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Names: Barnes, Trevor J., author. | Christophers, Brett, 1971– author.
Title: Economic geography : a critical introduction / by Trevor Barnes and Brett Christophers.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2018. | Series: Critical Introductions to Geography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017030688 (print) | LCCN 2017042733 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118874301 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118874288 (epub) | ISBN 9781118874332 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118874325 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Economic geography.
Classification: LCC HF1025 (ebook) | LCC HF1025 .B3328 2018 (print) | DDC 330.9–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017030688
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At Wiley‐Blackwell, we would like to thank Justin Vaughan for his support for this project from the start and for his patience during the extended writing process. We also thank Wiley‐Blackwell’s production team that included Sarah Keegan, Liz Wingett, and Joe White for seeing the book through to fruition. We are enormously appreciative of the skills of the picture editor, Kitty Bocking, as well as the copy‐editor, Giles Flitney, who often understood better what we meant than we did. We are further grateful to those who have read and commented on draft chapters for us – all the chapters, in the case of series editor J.P. Jones, and individual chapters in the case of Leigh Johnson, Jamie Peck, and Marion Werner. Needless to say, all errors of fact or interpretation are our responsibility. In addition, Brett Christophers would like to thank his family (Agneta, Elliot, Oliver, and Emilia) for allowing the book to encroach on two successive summers in Dalstuga. Trevor J. Barnes would like to thank Joan Seidl for dealing with the vexing issues around copyright permission for figures and photos, and for much, much more. He would also like to dedicate the book to the now thousands of undergraduate students who have taken his economic geography course at the University of British Columbia over the past 35 years.
1.1 | Globalization ancient style? |
1.2 | The Ideal‐X loading the first ever containers (“the box”) at the Newark, NJ. |
1.3 | Deindustrialization in the Global North. |
1.4 | The Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan, 1927. |
1.5 | The death of geography under the steamroller of globalization? |
2.1 | Is schooling an “economic” service? |
2.2 | What is economic geography? |
3.1 | George G. Chisholm (1850–1930). |
3.2 | “India: Density of population and products.” |
3.3 | Ellsworth Huntington’s maps of “civilization” and “climatic energy.” |
3.4 | Massey’s spatial division of labor thesis. |
3.5 | Massey’s rounds of accumulation. |
3.6 | The reciprocal relationship between investment and geography. |
3.7 | Gibson‐Graham’s iceberg model of the economy. |
4.1 | The archipelago of heterodox economics. |
5.1 | Economic geography’s theory‐cultures: three different cuts. |
5.2 | Theories in economic geography. |
6.1 | Graduated isolines of the potential of wheat production in the United States (1940–1949). |
6.2 | A GIS‐based 3‐D density surface map of daily non‐employment activities carried out by women employed full‐time. |
7.1 | A black box. |
7.2 | Homepage of the Summer Institute in Economic Geography. |
7.3 | Peter Haggett’s Locational Analysis in Human Geography. |
7.4 | IBM 650 computer at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. |
8.1 | Global merchandise and services exports ($US billions, current prices). |
9.1 | Key Boeing financial indicators, 2013–2015. |
10.1 | Urbanization and industrialization in Britain. |
10.2 | The role of cities varies from region to region. |
10.3 | Components of inter‐urban competition. |
10.4 | Share of construction in total economic value added. |
11.1 | Fallible capitalism. |
12.1 | Joseph Schumpeter’s conception of the “gales of creative destruction.” |
12.2 | Labor and machines in an eighteenth‐century pin factory. |
12.3 | Detroit industry mural: Man and Machine by Diego Rivera. |
12.4 | The purpose of the scientific management of labor (Taylorism). |
12.5 | Tech‐tonic shifts: Valley of the Kings. Tech companies in Silicon Valley worth $1 billion or more. |
12.6 | Richard Florida’s theory of hi‐tech talent and the preference for “cool” places. |
13.1 | Maps of majority Clinton and Trump counties for the US lower 48 states for the November 2016 US Presidential election. |