In this article, I reflect upon and attempt to understand the changing theoretical nature of post–World War II Anglo-American economic geography. In particular, I contrast the kind of theorizing that first occurred in the discipline during the 1950s with the very different kind now carried out under what has been called the “cultural turn” or the “new economic geography.” I argue that, during t...

Economic geography has begun to explore the options involved in micro-data. New databases have become available and new techniques and an increase in computer power allow their treatment. However, two major issues impede the use of these datasets: the lack of geocoded spatial location and lack of exhaustivity in coverage. In this article, I explore the possibilities of using large micro-scale f...

Change has always been an issue for studies in politics and economics. However, there are few systematic treatments of institutions. This paper exemplifies how institutions (i.e., rules, norms and conventions) relate to the time-geography concepts of constraints, which affect different agents, policy-making, as well as economic performance. This paper seeks to advance the current discussion and...

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...

the purpose of this paper is to describe the concept of neoliberalism, globalization. also, the effects of these concepts on space and geographical identity and also by focusing on globalization effects on geography science have been addressed. finally by criticizing the present way that expands neoliberalism ideology is sought to be able to maintain human being dignity in of economic, social a...