Economic geography :

Abstract

This book takes the form of a series of linked chapters on topical issues and contemporary debates that draw upon, and showcase, some of the best research in Economic Geography. These issues are drawn from contemporary economic life, which is increasingly constituted at a global scale – from uneven development, space-shrinking technologies, and environmental degradation, to powerful global corporations, organized labour, and ethnic economies. We see each of these as issues rather than just phenomena, i.e. they are processes to be debated rather than factual realities to be described. Each chapter thus seeks to answer a significant contemporary question that a curious and well-informed reader might reasonably be expected to ask about the world around them. This, then, is not a conventional text: our aim is to develop well-grounded arguments from an economic geography perspective, not necessarily to present simplifications of multiple viewpoints or collections of facts and data.