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The new industrial geography : regions, regulations and institutions / [edited by] Trevor J. Barnes and Meric S. Gertler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 22.
- Routledge studies in the modern world economy ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial location.
- Regional economics.
- Industrial organization.
- Regional economic disparities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to be the perfect basis for understanding the profound economic and geographical changes of the last two decades, and on which also to build a new kind of industrial geography. Issues covered include: the retheorization of the geography of industrial districts; the analysis of institutional 'thi
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1 Industrial geography, institutional economics and Innis; 2 The resurgence of regional economics; 3 The co-operative advantage of regions; 4 Reversing attrition?; 5 Sticky places in slippery space; 6 Harnessing the region; 7 Rules as resources; 8 Continentalism in an era of globalization; 9 The firm in the region and the region in the firm; 10 The production of industrial processes; 11 Does nationality still matter?; 12 Capital and creative destruction; 13 Institutional issues for the European regions; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-60224-3
- 1-134-60225-1
- 1-280-33688-9
- 0-203-02186-X
- 0-203-15933-0
- 9780203021866
- OCLC:
- 171114776
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