Product Description

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.

Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultural and social constitution of economic geographies, processes of globalisation and new forms of political regulation and practice. Although focusing upon 'new' economic geography, the book also illustrates the many connections with previous scholarship as scholars seek to reconstruct the traditions of political economy to understand the contemporary world.

Highlighting and illustrating contemporary developments, the book opens up discussion about the implications of the complex geographies involved. In pointing to new directions of research and debate, this major statement in state of the art economic geography demonstrates the central relevance of economic geography not only in understanding the trajectories of change but in proposing alternatives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #787149 in Books
• Published on: 1997-09-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

Economic Geography Research Group of the IBG
This is a really great book... a joy to review... 'Geography of Economies' is a substantial statement in economic geography.

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...an excellent collection...with value packed chapters..the wait has been well worth it... The authors are to be congratulated on producing what is probably the best economic geography book of the last decade. (Environment and Planning A )

This is a really great book... a joy to review... 'Geography of Economies' is a substantial statement in economic geography. (Economic Geography Research Group of the IBG )

an excellent collection....The wait ha been well worth it, as I am sure a wide audience will agree. My students have been very impressed with it, commenting that it is a ""who's who of geographers we've heard of!""....value-packed chapters....this is an excellent book which deserves to be widely read. It is invaluable for teaching purposes and will provide research students, older hands, and inter (Environment and Planning )