TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coe,Neil M.
AU  - Kelly,Philip F.
AU  - Yeung,Henry Wai-Chung
TI  - Economic geography: a contemporary introduction 
SN  - 9780470943380 (pbk.) :
AV  - HF1025 .C73 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Economic geography
KW  - Economic development
KW  - SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book offers information and resources for users, including several new  and enhanced chapters and images. It explores the ways in which  economic relationships across space are established and maintained and the blurred line between economic processes and the  social and cultural contexts in which they are embedded. The authors look at the role of social interaction iPART ONE: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS 1. Thinking geographically 2. The economy: what does it mean? 3. Capitalism in motion: why is economic growth so uneven? PART TWO: MAKING THE (SPATIAL) ECONOMY 4. The state: who runs the economy? 5. Environment/economy: can nature be a commodity? 6. Labour power: can workers shape economic geographies? 7. Making money: why has finance become so powerful? PART THREE: ORGANIZING ECONOMIC SPACE 8. Commodity chains: where does your breakfast come from? 9. Technological change: is the world getting smaller? 10. The transnational corporation: how does the global firm keep it all together? 11. Spaces of sale: how and where do we shop? PART FOUR: PEOPLE, IDENTITIES, AND ECONOMIC LIFE 12. Clusters: why do proximity and place matter? 13. Gendered economies: does gender shape economic lives? 14. Ethnic economies: do cultures have economies? 15. Consumption: you are what you buy? PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 16. Economic Geography: Intellectual Journeys and Future Horizonsn forming economic clusters, the  role of gender and ethnicity in shaping economic processes, and finally  the ways in which consumption processes are implicated in the  identities of places and people"--
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