Geographies of the new economy : critical reflections / edited by Peter Daniels ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daniels, P. W.

Series:

Regions and cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic history--1990-.

Economic history.

Economic geography.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

x, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

This collection of original essays seeks to provoke debate on the efficacy of the widely used and misused concept of the New Economy. The contributors explore meanings of the 'new economy' at the global scale, from the perspective of advanced, post-socialist, and emerging economies. Also discussed are its socio-spatial consequences, with reference to the nature of work(ers), social polarisation, and the impacts of information and communications technology.

Perhaps the New Economy was not that distinctive, but it cannot be written off as merely a redundant episode in the history of capitalism. It has left a legacy that informs our efforts to broaden and deepen understandings of economic change; not least that the New Economy had a distinctive and pervasive geography which coloured both how it emerged and the promises it offered to create a 'frictionless' economy. Conversely, when it failed, geography shaped where the damage was done and where its legacies continue to bring relative prosperity to unexpected locations.

Essential for all those interested in economic geography, this collection reinforces the notion that the New Economy is not only specific to a particular time, when it formed the dominant political and economic discourse, but also to a particular set of places that were home to that ideology. Although it is now more than five years since the New Economy was at its height, this book sheds new light by highlighting its historical and geographical specificity.

Contents:

1 Geographies of the New Economy: an introduction / Andrew Leyshon, Mike Bradshaw, Peter Daniels, Jonathan Beaverstock 1

2 Making sense of the New Economy? Realities, myths and geographies / Ron Martin 15

3 The Old Economy / Roger Lee 49

4 The New Economy, or the Emperor's new clothes? / Andrew C. Pratt 71

5 The New Old Thing: e-commerce geographies after the dot.com boom / Matthew Zook 87

6 The New Economy and earnings inequalities: explaining social, spatial and gender divsions in the UK and London / Diane Perrons 111

7 Labour organizing in the Ne^v Economy: examples from the USA and beyond / Andrew Herod 132

8 New aspirations and old dilemmas: the New Economy and development in Southeast Asia / Michael Leaf 151

9 Russia's New Economy / Julian Cooper, Mike Bradshaw 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415357837

OCLC:

69013574

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