Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction (Critical Introductions to Geography) - Softcover

Barnes, Trevor J.; Christophers, Brett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118874323 ISBN 13: 9781118874325

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018

Synopsis

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline, and they make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalized world.

Economic Geography addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of the discipline, and describes its “communities of practice” and relations to related fields including economics and sociology. Numerous illustrative examples explore how economic geographers examine the world and how and why the discipline takes the forms it does, demonstrating the critical value of economic geography to making sense of globalization, uneven development, money and finance, urbanization, environmental change, and industrial and technological transformation.

Engaging and thought-provoking, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction is the ideal resource for students studying across a range of subject areas, as well as the general reader with an interest in world affairs and economics. 

About this title

About the Author

Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of more than a 150 journal articles and edited chapters, and the author or editor of a dozen books.

Brett Christophers is Professor of Geography at Uppsala University and the author of four previous books including The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law (2016) and Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism (2013).

From the Back Cover

"Two of economic geography's most gifted practitioners here offer an analysis of their sub-discipline full of insight, verve, and attitude. Their wide and deep understanding of economic geography as a heterodox, contested field of knowledge allows them to show there is no one 'right' way to understand its substantive foci, such as international trade or regional economic decline."
Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong, Australia

"In an era when the term economic geography is bandied about, evacuated of any clear meaning, this book provides students with a trenchant introduction to this academic discipline, and thus to how its practitioners make sense of major features of our contemporary world. Path-breaking, ecumenical, acknowledging warts and exhuming bodies, and insightful about topics ranging from global finance to Alaska pollock, it engagingly narrates the meaning of contemporary Anglophone critical economic geography."
Eric Sheppard, Humboldt Chair and Professor of Geography, UCLA, USA

"This is a new and remarkably refreshing way of writing an economic geography textbook. It starts with 'the basics,' but not the usual basics. Instead, there is a discussion of critical thinking and another section that looks at 'what is theory and what does it do.' Why didn't anyone think of this before? It will be a huge help to students and professors alike. I learned a lot from it."
Erica Schoenberger, Professor of Geography, John Hopkins University, USA

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline, and they make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalized world.

Economic Geography addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of the discipline, and describes its "communities of practice" and relations to related fields including economics and sociology. Numerous illustrative examples explore how economic geographers examine the world and how and why the discipline takes the forms it does, demonstrating the critical value of economic geography to making sense of globalization, uneven development, money and finance, urbanization, environmental change, and industrial and technological transformation.

Engaging and thought-provoking, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction is the ideal resource for students studying across a range of subject areas, as well as the general reader with an interest in world affairs and economics.

From the Inside Flap

"Two of economic geography's most gifted practitioners here offer an analysis of their sub-discipline full of insight, verve, and attitude. Their wide and deep understanding of economic geography as a heterodox, contested field of knowledge allows them to show there is no one 'right' way to understand its substantive foci, such as international trade or regional economic decline."
Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong, Australia

"In an era when the term economic geography is bandied about, evacuated of any clear meaning, this book provides students with a trenchant introduction to this academic discipline, and thus to how its practitioners make sense of major features of our contemporary world. Path-breaking, ecumenical, acknowledging warts and exhuming bodies, and insightful about topics ranging from global finance to Alaska pollock, it engagingly narrates the meaning of contemporary Anglophone critical economic geography."
Eric Sheppard, Humboldt Chair and Professor of Geography, UCLA, USA

"This is a new and remarkably refreshing way of writing an economic geography textbook. It starts with 'the basics,' but not the usual basics. Instead, there is a discussion of critical thinking and another section that looks at 'what is theory and what does it do.' Why didn't anyone think of this before? It will be a huge help to students and professors alike. I learned a lot from it."
Erica Schoenberger, Professor of Geography, John Hopkins University, USA

This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline, and they make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalized world.

Economic Geography addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of the discipline, and describes its "communities of practice" and relations to related fields including economics and sociology. Numerous illustrative examples explore how economic geographers examine the world and how and why the discipline takes the forms it does, demonstrating the critical value of economic geography to making sense of globalization, uneven development, money and finance, urbanization, environmental change, and industrial and technological transformation.

Engaging and thought-provoking, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction is the ideal resource for students studying across a range of subject areas, as well as the general reader with an interest in world affairs and economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118874323
• ISBN 13: 9781118874325
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336