Geography and economy: three lectures/ Allen J. Scott.
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TextSeries: Clarendon lectures in geography and environmental studiesPublication details: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 174 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 019928430X (alk. paper); 9780199284306Subject(s): Economic geographyDDC classification: 330.9 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 330.9 SCO/G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P18231 |
Includes bibliographcal references (p. [125]-150) and index.
1.GEOGRAPHY AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR 1
1.1Introduction 1
1.2Classical political economy and the division of labour 2
1.3The organization of industry 7
1.4The division of labour and agglomeration 18
1.5A historiographical digression 26
1.6Interregional and international dimensions of the division of labour 32
1.7The new economy and the global regional mosaic 40
1.8Synthesis: Geography and the division of labour 46
2.GEOGRAPHY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND INNOVATION 49
2.1Introductory remarks 49
2.2Towards a concept of the creative field 52
2.3The entrepreneur in spatial context 55
2.4Spacetime dynamics of innovation I: knowledge, learning, and technical change 62
2.5Spacetime dynamics of innovation II: culture, sensibility, and symbolic products 71
2.6Collective order of the creative field 78
2.7Geography and creativity 83
3.GEOGRAPHY AND DEVELOPMENT 87
3.1Theories old and new 87
3.2Industrialization on the ground:polemical prelude to a geography of development 89
3.3Cities, regions, and productivity 94
3.4Regional development in low and middleincome countries 98
3.5Regional push in practice 103
3.6Institutions and markets: developmental practice in regional context 110
3.7A world of regions 117
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