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The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, and Meric S. Gertler

With the assistance of Kate Williams

Price: £47.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925083-7
Publication date: 10 July 2003
776 pages, 28 line illus., 5 maps, 234x156 mm
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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  • ''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
  • ''An excellent overview of the intellectual ferment that characterizes contemporary economic geography'' - Irwin Feller, Intercollege Research Program, Pennsylvania State University
  • ''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
  • ''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

Description
  • The leading international reference book for economic geographers
  • Outstanding Academic Book, Choice Magazine Awards 2002
This is the most comprehensive and significant statement about the value and potential of economic geography in thirty years. More than forty leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained the recent development of economic geography, and offer stimulating insights into the emerging global economy of the twenty-first century.

The editors have outstanding reputations for original research at the boundaries of economics and geography. They have taught in leading U. S. and European universities, and have contributed to significant debates about the theory of economic geography and its applications to public policy. The handbook is devoted to the frontiers of the field, eschewing nostalgia for the past in favour of contributions relevant to the emerging global economy of the twenty-first century. From general statements about the history and evolution of the field to statements about the crucial problems of economic geography, it is concerned with the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained the recent growth of economic geography. Always provocative and challenging, it will continue to define the terms of debate for the coming decade.


Readership: Scholars and students of geography, economic geography, economics, sociology, international relations

Contents
1. Economic Geography: Transition and Growth , Gordon L Clark, Maryann Feldmann, Meric Gertler
2. Economic Geography: The Great Half Century , Allen Scott
Part I. Conceptual Perspectives
Section 1: Mapping the Territory
3. Where in the World is the 'New Economic Geography'? , Paul Krugman
4. Doing Regulation , Jamie Peck
Section 2: Analytical Frameworks
5. The New Economics of Urban and Regional Growth , Ed Glaeser
6. Geography or Economics? Conceptions of Space, Time, Interdependence, and Agency , Eric Sheppard
Part II. Global Economic Integration
Section 3: Investment and Trade
7. The Geography of International Investment , Tony Venables and Howard Shatz
8. Globalization, Localization, and Trade , Michael Storpor
Section 4: Development and Underdevelopment
9. Geography and Economic Development , John Gallup, Andrew Mellinger, and Jeffrey Sachs
10. The Great Tablecloth: Bread and Butter Politics and the Political Economy of Food and Poverty , Michael Watts
Section 5: Finance Capital
11. The Regulation of International Finance , Risto Laulajainen
12. Finance and Localities , Adam Tickell
Part III. Corporate Structure, Strategy, and Location
Section 6: Competition, Location, and Strategy
13. Locations, Clusters, and Company Strategy , Michael Porter
14. Places and Flows: Situating International Investment , Peter Dicken
15. The Globalization of Retail Capital: Themes for Economic Geography , Neil Wrigley
Section 7: Remaking the Corporation
16. The Management of Time and Space , Erica Schoenberger
17. Corporate Form and Spatial Form , David B. Audretsch
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 , Bengt-Ake Lundvall and Peter Maskell
19. Location and Innovation: The New Economic Geography of Innovation, Spillover, and Agglomeration , Maryann Feldman
20. Restructuring and Innovation in Long Term Regional Change , Cristiano Antonelli
Section 9: Districts and Regional Innovation Systems
21. Industrial Districts: The Contributions of Marshall and Beyond , Bjorn Asheim
22. Innovation Networks, Regions, and Globalization , Beat Hotz-Hart
Part V: Localities and Difference
Section 10: Labour and Locality
23. Local Labour Markets: Their Nature, Performance, and Regulation , Ron Martin
24. Firms, Workers, and the Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity , Gordon Hanson
Section 11: Gender, Race, and Place
25. Feminists Rethink the Economic: The Economics of Gender/the Gender of Economics , Linda McDowelll
26. Racial and Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas , John Kain
Section 12: Communities, Politics, and Power
27. Elite Power, Global Forces, and the Political Economy of Global Development , Eric Swyngedouw
28. Economic Geography in Practice: Local Economic Development Policy , Amy Glasmeier
Part VI: Global Transformations
Section 13: Environment and Regulation
29. Markets and Environmental Quality , R. Kerry Turner
30. Environmental Innovation and Regulation , David Angel
Section 14: Trade and Investment Blocs
31. Spontaneous Integration in Japan and East Asia: Development Crisis and Beyond , Tetsuo Abo
32. Regional Economic Integration in North America , John Holmes
33. The EU as more than a Triad Market for National Economic Spaces , Ash Amin
Part VII: Coda
34. Pandora's Box? Cultural Geographies of Economies , Nigel Thrift

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Fellow, St Peter's College, Oxford,
Maryann P. Feldman, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and
Meric S. Gertler, Goldring Professor of Canadian Studies and Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
With the assistance of Kate Williams


Links to web resources and related information
More in the same subject area:
Economic geography
Labour economics
International trade
Industry & industrial studies
Environmental economics

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