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  Economic geography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the Earth.
Economic geography research focuses on the study of spatial aspects of economic activities on various scales.
In the history of economic geography there were many influences coming mainly from economics and geographical sciences.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_geography   (668 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Economic geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
These aspects of economics were noted by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations and have also been studied by modern economists like David Landes at Harvard University and the 20th century economist Ellsworth Huntington.
Economic geography has fallen out of favour in recent decades with most economists switching to "spatial economics" methods.
Ellsworth Huntington, a professor of economics at Yale University in the early 20th century noted that the Northern, cold regions like the U.S., Britain, Europe and Japan had large, well-developed economies while the hot, tropical countries were less well endowed—the so-called equatorial paradox.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Economic_geography   (301 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Development, Geography, and Economic Theory: Livres: Paul Krugman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Economic geography seems to have fared even worse, as economists shied away from grappling with questions about space -- such as the size, location, or even existence of cities -- because the "terrain was seen as unsuitable for the tools at hand." Krugman's book, however, is not a call to abandon economic modeling.
Paul Krugman is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of The Age of Diminished Expectations, Geography and Trade, and Rethinking International Trade.
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory is based on the author's substantially revised Ohlin Lectures given at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1992.
www.amazon.fr /Development-Geography-Economic-Theory-Krugman/dp/0262112035   (443 words)

  
 Association of American Geographers
Students who have a strong interest in economic geography will be likely to see global interdependence as a focus of their academic program.
Economic geography provides a good background for this, since geographers know about demographics (the statistical characteristics of populations, such as age and income), transportation, availability of labor, shopping habits, and how cities expand.
Geography students planning to work in real estate should supplement their major courses with others in economics, marketing, and finance.
www.aag.org /Careers/Economic_Geography.html   (734 words)

  
 Clark University | Economic Geography Journal
Economic Geography is an internationally peer-reviewed journal, committed to publishing the best theoretically-based empirical articles that deepen the understanding of significant economic geography issues around the world.
Professor Bjørn T. Asheim is a professor in human geography (economic geography) both in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at the University of Lund and at the Centre for Studies of Technology, Innovation and Culture and the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo.
Dr. Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
www.clarku.edu /econgeography   (570 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Development, Geography, and Economic Theory: Books: Paul Krugman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Economic geography seems to have fared even worse, as economists shied away from grappling with questions about space -- such as the size, location, or even existence of cities -- because the "terrain was seen as unsuitable for the tools at hand."
Development and economic geography, he argues, failed because they did not submit themselves to the discipline of model-building - what might look or even be at first sight downright silly in the end is preferable to the unconscious metaphors of the narrative economic discourse.
Development and economic geography - together with income distribution - belong to the derelict class of economic problems that addresses the question of historical disparities of wealth in the economic tissue.
www.amazon.ca /Development-Geography-Economic-Theory-Krugman/dp/0262112035   (1130 words)

  
 Economic Geography
During the twentieth century, new economic trends undermined Chicago's position; decentralization favored suburbs over cities, and the rise of the South and West created new centers of competition for the most dynamic sectors of the economy.
To maintain their economic prominence, Chicagoans sponsored more transportation improvements, like the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, built in the 1890s to replace the obsolete Illinois and Michigan Canal.
Chicago businesses reeled during the Great Depression of the 1930s and then boomed because of World War II defense contracts, but the regional shift determined the long-term trend in economic growth and hence in population, and in 1990 Los Angeles surpassed Chicago as the second city in population and wholesaling.
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/409.html   (4111 words)

  
 Clark University Economic Geography; Current Issue
The intersection among nature, nation, and economic development in northern Quebec is a key example of how resources are embedded in complex national geographies that are shaped across a broad historical span.
Economic theories are first built independently of spatial and temporal contexts, for example, through costs varying according to distance.
This means both that economic centrality still matters (and thus that dispersed cities may not be the twenty-first century's metropolitan archetype) and that an enlarged core business district (CBD) straddling Paris and the western Hauts-de-Seine dŽpartement is being reinforced (thus invalidating the theory of CBD decline).
www.reu.com /EcoGeo/Current.shtml   (977 words)

