Economic Geography

see also regional competitiveness
competitive strategies 187–8
concrete research 176
Confucian heritage and culture 149–50
constituencies 97
consumer, as factor of production 114
consumer desire 39
consumer services 114, 120
consumption 89
containerization 138
contestation 97
contingencies 177
convergence school 149
coordinated economies 180
core-periphery pattern 61
corporate dynamics, multi-regional
firms and 201–3
corporate interviews 98
corporate restructuring 84–5, 96
creative class 183, 247–8
creativity 217
Cronon, William 107
cultural economy, political 
economy and 52
cultural essentialism 150
cultural geography 70
cultural industries 191, 230
cultural turn 14–15, 51–2, 
53, 60, 67–9
initiation 147
as new economic geography 200
culture 53, 65–6
causal powers 68
Confucian 149–50
economy and 66, 69
financial markets and 89
spatial boundedness 153
debt, personal 221
decision-making, cognitive 
ability and 89
deconstructionism 229
defence conversion 99–100
deindustrialization 37, 115
democracy, representative 216
demographic change 241
determinism 71, 73
development 72
see also regional development; urban
development
development coalitions 182
Dicken, Peter 245
difference
commodification 222–3
geographies of 34
digitization 142
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disaggregation 235
disclosure 90
distance, death of 248
divergence school 149
divergent capitalisms 149
domestic labour 41–2
dynamic adaptive capability 168
eclectic framework of international
production 146
ecological economics 133
introductory texts 201
ecological modernization 129
economic geographers
as agents of change 1
geographical economists vs
19–20, 21
economic geography
approaches and methods 27–30
see also research methods
audiences 30
definition 22
domain 25–7
importance 230–31
minus economics 227–8
new 200, 247, 248
re-synthesis 70–2
teaching 30–1
turbulence 59
see also environmental economic
geography; Post-Cultural-Turn
Economic Geography
economic impact studies 189–90
economic landscape, dynamics of 72
economic man 28
economics
geography vs 19–20, 21
interaction with 3, 247
limitations 94
post-autistic 21
economy
culture and 66, 69
definition 52
environment and 55, 129–30
problematization 52–3
ecotopian landscapes 108
efficient markets hypothesis 86, 87, 89
embeddedness, socio-spatial 51, 147,
167, 235
embodied interactive work 38–40
empirical turn 60
empiricism
from empirics to 228
shift to theory from 235
employment
access to 28–9, 32
from quantity to quality 240
from unemployment to non-
employment 239–40
gender and 42, 235–6
as measure of economic growth 246
research 246–7
see also labour markets
end-market regulation 130
energy and materials efficiency
131, 133
entrepreneurship 246, 247
research questions 248–9
entries, of sites 201–2
environment
behaviour and 89
economy and 55, 129–30
environmental economic geography
126–34
activities 131–4
history 128–31
environmental regulation 130, 132
environmental supply chain
management 131, 132
ethnographic techniques 98
European Research Network on
Services and Space (RESER)
119, 191
European Union (EU), economic
potential realization 160
eventuation 67
evolutionary economics 168, 245, 247
evolutionary theory 51, 168–9
exits, of sites 202
external economies, localized
166–7, 169, 178
family, in Asian business 148
FDI 133, 145, 147
feminist economic geography 15–16,
34–43, 127
feminist geographers 26
feminist theory 34
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finance
geography 83–91
practice 87–8
principles 86–7, 88
research programme 88–90
finance capital 127
financial markets
culture and 89
distrust of 85
globalization and 85
flexibility, in labour markets 242
flexibility thesis 190
flexible specialization theory
105, 146–7
Fordism 14, 177
foreign direct investment (FDI)
133, 145, 147
Frameworks for Regional 
Employment and Skills Action
(FRESA) 239
GEM 247, 248
gender 16
employment and 42, 235–6
gender relations 36
geographical economics 60–5
core model see Krugman model
geographers’ reception 61–2
as new economic geography 200
geographical economists 16–17
economic geographers vs
19–20, 21
geographical industrialization 105
geography
as chorology 173, 174
as context 173
economics vs 19–20, 21
of enterprise 200
human 173, 200
hybridity 58
strengths and weaknesses of
geographical analysis 247–8
geo-historical materialism 35, 50
GIS 248
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
(GEM) 247, 248
global environmental change, 
human dimensions 129
global financial flows 90
globalization 136, 143
financial markets and 85
place politics and 229
policy implications 153
research needs 151–2
globalizing Asian capitalism
146, 148–51
research needs 152
global production networks
130, 246
global work force 137
goods, distinction from services
112–13
Google 244, 246
greening of industry 127–8, 131–3
growth
technology-led 64