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Author:   Neil Coe ,  Philip Kelly ,  Henry W. C. Yeung
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Edition:   2nd Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.976kg
ISBN:  

9780470943380

ISBN 10:   0470943386
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   13 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures xi List of Tables xv List of Boxes xvii Preface xx Acknowledgements xxvi Part I Conceptual Foundations 1 1 Thinking Geographically 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Location and Distance 6 1.3 Territory 12 1.4 Place 14 1.5 Scale 17 1.6 Summary 23 2 The Economy: What Does It Mean? 27 2.1 Introduction 27 2.2 The Taken-for-Granted Economy 29 2.3 A Brief History of ‘‘the Economy’’ 30 2.4 Basic Economic Processes 38 2.5 Beyond the Assumptions of Economics 43 2.6 Summary 50 3 Capitalism In Motion: Why Is Economic Growth So Uneven? 55 3.1 Introduction 55 3.2 Uneven Development – Naturally! 57 3.3 Fundamentals of the Capitalist System 58 3.4 Inherent Uneven Geographies of Capitalism 64 3.5 Placing and Scaling Capitalism 67 3.6 Going Beyond National Capitalism: A ‘‘Global California’’? 72 3.7 Summary 76 Part II Making the (Spatial) Economy 81 4 The State: Who Runs The Economy? 83 4.1 Introduction 83 4.2 The ‘‘Globalization Excuse’’ and the End of the State? 86 4.3 The State as the Architect of the National Economy 88 4.4 Varieties of States 100 4.5 Rescaling the State 108 4.6 Hollowing-Out the State? 117 4.7 Summary 119 5 Environment/Economy: Can Nature Be A Commodity? 123 5.1 Introduction 123 5.2 How Is Nature Counted in Economic Thought? 126 5.3 Incorporating Nature: Commodification and Ownership 128 5.4 Valuing Nature: The Commodification of Environmental Protection 141 5.5 Human Nature: The Body as Commodity 146 5.6 Summary 150 6 Labor Power: Can Workers Shape Economic Geographies? 154 6.1 Introduction 154 6.2 Is Labor at the Mercy of Globally Mobile Capital? 157 6.3 Geographies of Labor: Who Shapes Labor Markets? 159 6.4 Labor Geographies: Workers as Agents of Change 170 6.5 Migrant Labor 177 6.6 Beyond Capital versus Labor: Toward Alternative Ways of Working? 180 6.7 Summary 183 7 Making Money: Why Has Finance Become So Powerful? 187 7.1 Introduction 187 7.2 Is Global Finance Placeless? 191 7.3 Financing Production: The Evolution of Banking 193 7.4 The Rise of Global Finance 201 7.5 Circulating Capital: Financialization 211 7.6 Summary 216 Part III Organizing Economic Space 221 8 Commodity Chains: Where Does Your Breakfast Come From? 223 8.1 Introduction 223 8.2 Capitalism, Commodities, and Consumers 225 8.3 Linking Producers and Consumers: The Commodity Chain Approach 229 8.4 Re-regulating Commodity Chains: The World of Standards 244 8.5 Where Does a Commodity Chain End? From Waste to Commodities Again 255 8.6 Summary 256 9 Technological Change: Is The World Getting Smaller? 261 9.1 Introduction 261 9.2 The Universalization of Technology? 263 9.3 The Space-Shrinking Technologies 266 9.4 Product and Process Technologies 278 9.5 The Uneven Geography of Technology Creation 288 9.6 Summary 290 10 The Transnational Corporation: How Does The Global Firm Keep It All Together? 294 10.1 Introduction 294 10.2 The Myth of Being Everywhere, Effortlessly 296 10.3 Value Activity and Production Networks: The Basic Building Blocks of TNCs 298 10.4 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 1: Intra-firm Relationships 302 10.5 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 2: Inter-firm Relationships 312 10.6 Are There Cultural Limits to Global Reach? 324 10.7 Summary 329 11 Spaces of Sale: How And Where Do We Shop? 333 11.1 Introduction 333 11.2 Explaining Retail Geographies: Central Place Theory and Beyond 335 11.3 The Shifting Geographies of Retailing 338 11.4 The Configuration of Retail Spaces 353 11.5 Constructing Needs and Desires: The Advertising Industry 361 11.6 Summary 365 Part IV People, Identities, And Economic Life 369 12 Clusters: Why Do Proximity And Place Matter? 371 12.1 Introduction 371 12.2 Industrial Location Theory 373 12.3 Binding Clusters Together: Agglomeration Economies 376 12.4 Untraded Interdependencies and Regional Cultures of Production 380 12.5 Toward a Typology of Clusters? 389 12.6 Rethinking Proximity 391 12.7 Summary 398 13 Gendered Economies: Does Gender Shape Economic Lives? 402 13.1 Introduction 402 13.2 Seeing Gender in the Economy 404 13.3 Gendered Patterns of Unpaid Work 406 13.4 Gendering Jobs and Workplaces 410 13.5 Home, Work, and Space in the Labor Market 422 13.6 Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Strategies 423 13.7 Toward a Feminist Economic Geography? 426 13.8 Summary 428 14 Ethnic Economies: Do Cultures Have Economies? 432 14.1 Introduction 432 14.2 ‘‘Color Blind’’ Economics 434 14.3 Ethnic Sorting in the Workforce 436 14.4 Ethnic Businesses and Clusters 445 14.5 The Economic Geographies of Transnationalism 453 14.6 The Limits to Ethnicity 460 14.7 Summary 462 15 Consumption: You Are What You Buy 466 15.1 Introduction 466 15.2 Interpreting the Consumption Process 468 15.3 The Changing Global Consumption Landscape 471 15.4 Cultures of Consumption, Place, and Identity 476 15.5 Toward an Ethical Consumption Politics? 484 15.6 Consuming Places: Travel and Tourism 487 15.7 Summary 493 Part V Conclusion 497 16 Economic Geography: Intellectual Journeys And Future Horizons 499 16.1 Introduction 499 16.2 A Changing Field 501 16.3 A Changing World 513 16.4 Summary 517 Index 521

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About the Authors: Neil M. Coe is Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore. Philip F. Kelly is Professor of Geography at York University, Canada. Henry W.C. Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore.

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