  
 AAG Economic Geography Speciality Group
Its 7,000 members share interests in the theory, methods, and practice of geography, which they cultivate through the AAG's Annual Meeting, two scholarly journals (the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Professional Geographer), the monthly AAG Newsletter, and the activities of its nine Regional Divisions and 49 Specialty Groups.
Economic Geography: Reconcieving "The Economic" and "The Region"
Workshop on Economic Geography and Its Potential Contribution to Understanding Processes of Globalization and Social and Environmental Change, Washington DC, Spring 1997.
www.geography.uconn.edu /aag-econ   (161 words)

  
 Career Facts - Geography Program - LCC
Geography is concerned with studying the earth’s topography and climate and how these affect people and living things.
Cultural Geography studies variations in climate, vegetation, soil and landforms and their implications for human activity.
Geography is a broad field with varying jobs in the discipline and its related fields.
www.lcc.edu /ss/geography/careerfacts   (440 words)

  
 BUBL LINK: Economic geography
The aim is to rank countries by the extent of corruption in public administration, as the determination of an integrity performance is a useful instrument in assessing country risks, of importance to prospective investors.
Series of detailed handbooks describing and analysing the political, economic, social and national security systems and institutions in over 80 countries, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
Particular attention is devoted to the people who make up the society, their origins, dominant beliefs and values, their common interests and the issues on which they are divided, the nature and extent of their involvement with national institutions, and their attitudes toward each other and toward their social system and political order.
bubl.ac.uk /link/e/economicgeography.htm   (484 words)

  
 Geography 110: Economic Geography of the Industrial world
Geography is an indelible part of all economic processes, whether production, consumption, trade, finance or extraction (though sorely neglected in traditional economic theory).
Geography of Mining: mineral rushes and boomtowns from California to Alaska, prospectors and capitalists, labor mobility and the western worker, class struggles and violence, geology lessons, creating abundance and scarcity; minerals and oil go global, exploration and expropriation, new boomtowns and wreckage, giant corporations and small extractors.
The business end of the pipe: deleterious effects of resource use, mining and the geography of destruction, oil spills, waste and garbage, the geography of disposal and sacrifice lands, synthetics and toxic wastes, global warming and power.
geography.berkeley.edu /ProgramCourses/CoursePagesFA2003/Geog110/Geog110.html   (3125 words)

  
 Geography 3163: Economic Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The primary objective of this course is to familiarize you with the basic concepts related to the advance, spread, and distribution of economic activity across the planet.
The idea of a world marketplace is rapidly becoming a reality, along with a worldwide pattern of transition to open market economies in countries whose economies were previously controlled by their governments.
Despite the lecture and exam format of the class, students are encouraged and expected to contribute to the class by participating in discussion by keeping up on world events that influence the world economy by reading newspapers, magazines, and watching television news.
www.geog.okstate.edu /users/comer/geog3163/econgeog.htm   (245 words)

  
 CID at Harvard University :: Geography and Economic Growth
This work is already revealing (and for the first time scientifically measuring on a world scale) the roles of soils, river navigability, ecozones, population densities, disease vectors, and other geographical factors, in the differential development experiences around the world.
Bloom, Dave E. and Jeffrey Sachs, "Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa" (Revised) October, 1998
Gallup, John and Jeffrey Sachs with Andrew Mellinger, "Geography and Economic Development" Presented at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, World Bank.
www.cid.harvard.edu /cidglobal/economic.htm   (798 words)

  
 Geography Program - Careers in Economic Geography
Economic geography is concerned with the location and distribution of economic activity.
World trade, and financial, economic, and political developments have transformed disparate economic systems into a highly interdependent global market place.
In the same vein, Geography: Making Sense of Where We Are says, "We can no longer afford to divide the world into things American and things non-American.
www.plattsburgh.edu /academics/geography/careers/economic.php   (784 words)

  
 SMC -- Economic Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The objective of this course is to provide a sophisticated introduction to the patterns and processes of economic activity in the world.
The course begins with some comments about the world economy in general considering the nature of economic organization and spatial change.
Papers focus on the geography of a particular economic sector and require empirical research.
academics.smcvt.edu /geography/ECONOMIC.HTML   (256 words)

  
 Summer Institute in Economic Geography
The third Summer Institute in Economic Geography will take place in Madison, Wisconsin, USA in June, 2006.
The Institute, which meets biannually, provides an opportunity to investigate leading-edge theoretical and methodological questions, along with a range of associated professional development issues, in the field of economic geography, broadly defined.
Core funding for the Summer Institute in Economic Geography is provided by the National Science Foundation, Economic Geography, and Worldwide Universities Network.
www.wun.ac.uk /economicgeography/index.html   (132 words)

