Key Concepts in Economic Geography

by Yuko Aoyama

• ISBN13: 9781847878953
• ISBN10: 1847878954
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-08
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

Key Concepts in Economic Geography is a new kind of textbook that forms part of an innovative set of companion texts for the human geography sub-disciplines. Organized around 20 short essays, this book provides a cutting edge introduction to the central concepts that define contemporary research in economic geography.

Author Biography

Yuko Aoyama, James T. Murphy, and Susan Hanson are all based at Clark University, USA.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Key Agents in Economic Geography	p. 13
Labour	p. 15
Firm	p. 23
State	p. 31
Key Drivers of Economic Change	p. 39
Innovation	p. 41
Entrepreneurship	p. 49
Accessibility	p. 59
Industries and Regions in Economic Change	p. 71
Industrial Location	p. 75
Industrial Clusters	p. 85
Regional Disparity	p. 93
Post-Fordism	p. 103
Global Economic Geographies	p. 111
Core-Periphery	p. 115
Globalization	p. 122
Circuits of Capital	p. 129
Global Value Chains	p. 137
Socio-Cultural Contexts of Economic Change	p. 145
Culture	p. 149
Gender	p. 158
Institutions	p. 167
Embeddedness	p. 174
Networks	p. 181
Emerging Themes in Economic Geography	p. 189
Knowledge Economy	p. 191
Financialization	p. 199
Consumption	p. 208
Sustainable Development	p. 217
References	p. 224
Index	p. 273
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