8 The education of an economic geographer 103
RICHARD WALKER
9 On services and economic geography 112
PETER W. DANIELS
10 Towards an environmental economic geography 126
DAVID P. ANGEL
11 Digitizing services: what stays where and why 136
MARTIN KENNEY AND RAFIQ DOSSANI
12 Globalizing Asian capitalisms: 145
an economic-geographical perspective HENRY WAI-CHUNG YEUNG
SECTION III Regional competitive advantage: industrial change, 157
human capital and public policy 13 Economic geography and the new discourse of 159
regional competitiveness RON MARTIN
14 Economic geography as (regional) contexts 173
BJØRN T. ASHEIM
15 Approaching research methods in economic geography 186
WILLIAM B. BEYERS
16 Manufacturing, corporate dynamics, and regional 197
economic change H. DOUG WATTS
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17 On the intersection of policy and economic geography: 208
selective engagement, partial acceptance, and missed opportunities AMY K. GLASMEIER
18 The new imperial geography 221
JOHN LOVERING
19 Labour market geographies: employment and 233
non-employment ANNE GREEN
20 Technology, knowledge, and jobs 244
EDWARD J. MALECKI
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International Advisory Board Bjorn Asheim , University of Oslo and University of Lund
Trevor Barnes , University of British Columbia
Anthony Bebbington , University of Manchester