A Companion to Economic Geography
Contributors: Sheppard, Eric; Wiley online library
Series: Blackwell Companions to Geography
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
ISBN-13: 9780470692721
Subjects: Economic geography
Description: A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.:.; Places economic geography in the wider context of geography.; Contributions from leading international scholars in the field.; Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field.; Explores key debates, controversies and questions using a variety of histor.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: A Companion to Economic Geography; Contents; Contributors; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography; PART I WORLDS OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; 2 Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960; 3 The Modeling Tradition; 4 The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism; 5 Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender; 6 Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography; 7 Poststructural Interventions; PART II REALMS OF PRODUCTION; 8 The Geography of Production; 9 Places of Work.; title: 10 Industrial Districts11 Competition in Space and between Places; 12 Urban and Regional Growth; 13 Geography and Technological Change; PART III RESOURCE WORLDS; 14 Resources; 15 Agriculture; 16 Political Ecology; 17 The Production of Nature; 18 Single Industry Resource Towns; PART IV SOCIAL WORLDS; 19 Family, Work and Consumption: Mapping the Borderlands of Economic Geography; 20 Concepts of Class in Contemporary Economic.