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2nd edition

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014

xvi, 334 stran : ilustrace (některé barevné), mapy ; 25 cm

ISBN 978-0-273-72727-9 (brožováno)

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Part 1 FOUNDATIONS // 1 Introducing economic geography 1 // 1.1 Introduction 1 // 1.2 Key themes: globalization, uneven development and place 2 // 1.3 The economy and economic geography 11 // 1.4 A political economy approach 14 // 1.5 Outline of the book 18 // 2 Approaches to economic geography 21 // 2.1 Introduction 22 // 2.2 Traditional economic geography 22 // 2.3 Spatial analysis in economic geography 25 // 2.4 The political economy approach in economic geography 28 // 2.5 Cultural and institutional approaches in economic geography 34 // 2.6 Summary 40 // 3 Shaping the capitalist economy: key actors and processes 42 // 3.1 Introduction 43 // 3.2 Capital 43 // 3.3 The labour process 51 // 3.4 Consumers and consumption 56 // 3.5 The state 61 // 3.6 Summary 63 // 4 Spaces of production and consumption 66 // 4.1 Introduction 66 // 4.2 The Industrial Revolution and the geographical expansion of capitalism 67 // vii // Contents // 4.3 The rise and fall of industrial regions 71 // 4.4 Spaces of consumption 82 // 4.5 Summary 86 // Part 2 KEY ACTORS AND PROCESSES // 5 The state and the economy 89 // 5.1 Introduction 90 // 5.2 Understanding the ’qualitative state’ 90 // 5.3 The Keynesian welfare state 93 // 5.4 The developmental state 99 // 5.5 Reinventing the state: neoliberalism, globalization and state restructuring // since 1980 103 // 5.6 Summary 116 // 6 The changing geography of the multinational corporations 118 // 6.1 Introduction 118 // 6.2 The changing geography of FDI 119 // 6.3 Understanding the emergence and development of the MNCs 121 // 6.4 How global are they? 126 // 6.5 The internationalization of services 134 // 6.6 The impact of MNCs on host regions 138 // 6.7 Summary 145 // 7 Changing geographies of work and employment 147 // 7.1 Introduction 147 // 7.2 Conceptualizing work and employment 148 // 7.3 Changing forms of employment 155 // 7.4 A crisis of trade unionism? 164 //

7.5 New labour geographies 167 // 7.6 Summary 172 // 8 Geographies of development 175 // 8.1 Introduction 176 // 8.2 The programme of development 177 // 8.3 Theories of development 181 // 8.4 Patterns of development 188 // 8.5 Resisting development: the growth of local social movements in developing // countries 191 // 8.6 Current development issues and challenges 194 // 8.7 Summary 199 // Contents // Part 3 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY // 9 The uneven geographies of finance 203 // 9.1 Introduction 203 // 9.2 The role of money 204 // 9.3 The changing geographies of money 206 // 9.4 Financial crises and cycles 213 // 9.5 The 2007-08 financial crisis and global recession 215 // 9.6 Summary 220 // 10 Commodity chains and global production networks 222 // 10.1 Introduction 222 // 10.2 The commodity chain approach 223 // 10.3 Global production networks 231 // 10.4 Globalizing regional development 237 // 10.5 Summary 241 // 11 Knowledge, creativity and regional development 244 // 11.1 Introduction 244 // 11.2 Knowledge, innovation and agglomeration 245 // 11.3 The rise of the creative classes? 254 // 11.4 Summary 262 // 12 Alternative economic geographies 264 // 12.1 Introduction 264 // 12.2 Capitalism and its alternatives 265 // 12.3 Alternative economic spaces 270 // 12.4 Alternative global norms of fairness and responsibility 278 // 12.5 Summary 281 // 13 Conclusion 284 // 13.1 Summary of key themes 284 // 13.2 Globalization and uneven development after the crisis 286 // Glossary 289 // References 306 // Index 325