The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

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• ISBN 10: 0191072176
• ISBN 13: 9780191072178
• Author: Dariusz Wójcik

The first fifteen years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world economy. In addition, they have exposed the inadequacies of mainstream economics in providing answers to these challenges. This volume gathers over 50 leading scholars from around the world to offer a forward-looking perspective of economic geography to understanding the various building blocks, relationships, and trajectories in the world economy. The perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential reference for students, researchers, as well as strategists and policy makers. Building on the success of the first edition, this volume offers a radically revised, updated, and broader approach to economic geography. With the backdrop of the global financial crisis, finance is investigated in chapters on financial stability, financial innovation, global financial networks, the global map of savings and investments, and financialization. Environmental challenges are addressed in chapters on resource economies, vulnerability of regions to climate change, carbon markets, and energy transitions. Distribution and consumption feature alongside more established topics on the firm, innovation, and work. The handbook also captures the theoretical and conceptual innovations of the last fifteen years, including evolutionary economic geography and the global production networks approach. Addressing the dangers of inequality, instability, and environmental crisis head-on, the volume concludes with strategies for growth and new ways of envisioning the spatiality of economy for the future.

Table of contents:

1. Part I Grounded in Place
2. 1. Global Prospects: The Asian Century?
3. 2. Inequality in Advanced Economies
4. 3. Income Inequality and Growing Disparity: Spatial Patterns of Inequality and the Case of the USA
5. 4. The Emerging Transformation of China’s Economic Geography
6. 5. Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary India
7. 6. Crisis and Austerity in Action: Greece
8. Part II Conceptual Foundations
9. 7. Economic Growth and Economic Development: Geographical Dimensions, Definition, and Disparities
10. 8. Heterodoxy as Orthodoxy: Prolegomenon for a Geographical Political Economy
11. 9. Relational Research Design in Economic Geography
12. 10. Behaviour in Context
13. 11. Evolutionary Economic Geography
14. 12. Institutions, Geography, and Economic Life
15. Part III Innovation
16. 13. Economic Ecosystems
17. 14. How Geography Shapes—and Is Shaped by—the Internet
18. 15. Schumpeterian Customers? How Active Users Co-create Innovations
19. 16. The Geography of the Creative Industries: Theoretical Stocktaking and Empirical Illustration
20. 17. Firms in Context: Internal and External Drivers of Success
21. Part IV The Firm
22. 18. The Logic of Agglomeration
23. 19. Network Geographies and Geographical Networks: Co-dependence and Co-evolution of Multinational Enterprises and Space
24. 20. The Logic of Production Networks
25. 21. Global Sourcing of Business Processes: History, Effects, and Future Trends
26. 22. Towards New Economic Geographies of Retail Globalization
27. 23. Corporate Social Responsibility and Standards
28. Part V Work
29. 24. Pluralizing Labour Geography
30. 25. Precarious Work and Winner-Take-All Economies
31. 26. Talent, Skills, and Urban Economies
32. 27. Immigration and the Politics of Skill
33. Part VI Finance
34. 28. Finance and Financial Systems: Evolving Geographies of Crisis and Instability
35. 29. The Global Financial Networks
36. 30. Information Flows, Global Finance, and New Digital Spaces
37. 31. ‘Organic Finance’: The Incentives in Our Investment Products
38. 32. Financialization of Everyday Life
39. 33. Infrastructure and Finance
40. Part VII Resources and the Environment
41. 34. The Financialization Thesis Revisited: Commodities as an Asset Class
42. 35. Vulnerable Regions in a Changing Climate
43. 36. Carbon Markets: Resource Governance and Sustainable Valuation
44. 37. Long-run Resource Scarcity
45. 38. Reconceptualizing Resource Peripheries
46. 39. Outside Regional Paths: Constructing an Economic Geography of Energy Transitions
47. Part VIII Strategies for Development
48. 40. Green Growth
49. 41. Pursuing Equitable Economic Growth in the Global South
50. 42. Just Growth: Strategies for Growth with Equity
51. 43. Policy Through Practice: Local Communities, Self-Organization, and Policy
52. 44. Innovation Highways and the Geography of Inclusive Growth
53. 45. Shocking Aspects of Regional Development: Towards an Economic Geography

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