Economy : Critical Essays in Human Geography (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; Part I Conceptual Developments in Economic Geography: A perspective of economic geography, Allen J. Scott; Paul Krugman's geographical economics and its implications for regional development theory: a critical assessment, Ron Martin and Peter Sunley; A institutionalist perspective on regional economic development, Ash Amin; Toward a relational economic geography, Harald Bathelt and Johannes Gluckler; Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits, Ray Hudson; Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography, Ron A. Boschma and Koen Frenken. Part II The Localization of Global Economic Space: Neo-Marshallian nodes in global networks, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift; Sticky places in slippery space: a typology of industrial districts, Ann Markusen; 'Globalizing' regional development: a global production networks perspective, Neil M. Coe, Martin Hess, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Peter Dicken and Jeffrey Henderson; Theorizing economic geographies of Asia, Henry Wai-chung Yeung and George C.S. Lin. Part III Firms, Workers and Places: Sunk costs: a framework for economic geography, Gordon L. Clark and Neil Wrigley; Firms in territories: a relational perspective, Peter Dicken and Anders Malmberg; Labor and agglomeration: control and flexibility in local labor markets, Jamie Peck; The economic geography of talent, Richard Florida. Part IV Culture, Technology and the Geographies of Knowledge: Telecommunications and the changing geographies of knowledge transmission in the late-20th century, Barney Warf; The cultural economy: geography and the creative field, Allen J. Scott; 'Being there': proximity, organization and culture in the development and adoption of advance manufacturing technologies, Meric S. Gertler; Towards a knowledge-based theory of the geographical cluster, Peter Maskell; The evolution of technologies in time and space: from national and regional to spatial innovation sy