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The economic geography of the UK / edited by Neil M. Coe & Andrew Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--1997-.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 264 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE, 2010.
- London ; Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the UK still facing the repercussions of the 2007 economic downturn, Coe and Jones' text is a timely, engaging discussion of the key issues facing the UK economy from a purely geographical perspective.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Contributors; Part 1 - Setting the scene: uneven economic geographies; 1 Introduction: the shifting geographies of the UK economy?; 2 Persistent North-South divides; 3 Uneven regional growth:the geographies of boom and bust under New Labour; Part 2 - Landscapes of Power, Inequality And Finance; 4 The City and finance:changing landscapes of power; 5 Banking on financial services; 6 The geography of UK government finance:tax, spend and what lies in between; 7 State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK; 8 Housing and the UK economy
- 9 The geographical pension gap: understanding patterns of inequality in UK occupational pensionsPart 3 - Landscapes of Production and Circulation; 10 The changing geographies of manufacturing and work: made in the UK?; 11 Business services: driving the knowledge-based economy in the UK?; 12 Agricultural restructuring and changing food networks in the UK; 13 The shifting geographies of UK retailing; 14 UK energy dilemmas:energy security and climate change; Part 4 - Landscapes of Social Change; 15 Restructuring UK labour markets: work and employment in the twenty-first century
- 16 New migrant divisions of labour17 The UK economy and the transformation of East Central Europe; 18 Coda: the UK economy in an era of globalisation; index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613554932
- 9781446245583
- 1446245586
- 9781446269374
- 144626937X
- 9781280303197
- 1280303190
- 9781446247716
- 1446247716
- OCLC:
- 764572792
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