Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Chapter 1 Why Economic Geography Is Good For You

1.1 Introduction

1.2 “May You Live in Interesting Times”: Economic Geography’s World

1.3 Being Critical: In What Sense a “Critical” Introduction to Economic Geography?

1.4 Outline of the Book

1.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

Part I Thinking Critically about Economic Geography

Chapter 2 What Is Economic Geography?

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Defining Economic Geography

2.3 The “Economic” World

2.4 Geographies of the Economic

2.5 Principal Contemporary Narratives of Economic Geography

2.6 Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 3 Inventing Economic Geography: Histories of a Discipline

3.1 Introduction

3.2 In the Beginning: Commercial Geography

3.3 Economic Regionalism

3.4 Spatial Science

3.5 Radical Economic Geography

3.6 Poststructuralism and the End of Capitalism (As We Knew It)

3.7 Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 4 Economic Geography and its Border Country

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Institutions, Disciplines, Borders, and Trading Zones

4.3 Mapping Economic Geography’s Border Country

4.4 Border Life: Three Case Studies

4.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 5 Theory and Theories in Economic Geography

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Meanings and Roles of Theory in Economic Geography

5.3 For (Critical) Theory

5.4 Theories in Economic Geography

5.5 Economic Geographic Theory

5.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 6 Method and Methodology in Economic Geography

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Method and Methodology

6.3 A History of Methods and Methodology in Economic Geography

6.4 Contemporary Methods in Economic Geography

6.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 7 Unboxing Economic Geography

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Hidden Life of a Discipline

7.3 Keeping Economic Geography Standing

7.4 Things Fall Apart

7.5 Conclusion

Notes

References

Part II Doing Critical Economic Geography

Chapter 8 Globalization and Uneven Development

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Economic Globalization: The Basics

8.3 Framing Globalization

8.4 Geographies of Actually Existing Globalization

8.5 Theorizing Globalization as Uneven Geographical Development

8.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 9 Money and Finance

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The Beginning of Geography

9.3 Place Matters

9.4 Spatial Relations of Finance

9.5 Geographies of Power

9.6 The Seductions of Finance

9.7 Geographies of Money and Finance after the Crisis

9.8 Conclusion

References

Chapter 10 Cities and Urbanization

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Cities and Economies through History

10.3 The Economy of the City

10.4 The Economy of Cities

10.5 Urban Transformation as Economy

10.6 Conclusion

References

Chapter 11 Nature and the Environment

11.1 Introduction

11.2 The Use of Nature

11.3 The Production of Nature

11.4 The Value of Nature

11.5 Conclusion

References

Chapter 12 Industrial and Technological Change

12.1 Introduction

12.2 A History of Industrial Change

12.3 The Hi-Tech Economy

12.4 Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 13 Conclusion

13.1 The Scope of Economic Geography

13.2 The Hope of Economic Geography

Notes

Index

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