1st Edition
Approaches to Economic Geography Towards a geographical political economy
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
References
Biography
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.
