The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography / Edition 1

by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, Kate Williams

Overview

The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography is the single most important statement of the scope and status of the vibrant interdisciplinary field of economic geography. It brings together more than 40 leading economists and geographers from around the world. From general statements about the history and evolution of the field to statements about the crucial problems of economic geography, the volume is preoccupied with the rival theories and perspectives that have sustained its recent growth. The volume is also focused upon linkages, including those between the global and the local, between industry location and trade, and between corporate strategy and market structure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199250837
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/25/2003
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	776
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.10(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

St Peter's College, Oxford

Johns Hopkins University

University of Toronto

Table of 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

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"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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