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• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2002.
• Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Awards.

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Author:   Gordon L. Clark (Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Fellow, St Peter's College, Oxford) ,  Meric S. Gertler (Goldring Professor of Canadian Studies and Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto) ,  Maryann P. Feldman (Research Scientist, Institute for Policy Studies, and Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.093kg
ISBN:  

9780199250837

ISBN 10:   0199250839
Pages:   772
Publication Date:   10 July 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Economic Geography: Transition and Growth ; 2. Economic Geography: The Great Half Century ; PART I. CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES ; SECTION 1: MAPPING THE TERRITORY ; 3. Where in the World is the 'New Economic Geography'? ; 4. Doing Regulation ; SECTION 2: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS ; 5. The New Economics of Urban and Regional Growth ; 6. Geography or Economics? Conceptions of Space, Time, Interdependence, and Agency ; PART II. GLOBAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ; SECTION 3: INVESTMENT AND TRADE ; 7. The Geography of International Investment ; 8. Globalization, Localization, and Trade ; SECTION 4: DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT ; 9. Geography and Economic Development ; 10. The Great Tablecloth: Bread and Butter Politics and the Political Economy of Food and Poverty ; SECTION 5: FINANCE CAPITAL ; 11. The Regulation of International Finance ; 12. Finance and Localities ; PART III. CORPORATE STRUCTURE, STRATEGY, AND LOCATION ; SECTION 6: COMPETITION, LOCATION, AND STRATEGY ; 13. Locations, Clusters, and Company Strategy ; 14. Places and Flows: Situating International Investment ; 15. The Globalization of Retail Capital: Themes for Economic Geography ; SECTION 7: REMAKING THE CORPORATION ; 16. The Management of Time and Space ; 17. Corporate Form and Spatial Form ; PART IV. THE GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION ; SECTION 8: NATIONAL AND LOCALIZED LEARNING ; 18. National States and Economic Development: from National Systems of Production to National Systems of Knowledge Creation and Learning ; 19. Location and Innovation: The New Economic Geography of Innovation, Spillover, and Agglomeration ; 20. Restructuring and Innovation in Long Term Regional Change ; SECTION 9: DISTRICTS AND REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS ; 21. Industrial Districts: The Contributions of Marshall and Beyond ; 22. Innovation Networks, Regions, and Globalization ; PART V: LOCALITIES AND DIFFERENCE ; SECTION 10: LABOUR AND LOCALITY ; 23. Local Labour Markets: Their Nature, Performance, and Regulation ; 24. Firms, Workers, and the Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity ; SECTION 11: GENDER, RACE, AND PLACE ; 25. Feminists Rethink the Economic: The Economics of Gender/the Gender of Economics ; 26. Racial and Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas ; SECTION 12: COMMUNITIES, POLITICS, AND POWER ; 27. Elite Power, Global Forces, and the Political Economy of Global Development ; 28. Economic Geography in Practice: Local Economic Development Policy ; PART VI: GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS ; SECTION 13: ENVIRONMENT AND REGULATION ; 29. Markets and Environmental Quality ; 30. Environmental Innovation and Regulation ; SECTION 14: TRADE AND INVESTMENT BLOCS ; 31. Spontaneous Integration in Japan and East Asia: Development Crisis and Beyond ; 32. Regional Economic Integration in North America ; 33. The EU as more than a Triad Market for National Economic Spaces ; PART VII: CODA ; 34. Pandora's Box? Cultural Geographies of Economies

Reviews

'Whether scholar or student, this book is the place to come for comprehensive, critical, reflective and futuristic writing on economic geography' * Ann Markusen, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota * 'The contributors are the luminaries in the field; particularly notable is the fact that the editors have attracted leading economists in addition to the top economic geographers' * Richard Florida, Center for Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon University * 'An excellent overview of the intellectual ferment that characterizes contemporary economic geography' * Irwin Feller, Intercollege Research Program, Pennsylvania State University * Review from previous edition 'A comprehensive introduction, invaluable to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, as well as to those instructors whose teaching was based in the earlier lore' * Brian J. L. Berry, School of Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas *

The contributors are the luminaries in the field; particularly notable is the fact that the editors have attracted leading economists in addition to the top economic geographers

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