Table of Contents

1: Gordon L Clark, Maryann Feldmann, Meric Gertler: Economic Geography: Transition and Growth
2: Allen Scott: Economic Geography: The Great Half Century
Part I. Conceptual Perspectives
Section 1: Mapping the Territory
3: Paul Krugman: Where in the World is the 'New Economic Geography'?
4: Jamie Peck: Doing Regulation
Section 2: Analytical Frameworks
5: Ed Glaeser: The New Economics of Urban and Regional Growth
6: Eric Sheppard: Geography or Economics? Conceptions of Space, Time, Interdependence, and Agency
Part II. Global Economic Integration
Section 3: Investment and Trade
7: Tony Venables and Howard Shatz: The Geography of International Investment
8: Michael Storpor: Globalization, Localization, and Trade
Section 4: Development and Underdevelopment
9: John Gallup, Andrew Mellinger, and Jeffrey Sachs: Geography and Economic Development
10: Michael Watts: The Great Tablecloth: Bread and Butter Politics and the Political Economy of Food and Poverty
Section 5: Finance Capital
11: Risto Laulajainen: The Regulation of International Finance
12: Adam Tickell: Finance and Localities
Part III. Corporate Structure, Strategy, and Location
Section 6: Competition, Location, and Strategy
13: Michael Porter: Locations, Clusters, and Company Strategy
14: Peter Dicken: Places and Flows: Situating International Investment
15: Neil Wrigley: The Globalization of Retail Capital: Themes for Economic Geography
Section 7: Remaking the Corporation
16: Erica Schoenberger: The Management of Time and Space
17: David B. Audretsch: Corporate Form and Spatial Form
Part IV. The Geography of Innovation
Section 8: National and Localized Learning
18: Bengt-Ake Lundvall and Peter Maskell: National States and Economic Development: from National Systems of Production to National Systems of Knowledge Creation and Learning
19: Maryann Feldman: Location and Innovation: The New Economic Geography of Innovation, Spillover, and Agglomeration
20: Cristiano Antonelli: Restructuring and Innovation in Long Term Regional Change
Section 9: Districts and Regional Innovation Systems
21: Bjorn Asheim: Industrial Districts: The Contributions of Marshall and Beyond
22: Beat Hotz-Hart: Innovation Networks, Regions, and Globalization
Part V: Localities and Difference
Section 10: Labour and Locality
23: Ron Martin: Local Labour Markets: Their Nature, Performance, and Regulation
24: Gordon Hanson: Firms, Workers, and the Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity
Section 11: Gender, Race, and Place
25: Linda McDowelll: Feminists Rethink the Economic: The Economics of Gender/the Gender of Economics
26: John Kain: Racial and Economic Segregation in US Metropolitan Areas
Section 12: Communities, Politics, and Power
27: Eric Swyngedouw: Elite Power, Global Forces, and the Political Economy of Global Development
28: Amy Glasmeier: Economic Geography in Practice: Local Economic Development Policy
Part VI: Global Transformations
Section 13: Environment and Regulation
29: R. Kerry Turner: Markets and Environmental Quality
30: David Angel: Environmental Innovation and Regulation
Section 14: Trade and Investment Blocs
31: Tetsuo Abo: Spontaneous Integration in Japan and East Asia: Development Crisis and Beyond
32: John Holmes: Regional Economic Integration in North America
33: Ash Amin: The EU as more than a Triad Market for National Economic Spaces
Part VII: Coda
34: Nigel Thrift: Pandora's Box? Cultural Geographies of Economies

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`a state-of-the-art review of the subject at the millennium ... One of its strengths is that among these authors there are at least nine economists including Paul Krugman and Michael Porter who in recent years have made stimulating contributions to the subject ... This will be a valuable book for all advanced students of economic geography at universities and for academics in the field.'
Chris Law, Geographical Association, July 2001
`it will be a valuable curriculum companion from which students will gain a great deal, whether guided, or exploring it in their own time ... the Handbook is a valuable collection and should be purchased for academic library shelves wherever spatial analysis is performed.'
Phil Cooke, European Planning Studies, Vol.9, No.5, 2001
"As the IT revolution runs its course, the old ideas that were useful guides to understanding twentieth-century economic regionalization and trade have been supplanted by a new conceptual apparatus. The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography provides a comprehensive introduction to this apparatus that will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, as well as to those instructors whose teaching was based in the ealier lore...an
impressive, comprehensive introduction to a rapidly evolving field that is located where geography and economics intermingle." Brian J L Berry, School of Political Economy, University of Texas at Dallas
An excellent overview of the intellectual ferment that characterizes contemporary economic geography, highlighting new approaches and perspectives amid continuing debates about the degree to which economics and geography are complements or substitutes for one another. Irwin Feller, Intercollege Research Program, Pennsylvania State University
This is an excellent and much needed collection. It will make an important contribution to social science broadly, particularly geography and economics. The editors are highly regarded scholars in their own right. The contributors are the luminaries in the field; particularly notable is the fact that the editors have attracted leading economists in addition to the top economic geographers. This will make the volume truly unique and much valued. Richard Florida,
Center for Economic Development, Carnegie Mellon University
Whether scholar or student, this book is the place to come for comprehensive, critical, reflective and futuristic writing on economic geography. Together, these contributions define the field in all its dynamism, negotiating world-reshaping events from globalism to localism, technological change to new regional politics. Ann Markusen, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota