Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction

Economic geography

The New Economic Geography — An Introduction to the Bank ’ s 2006 Economic Symposium

During the past 20 years, the number of countries taking part in the global economy has soared. Some countries made this transition by reforming their economic systems. Others did so by reducing their reliance on capital controls and barriers to trade. Their transition to market economies has been facilitated by improvements in transportation technology that reduced the cost of shipping goods a...

Reshaping Economic Geography

Geography and Economic Development

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choices. Many geographic regions that have not been conducive to modern economic growth have high population densities and are experiencing rapid increases in popu...

Rethinking relational economic geography

Recent theoretical and empirical work in economic geography has experienced what might be termed a ‘relational turn’ that focuses primarily on the ways in which sociospatial relations of economic actors are intertwined with processes of economic change at various geographical scales. This phenomenon begs the questions of whether the ‘relational turn’ is simply an explicit reworking of what migh...