Economic Geography

Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
(PhD, University of Manchester) is Professor of
Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University 
of Singapore. He is the sole author of three monographs and editor/co-editor
of another four books. He has over 65 research papers published in interna-
tionally refereed journals and 20 chapters in books. He co-edits three journals
(Environment and Planning A, Economic Geography, and Review of International
Political Economy) and is Asia-Pacific Editor of Global Networks, and Business
Manager of Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. He sits on the editorial
boards of another seven international journals, including Asia Pacific Journal of
Management, European Urban and Regional Studies, and Journal of Economic
Geography.
Richard Walker
is Professor and past Chair of Geography at the University of
California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1975. He has written scores 
of articles on diverse topics in economic, urban, and environmental geography.
He is author, with Michael Storper, of The Capitalist Imperative: Territory,
Technology and Industrial Growth (Blackwell, 1989) and, with Andrew Sayer, of
The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor (Blackwell, 1992).
Recently, his focus has been on the peculiarities of California – one of the most
important economic, political and cultural hearths of capitalism. His latest book
is The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness (New Press, 2004)
and another is forthcoming, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San
Francisco Bay Area (University of Washington Press, 2006). A third volume, Bay
City: The Urbanization of the San Francisco Bay Area, is nearly complete.
H. Doug Watts
is a Reader in Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has
written extensively on the behaviour of multi-locational firms and has had a
special interest in plant closures. This research has been supplemented by the analy-
sis of the behaviour of small firms in clusters of traditional industries. He is the author
of The Large Industrial Enterprise (Croom Helm, 1979), The Branch Plant
Economy (Longman, 1981) and Industrial Geography (Longman, 1987). He has
published in leading journals including Regional Studies, Urban Studies,
Environment and Planning A and Progress in Human Geography. His main teach-
ing interests have been the economic geography of advanced economies and, 
especially, industrial geography.
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