Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction

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Edité par Blackwell Publishing, 2007

1405132159 / 9781405132152

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Oversized hardcover, 2010 reprint of the 1st edition, printed in the USA; xxvi + 426 pages, b&w images in text, NOT ex-library. A straightened corner crease pp 7-16, a gentle crease to the side edge of a portion of leaves; a price/barcode sticker inside the rear board. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: I. Conceptual Foundations 1 Geographical Approach to the Economy [Introduction; Poverty and Economics: Explaining What Went Wrong; Geographical Perspectives on the Economy; A World of Difference: From Masochi to Manhattan; Overview of the Book] 2 Economic Discourse: Does 'the Economy' Really Exist? [Taken-for-granted Economy; Brief History of 'the Economy'; Expanding the Economy beyond the Economic; Representing Economic Processes; Summary]; II. Dynamics of Economic Space 3 Uneven Development: Why is Economic Growth and Development so Uneven? [Uneven Development: Naturally!; Marxian Approaches: Conceptualizing Value and Structure; Fundamentals of Capitalism; Contradictions of Capitalism; Placing and Scaling Capitalism; Putting People in the System; Going beyond Capitalism] 4 Commodity Chains: Where Does Your Breakfast Come From? [Capitalism, Commodities and Consumers; Linking Producers and Consumers: Commodity Chain Approach; Re-regulating Commodity Chains: The World of Standards; Limits to Ethical Intervention?] 5 Technology and Agglomeration: Does Technology Eradicate Distance? [Rise of 'Placeless' Production?; Understanding Technological Changes and Their Geographical Impacts; Proximity Matters: Traded and Untraded Interdependencies within Clusters; Neither Here Nor There: Thinking Relationally] 6 Environment/Economy: Can Nature Be a Commodity? [How Is Nature Counted in Economic Thought?; Incorporating Nature, Commodification, Ownership and Marketization; Valuing Nature: Commodification of Environmental Degradation; Bringing Nature to Life]; III. Actors in Economic Space 7 The State: Who Controls the Economy: Firms or Governments? ['Globalization Excuse' and the End of the Nation-state?; Functions of the State (in Relation to the Economy): Long Live the State!; Types of States Today; Reconfiguring the State; Beyond the State?] 8 Transnational Corporation: How Does the Global Firm Keep It All Together? [Myth of Being Everywhere, Effortlessly; Revisiting Chains and Networks: Basic Building Blocks of TNCs; Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 1 & 2: Intra-firm & Inter-firm Relationships; Limits to Global Reach?] 9 Labour Power: Can Workers Shape Economic Geographies? [Global Capital, Local Labour?; Geographies of Labour: Working under Pressure; Labour Geographies: Workers as an Agent of Change; Beyond Capital vs Labour: Towards Alternative Ways of Working?] 10 Consumption: Is the Customer Always Right? [Consumption Process; Changing Geographies of Retailing; Changing Spaces of Consumption; Consumption, Place and Identity]; IV. Socializing Economic Life 11 Culture and the Firm: Do Countries and Companies Have Economic Cultures? [Firms Are the Same Everywhere, or Are They?; Fragmenting the Firm: Corporate Cultures and Discourses; National Business Systems; Regional Cultures; Multiple Cultures, Multiple Scales] 12 Gendered Economic Geographies: Does Gender Shape Economic Lives? [Seeing Gender in the Economy; From Private to Public Space: Women Entering the Workforce; Gendering Jobs and Workplaces; Home, Work and Space in the Labour Market; Towards a Feminist Economic Geography?] 13 Ethnic Economies: Do Cultures Have Economies? ['Colour-blind' Economics; Ethnic Sorting in the Workforce; Ethnic Businesses and Clusters; Economic Geographies of Transnationalism; Limits to Ethnicity]; Index.…

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Titre
Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction
Auteur
Neil M. Coe; Philip F. Kelly; Henry W.C. Yeung
Éditeur
Blackwell Publishing
Année de publication
2007
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Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1405132159
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781405132152
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1st Edition

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