The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography

What difference does it make to think the economy in geographical terms? The SAGE Companion to 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 Companion to Economic Geography is a complete overview of the disciple that critically explains and assesses:- Location, the quantitative revolution, the 'œnew economic geography'�- Geographies of globalization ' making sense of globalization and its consequences; the geography of capitalism- Geographies of scale and place: local and global, space and place- Geographies of nature: agriculture; sustainable development; the political ecology and the social construction of nature- Geographies of uneven development: economic decline; technology; money and finance- Geographies of consumption and services: formal and informal spaces of consumption; the culture industries; performance- Geographies of regulation and governance: neo-liberalism, regulation, welfareIllustrated with examples throughout, the SAGE Companion to Economic Geography also provides short essential readings in each chapter to situate the student in the literature. A standard text for all undergraduate modules in economic geography, this text places the discipline in vivid historical and contemporary context.

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Roger Lee is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College.