Librería Portfolio

Long-awaited follow-up to one of the most influential volumes in the vibrant research field of Economic Geography
This second edition offers a radically revised, updated, and broader approach to economic geography
Important new contributions from a galaxy of leading scholars
Covers many new topics including digital economies, financial innovation, crisis and austerity



The first fifteen years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world economy. In addition, they have exposed the inadequacies of mainstream economics in providing answers to these challenges.

This volume gathers over 50 leading scholars from around the world to offer a forward-looking perspective of economic geography to understanding the various building blocks, relationships, and trajectories in the world economy. The perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the book should be an essential reference for students, researchers, as well as strategists and policy makers.

Building on the success of the first edition, this volume offers a radically revised, updated, and broader approach to economic geography. With the backdrop of the global financial crisis, finance is investigated in chapters on financial stability, financial innovation, global financial networks, the global map of savings and investments, and financialization. Environmental challenges are addressed in chapters on resource economies, vulnerability of regions to climate change, carbon markets, and energy transitions. Distribution and consumption feature alongside more established topics on the firm, innovation, and work. The handbook also captures the theoretical and conceptual innovations of the last fifteen years, including evolutionary economic geography and the global production networks approach. Addressing the dangers of inequality, instability, and environmental crisis head-on, the volume concludes with strategies for growth and new ways of envisioning the spatiality of economy for the future.



Table of Contents
Introduction, Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P Feldman, Meric S Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik
Part 1: Grounded in Place
1: Global Prospects: The Asian Century?, Mike Berry and Benno Engels
2: Inequality in Advanced Economies, Danny Dorling
3: Income Inequality and Growing Disparity: Spatial Patterns of Inequality and the Case of the U.S., Amy Glasmeier
4: The Emerging Transformation of China´s Economic Geography, Kam Wing Chan
5: Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary India, Stuart Corbridge
6: Crisis and Austerity in Action: Greece, Maria Tsampra
Part II: Conceptual Foundations
7: Economic Growth and Economic Development: Geographic Dimensions, Definition and Disparities, Maryann P. Feldman and Michael Storper
8: Heterodoxy as Orthodoxy: Prolegomenon for a Geographical Political Economy, Eric Sheppard
9: Relational Research Design in Economic Geography, Harald Bathelt and Johannes Glückler
10: Behaviour in Context, Gordon L. Clark
11: Evolutionary Economic Geography, Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken
12: Institutions, Geography, and Economic Life, Meric S. Gertler
Part III: Innovation
13: Economic Ecosystems, Phil Auerswald and Lokesh Dani
14: How Geography Shapes-and is Shaped by-the Internet, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein
15: Schumpeterian Customers? How Active Users Co-Create Innovations, Gernot Grabher and Oliver Ibert
16: The Geography of the Creative Industries: Theoretical Stocktaking and Empirical Illustration, Mark Lorenzen
17: Firms in Context: Internal and External Drivers of Success, Mercedes Delgado
Part IV: The Firm
18: The Logic of Agglomeration, Gilles Duranton
19: Network Geographies and Geographical Networks: Co-Dependence and Co-Evolution of Multinational Enterprises and Space, Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann
20: The Logic of Production Networks, Henry Wai-chung Yeung
21: Global Sourcing of Business Process, Stephan Manning, Marcus M. Larsen, and Chacko G. Kannothra
22: Towards New Economic Geographies of Retail Globalization, Neil M. Coe and Neil Wrigley
23: Corporate Social Responsibility and Standards, Alex Hughes
Part V: Work
24: Pluralizing Labour Geography, Jamie Peck
25: Precarious Work and Winner Take-all Economies, Kendra Strauss
26: Talent, Skills, and Urban Economies, Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander
27: Immigration and the Politics of Skill, Natasha Iskander and Nichola Lowe
Part VI: Finance
28: Finance and Financial Systems: Evolving Geographies of Crisis and Instability, Gary A. Dymski
29: The Global Financial Networks, Dariusz Wójcik
30: Information Flows and the New Digital Spaces of the Global Economy, Matthew Zook
31: ´Organic Finance´: The Incentives in Our Investment Products, Ashby Monk and Rajiv Sharma
32: Financialization of Everday Life, Karen P.Y. Lai
33: Infrastructure and Finance, Philip O´Neill
Part VII: Environment
34: The Financialization Thesis Revisited: Commodities as an Asset Class, Sarah McGill
35: Vulnerable Regions in a Changing Climate, Robin Leichenko
36: Carbon Markets: Resource Governance and Sustainable Valuation, Janelle Knox-Hayes
37: Long Run Resource Scarcity, Dieter Helm
38: Reconceptualizing Resource Peripheries, Caitlin A. McElroy
39: Outside Regional Paths: Constructing an Economic Geography of Energy Transitions, Susan Christopherson
Part VIII: Strategies for Development
40: Green Growth, Cameron Hepburn, Alexander Pfeiffer, and Alexander Teytelboym
41: Pursuing Equitable Economic Growth in the Global South, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Callum Wilkie
42: Just Growth: Strategies for Growth with Equity, Karen Chapple
43: Policy Through Practice: Local Communities, Self-Organization, and Policy, Jennifer Clark
44: Innovation Highways and the Geography of Inclusive Growth, Anita M. McGahan and Janice Stein
45: Shocking Aspects of Regional Development: Towards an Economic Geography of Resilience, Ron Martin