Approaches to Economic Geography

The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism and the spread of capitalism into parts of the world from which it had previously been excluded. Beginning with a grounding in Marxian political economy, this book explores a range of new ideas as to what economic geography can offer as it interse

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Ray Hudson is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy for the Social Sciences, the Regional Studies Association and the Royal Geographical Society and is a Member of Academia Europaea. He is also a long-standing Professor of Geography at Durham University, UK.

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Table of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1 Setting the Scene: Steps towards a Geographical Political Economy

Chapter 2 Conceptualising Economies and Their Geographies: Spaces, Flows and Circuits

Chapter 3 "The learning economy, the learning firm and the learning region": a sympathetic critique of the limits to learning

Chapter 4 From knowledge-based economy to knowledge-based economy? Reflections on changes in the economy and development policies in the north east of England

Chapter 5 Re-thinking change in old industrial regions: reflecting on the experiences of north east England

Chapter 6 Global production systems and European integration: de-regionalising, re-regionalising and re-scaling production systems in Europe

Chapter 7 Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the "social" and the "economic" in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream

Chapter 8 Thinking through the relationships between legal and illegal activities and economies: spaces, flows and pathways

Chapter 9 Cultural Political Economy Meets Global Production Networks: A Productive Meeting?

Chapter 10 Critical political economy and materials transformation

Chapter 11 Resilient regions in an uncertain world: Wishful thinking or a practical reality?

Chapter 12 The future of economic geography and economic geographies of the future

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