Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Detailed Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
Part I Conceptual Foundations
Chapter 1 Geography: How do we think spatially?
1.1 Introduction: Message in a Bottle
1.2 Bottled Water: AÂ Contentious Commodity
1.3 Location and Patterns in Space
1.4 The Uniqueness of Place
1.5 Connecting Across Space Through Networks
1.6 Defining and Controlling Space Through Territory
1.7 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 2 The Economy: What does it mean?
2.1 Introduction
2.2 What âCountsâ as the Economy?
2.3 A Brief History of âthe Economyâ
2.4 Basic Economic Processes
2.5 From Economics to Economic Geography
2.6 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Further learning resources
References
Chapter 3 Dynamics of Capitalism: Why is economic growth so uneven?
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Uneven Development â Naturally!
3.3 Fundamentals of the Capitalist System
3.4 The Spaces and Scales of Uneven Geographical Development
3.5 Can Places and Regions Chart Their Own Futures?
3.6 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 4 Networks: How is the world economy interconnected?
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Missing Relations Between Producers and Consumers?
4.3 Production Networks: Connecting Distant Places and Economies
4.4 Bringing Commodities Together: The Logistics Revolution
4.5 Where Does a Production Network End? From Waste to Commodities Again
4.6 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Part II Key Economic Actors
Chapter 5 Transnational Corporations: How do they keep it all together?
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Myth of Being Everywhere, Effortlessly
5.3 The Changing Organization of TNCs
5.4 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 1 â Intra-firm Relationships
5.5 Organizing Transnational Economic Activities 2 â Inter-firm Relationships
5.6 The Risks of Global Presence
5.7 Summary
Notes on the references
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 6 Labour: Are migrant workers the new normal?
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Are Migrants the Problem?
6.3 Territorial Power and Migrant Types
6.4 Migrant Labour and Places of Settlement
6.5 Migrant Labour and Places of Origin
6.6 Organizing Migrant Labour
6.7 The Migration Industry
6.8 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 7 Consumers: Who decides what we buy?
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Towards Viewing Consumption as a Sociocultural Process
7.3 The Shifting Spatial Patterns of Retailing
7.4 Uneven Geographies of Consumption
7.5 Consuming Places: Travel and Tourism
7.6 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 8 Finance: How has capital become so powerful?
8.1 Introduction
8.2 How is the Real Economy Financed?
8.3 Deregulation and the Rise of Global Finance
8.4 Putting Global Finance in Its Place
8.5 Financialization: Circulating Global Capital
8.6 A Different Kind of Finance?
8.7 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Part III Governing the Economy
Chapter 9 States: Who runs the economy?
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Neo-liberal Globalization and the End of the State?
9.3 The State as the Architect of the National Economy
9.4 Varieties of Capitalisms and States
9.5 Graduated Sovereignty and the State
9.6 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 10 International Institutions: How do they govern and foster global development?
10.1 Introduction
10.2 A Market Mechanism for the âGlobal Southâ?
10.3 Governing the Global Economy
10.4 Fostering Development in the Global South
10.5 Bottom-Up? The Rise of Community-Based Development
10.6 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 11 Environment: Does global climate change change everything?
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Climate Complacency
11.3 Causes and Sources of Climate Change
11.4 The Impacts and Costs of Climate Change
11.5 Regulating Emissions
11.6 Geographies of the Green Economy
11.7 Should this Change Everything?
11.8 Summary
Notes on references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Part IV Social and Cultural Dimensions
Chapter 12 Clusters: Why does proximity matter?
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Industrial Location Theory
12.3 Towards a Typology of Clusters?
12.4 Binding Clusters Together: Agglomeration Economies
12.5 Untraded Interdependencies and Regional Cultures of Production
12.6 A Dynamic Approach to Clusters
12.7 Can Clusters Be Temporary?
12.8 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 13 Identities: Are economies gendered and racialized?
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Seeing Gender and Race in the Economy
13.3 Uneven Geographies of Gender and Work
13.4 Gender, Race, and the Labour Market
13.5 Identity and the Workplace
13.6 Ethnic Clusters and Networks
13.7 Intersecting Identities
13.8 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Chapter 14 Alternatives: Can we create diverse economies?
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Beyond a âCapitalocentricâ View of the Economy
14.3 Alternative Markets
14.4 Alternative Enterprises
14.5 Alternative Working
14.6 Alternative Property
14.7 The Limits to Diverse Economies?
14.8 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Part V Conclusion
Chapter 15 Economic Geography: Intellectual journeys and future horizons
15.1 Introduction
15.2 A Changing Field
15.3 A Changing World
15.4 Summary
Notes on the references
Sample essay questions
Resources for further learning
References
Index
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