Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction

Neil M. Coe; Philip F. Kelly; Henry W.C. Yeung

ISBN 10: 1405132159 / ISBN 13: 9781405132152

Published by Blackwell Publishing, 2007

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Oversized hardcover, 2010 reprint of the 1st edition, printed in the USA; xxvi + 426 pages, b&w images in text, NOT ex-library. A straightened corner crease pp 7-16, a gentle crease to the side edge of a portion of leaves; a price/barcode sticker inside the rear board. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: I. Conceptual Foundations 1 Geographical Approach to the Economy [Introduction; Poverty and Economics: Explaining What Went Wrong; Geographical Perspectives on the Economy; A World of Difference: From Masochi to Manhattan; Overview of the Book] 2 Economic Discourse: Does 'the Economy' Really Exist? [Taken-for-granted Economy; Brief History of 'the Economy'; Expanding the Economy beyond the Economic; Representing Economic Processes; Summary]; II. Dynamics of Economic Space 3 Uneven Development: Why is Economic Growth and Development so Uneven? [Uneven Development: Naturally!; Marxian Approaches: Conceptualizing Value and Structure; Fundamentals of Capitalism; Contradictions of Capitalism; Placing and Scaling Capitalism; Putting People in the System; Going beyond Capitalism] 4 Commodity Chains: Where Does Your Breakfast Come From? [Capitalism, Commodities and Consumers; Linking Producers and Consumers: Commodity Chain Approach; Re-regulating Commodity Chains: The World of Standards; Limits to Ethical Intervention?] 5 Technology and Agglomeration: Does Technology Eradicate Distance? [Rise of 'Placeless' Production?; Understanding Technological Changes and Their Geographical Impacts; Proximity Matters: Traded and Untraded Interdependencies within Clusters; Neither Here Nor There: Thinking Relationally] 6 Environment/Economy: Can Nature Be a Commodity? [How Is Nature Counted in Economic Thought?; Incorporating Nature, Commodification, Ownership and Marketization; Valuing Nature: Commodification of Environmental Degradation; Bringing Nature to Life]; III. Actors in Economic Space 7 The State: Who Controls the Economy: Firms or Governments? ['Globalization Excuse' and the End of the Nation-state?; Functions of the State (in Relation to the Economy): Long Live the State!; Types of States Today; Reconfiguring the State; Beyond the State?] 8 Transnational Corporation: How Does the Global Firm Keep It All Together? [Myth of Being Everywhere, Effortlessly; Revisiting Chains and Networks: Basic Building Blocks of TNCs; Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 1 & 2: Intra-firm & Inter-firm Relationships; Limits to Global Reach?] 9 Labour Power: Can Workers Shape Economic Geographies? [Global Capital, Local Labour?; Geographies of Labour: Working under Pressure; Labour Geographies: Workers as an Agent of Change; Beyond Capital vs Labour: Towards Alternative Ways of Working?] 10 Consumption: Is the Customer Always Right? [Consumption Process; Changing Geographies of Retailing; Changing Spaces of Consumption; Consumption, Place and Identity]; IV. Socializing Economic Life 11 Culture and the Firm: Do Countries and Companies Have Economic Cultures? [Firms Are the Same Everywhere, or Are They?; Fragmenting the Firm: Corporate Cultures and Discourses; National Business Systems; Regional Cultures; Multiple Cultures, Multiple Scales] 12 Gendered Economic Geographies: Does Gender Shape Economic Lives? [Seeing Gender in the Economy; From Private to Public Space: Women Entering the Workforce; Gendering Jobs and Workplaces; Home, Work and Space in the Labour Market; Towards a Feminist Economic Geography?] 13 Ethnic Economies: Do Cultures Have Economies? ['Colour-blind' Economics; Ethnic Sorting in the Workforce; Ethnic Businesses and Clusters; Economic Geographies of Transnationalism; Limits to Ethnicity]; Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405132159
• ISBN 13: 9781405132152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

Economic Geography is a comprehensive introduction to this growing field, providing students with a vibrant and distinctive geographical insight into the economy. Contrasts a distinctively geographical approach with popular conceptions and assumptions in economics and management studies Debates a wide range of topics including economic discourses, uneven development, commodity chains, technology and agglomeration, the commodification of nature, states, transnational corporations, labour, consumption, economic cultures, gender, and ethnic economies Is richly illustrated with examples, vignettes, and case studies drawn from a variety of sectors around the world Is written in a clear, engaging and lively style Includes a rich array of photos, figures, text boxes, sample essay questions and annotated lists of further reading

About the Author

Neil M. Coe is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Manchester.

Philip F. Kelly is Associate Professor of Geography at York University, Canada.

Henry W.C. Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore.