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Economic Geography

A Critical Introduction
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Economic Geography is a vibrant introduction to the dynamic discipline of economic geography. The authors define the field and highlight its crucial role in understanding global interconnections, movements, and trends. The book explores key theories, methods, and the discipline's links to economics and sociology, using numerous examples to illustrate how economic geography helps explain globalisation, uneven development, finance, urbanisation, environmental changes, and industrial transformations.
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Ideal for students across various subjects and general readers interested in world affairs and economics, this accessible introduction provides a critical understanding of economic geography and its relevance to contemporary global issues.

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This volume in the celebrated Critical Introductions to Geography series introduces readers to the vibrant discipline of economic geography. The authors provide an original definition of the discipline and make a strong case for its vital importance in understanding the dynamic interconnections, movements, and emerging trends shaping our globalised world.

Economic Geography addresses the key theories and methods that form the basis of the discipline, and describes its "communities of practice" and relations to related fields including economics and sociology. Numerous illustrative examples explore how economic geographers examine the world and how and why the discipline takes the forms it does, demonstrating the critical value of economic geography to making sense of globalisation, uneven development, money and finance, urbanisation, environmental change, and industrial and technological transformation.

Engaging and thought-provoking, Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction is the ideal resource for students studying across a range of subject areas, as well as the general reader with an interest in world affairs and economics.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118874325

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 242.0mm

Weight: 658g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of more than a 150 journal articles and edited chapters, and the author or editor of a dozen books.

Brett Christophers is Professor of Geography at Uppsala University and the author of four previous books including The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law (2016) and Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism (2013).

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