The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography

What difference does it make to think about the economy in geographical terms? The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography illustrates the significance of thinking the 'economy' and the 'economic' geographically. It identifies significant stages in the discipline's development, and focuses on the key themes and ideas that inform present thinking in economic geography. Organised in sections with multiple chapters, The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography is a complete overview of the discipline that critically the quantitative revolution, the "new economic geography"Geographies of globalization - making sense of globalization and its consequences; the geography of capitalismGeographies of scale and local and global, space and placeGeographies of agriculture; sustainable development; the political ecology and the social construction of natureGeographies of uneven economic decline; technology; money and financeGeographies of consumption and formal and informal spaces of consumption; the culture industries; performanceGeographies of regulation and neo-liberalism, regulation, welfarePlacing the discipline in vivid historical and contemporary context, The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography is a timely, essential work for postgraduates, researchers and academics in economic geography.