Economic Geography

Ann Markusen
is Professor and Director of the Project on Regional and
Industrial Economics at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of
Minnesota. Her books include From Defense to Development; Second Tier Cities;
Arming the Future; Trading Industries, Trading Regions; Regions: the Economics
and Politics of Territory; and Profit Cycles, Oligopoly and Regional Development.
She has served as President of the North American Regional Science Association,
Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Chair of the Committee
on Science, Engineering and Public Policy of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Ron Martin
is Professor of Economic Geography in the University of
Cambridge, UK. His research interests include the geographies of economic
growth, finance, and labour; and the application of different schools of economic
thought to economic geography. He has published 25 books and more than 
150 papers on these and related themes. His work has a strong commitment to
public relevance and policy. He has edited Transactions of the Institute of British
Geographers, and Regional Studies; and is presently an editor on the Cambridge
Journal of Economics and on the Journal of Economic Geography. Ron is an
Academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the
British Academy.
Allen J. Scott
is Professor of Urban Planning and holds a joint appointment in
the Department of Policy Studies and the Department of Geography at UCLA.
He is the Director of the Center for Globalization and Policy Research in the
School of Public Policy and Social Research. Dr Scott’s recent research and writing
have been focused on issues of industrialization, urban and regional growth, and
globalization. Dr Scott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986–7, and
was given the Honors Award of the Association of American Geographers in
1987. In 1999 he was elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.
Eric Sheppard
is Professor of Geography, with adjunct appointments in 
the Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change and American Studies, at the
University of Minnesota. He has co-authored The Capitalist Space Economy (with
T. J. Barnes, 1990), A World of Difference (with P. W. Porter, 1998), co-edited 
A Companion to Economic Geography (with T. J. Barnes, 2000) and Scale and
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Geographic Inquiry (with R. B. McMaster, 2004), and published 90 refereed 
articles and book chapters. Current research interests include the spatiality of 
capitalism and globalization, international trade, environmental justice, critical GIS,
and contestations of neoliberal urbanization.