182
14 Economic geography as (regional) contexts......Page 196
15 Approaching research methods in economic geography......Page 209
16 Manufacturing, corporate dynamics, and regional economic change......Page 220
17 On the intersection of policy and economic geography: Selective engagement, partial acceptance, and missed opportunities......Page 231
18 The new imperial geography......Page 244
19 Labour market geographies: Employment and non-employment......Page 256
20 Technology, knowledge, and jobs......Page 267
Index......Page 274