A Companion to Economic Geography [Paperback]

A Companion to Economic Geography presents students of human geography with an essential collection of original essays providing a key to understanding this important subdiscipline. The contributions are written by prominent international scholars offering a wide-ranging overview of the field.

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• Places economic geography in the wider context of geography.
  
• Contributions from leading international scholars in the field.
  
• Presents a comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible overview of all the major themes in the field.
  
• Explores key debates, controversies and questions using a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points.
  
• Charts the important work that has been done in recent years and looks forward to new developments in the global economy.

Contributors.

Figures and Tables.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: The Art of Economic Geography: Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard.

Part I: Worlds of Economic Geography:.

2. Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, 1889-1960: Trevor J. Barnes.

3. The Modeling Tradition: Paul S. Plummer.

4. The Marxian Alternative: Historical-Geographical Materialism and the Political Economy of Capitalism: Erik Swyngedouw.

5. Feminism and Economic Geography: Gendering Work and Working Gender: Ann M. Oberhauser.

6. Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography: Ron Martin.

7. Poststructural interventions: J. K. Gibson-Graham.

Part II: Realms of Production:.

8. The Geography of Production: Richard A. Walker.

9. Places of work: Jamie Peck.&llãÞ