Geography and economy : three lectures
Title:
Geography and economy : three lectures
Author:
Scott, Allen John.
ISBN:
9780199284306
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Publication Information:
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
xiv, 174 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series:
Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies
Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studies.
Contents:
1. Geography and the division of labour: Introduction -- Classical political economy and the division of labour -- The organization of inudstry -- The division of labour and agglomeration -- A historiographical digression -- Interregional and international dimensions of the division of labour -- The new economy and the global regional mosaic -- Synthesis : geography and the division of labour. 2. Geography, entrepreneurship, and innovation: Introductory remarks -- Towards a concept of the creative field -- The entrepreneur in spatial context -- Space-time dynamics of innovation I: knowledge, learning, and technical change -- Space-time dynamics of innovation II: culture, sensibility, and symbolic products -- Collective order of the creative field -- Geography and creativity. 3. Geography and development: Theories old and new -- Industrialization on the ground : polemical prelude to a geography of development -- Cities, regions, and productivity -- Regional development in low- and middle-income countries -- Regional push in practice -- Institutions and markets : developmental practice in regional context -- A world of regions.
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Electronic Access:
Available to Stanford-affiliated users at:Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005025981.html