  
 Intute: Social Sciences - Human Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The main focus is on areas of human geography relevant to the social sciences.
The primary website for information and resources relating to learning and teaching in geography is Higher Education Academy subject centre Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES).
Further geography resources, including physical geography, can be found on Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology.
www.intute.ac.uk /socialsciences/geography   (86 words)

  
 Economic Geography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Through these processes we expect the student to understand the nature of geography and the role this discipline plays in a liberal education.
While this class is based on the premise that "location" still matters, it also explores how this premise has changed for different economic activities due to advances in communication and transport technologies.
The class surveys many of the location and spatial concepts which have become the theoretical foundation of much of the work in Social, Human and Economic Geography.
personal.carthage.edu /jrivera/class-syllabi/economicgeography.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Economic Geography
Borchert, J. "Major control points in American economic geography." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 68-2 (1978): 214-32.
Geography and the Urban Environment, (New York: John Wiley, 1981).
Gertler, M. "Regional Capital Theory." Progress in Human Geography 8-1 (1984): 50-81.
www.architect.org /bibliography/economic_geography.html   (294 words)

  
 Oxford Journals | Social Sciences | Journal of Economic Geography
The aims of the Journal of Economic Geography are to redefine and reinvigorate the intersection between economics and geography, and to provide a world-class journal in the field.
It publishes original academic research and discussion of the highest scholarly standard in the field of 'economic geography' broadly defined.
Submitted papers are refereed, and are evaluated on the basis of their creativity, quality of scholarship, and contribution to advancing understanding of the geographic nature of economic systems and global economic change.
joeg.oxfordjournals.org   (118 words)

  
 Publications: Poverty Mapping and Economic Geography - Bibliography
Bloom D. & Sachs J. (1998): "Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1998:2.
Green A. (1994): "The Geography of Poverty and Wealth", ISBN 0 9515763 1 3, 177 pp.
Kamarck A. (1976): "The tropics and Economic Development: A provocative Inquiry in the Poverty of Nations", The Johns Hopkins Press.
www.povertymap.net /publications/doc/ecogeo_bib.htm   (1061 words)

  
 JSTOR: Economic Geography
, published quarterly by Clark University, is a leading English-language journal devoted to the study of economic geography and is widely read by academics and professionals around the world.
Highlighting the publication of theoretically-based empirical articles and case studies of significant theoretical trends that are occurring within the field of economic geography, the journal serves as a forum for high-quality and innovative scholarship.
Articles in the past decade chronicle the significant upsurge of scholarly interest in economic geography during a period of massive change, rampant technological growth, and realignment in the global economy.
www.jstor.org /journals/00130095.html   (152 words)

  
 UW Madison Geography - Jamie Peck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban and Economic Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Geography and public policy: constructions of neoliberalism." Progress in Human Geography.
"Geography and public policy: mapping the penal state." Progress in Human Geography.
www.geography.wisc.edu /faculty/peck/welcome.html   (282 words)

  
 LSE - Economic Geography
This syllabus is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of economic geography.
In a spatial context it draws upon many of the fundamentals of economics which have been covered in the introductory economics syllabus.
Changing perspectives on the location of economic activity: Theories of economic change and theories of location.
www.globaldegree.org /Economic_Geography.htm   (204 words)

  
 Politics of scale and the globalization of the South Korean automobile industry Economic Geography - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This article was informed by recent contributions to the social science literature that have emphasized the multiscalar processes of globalization (Dicken, Peck, and Tickell 1997; Yeung 2000, 2002; Cox forthcoming; MacKinnon and Phelps 2001).
As an alternative to the conventional "top-down" approaches to globalization-which view globalization as something imposed from the outside-these recent approaches have contended that globalization is materially and discursively constructed out of complex interactions among diverse social, political, and economic processes occurring at various geographic scales.
As Cox (forthcoming) argued, globalization is not the condition for the changing balance of class forces, but the product of class struggle.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3660/is_200304/ai_n9208103   (512 words)

  
 malecki
Urban, rural and regional economic development, technological change, regional policy, research and development, technology policy, telecommunications, corporate location and behavior.
“The Economic Geography of the Internet’s Infrastructure,” Economic Geography, vol.
“Economic Geography,” in N.J. Smelser and P.B. Baltes, eds.
www.geography.ohio-state.edu /faculty/malecki   (772 words)

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