The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography
( Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography )
Publication series ：Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
Author： Trevor J. Barnes
Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9781444362367
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781119250647
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781444336801
Subject： F119.9 world economic geography
Language： ENG
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Description
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a prestigious editorial team, with contributions from an international cast of prominent scholars.
- Offers a fully revised, expanded, and up-to-date overview, following the successful and highly regarded Companion to Economic Geography published by Blackwell a decade earlier, providing a comprehensive assessment of the field
- Takes a prospective as well as retrospective look at the field, reviewing recent developments, recurrent challenges, and emerging agendas
- Incorporates diverse perspectives (in terms of specialty, demography and geography) of up and coming scholars, going beyond a focus on Anglo-American research
- Encourages authors and researchers to engage with and contextualize their situated perspectives
- Explores areas of overlap, dialogues, and (potential) engagement between economic geography and cognate disciplines
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