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Economic Geography : A Contemporary Introduction

ISBN: 9780470943380 | 0470943386
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pub. Date: 1/4/2013

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
The 2nd edition of Coe's Economic Geography is modified to provide a more information and resources for users including several new and enhanced chapters and images. For example, a Conceptual Foundations section introduces the basic building blocks of geographical analysis and understanding of the economy. These are also brought together in a geographical understanding of the dynamics of the capitalist system. Making the Spatial Economy introduces the inputs and actors, besides capitalists, who make the system work: the state, nature, labour an... MORE

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS

1. Thinking geographically

2. The economy: what does it mean?

3. Capitalism in motion: why is economic growth so uneven?

PART TWO: MAKING THE (SPATIAL) ECONOMY

4. The state: who runs the economy?

5. Environment/economy: can nature be a commodity?

6. Labour power: can workers shape economic geographies?

7. Making money: why has finance become so powerful?

PART THREE: ORGANIZING ECONOMIC SPACE

8. Commodity chains: where does your b... MORE

9. Technological change: is the world getting smaller?

10. The transnational corporation: how does the global firm keep it all together?

11. Spaces of sale: how and where do we shop?

PART FOUR: PEOPLE, IDENTITIES, AND ECONOMIC LIFE

12. Clusters: why do proximity and place matter?

13. Gendered economies: does gender shape economic lives?

14. Ethnic economies: do cultures have economies?

15. Consumption: you are what you buy?

16. Economic Geography: Intellectual Journeys and Future Horizons

Neil M. Coe is Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore.

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

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



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