Yuko Aoyama is Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University and is currently an editor-in-chief of Economic Geography.Her main areas of interests are in global economic change, technological innovation, and cultural economies. She has published in a wide variety of topics in the economic geography of technology industries, including Japan’s foreign direct investment in the electronics industry, technological adoption by consumers and globalization of the retail sector, comparative evolution of the video game industry, and the organizational dynamics of the logistics industry. As a former Abe Fellow (SSRC) and recipient of research grants from National Science Foundation’s Geography and Regional Science and Economics Programs, she currently serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and GeoJournal.

This book provides a comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the fieldProfessor Allen J. ScottDepartment of Geography, University of California - Los AngelesThis book guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of economic geography. The authors have produced a comprehensive and insightful account of both the heterodox theoretical vocabularies and substantive research concerns that characterise contemporary economic geography. The key concepts used to structure this narrative range from key actors and processes within global economic change to a discussion of newer areas of research including work on financialisation and consumption. The result is a highly readable synthesis of contemporary debates within economic geography that is also sensitive to the history of the sub-disciplineSarah HallSchool of Geography, University of Nottingham

• IntroductionKey Agents in Economic Geography LabourFirmStateKey Drivers of Economic ChangeInnovationEntrepreneurshipAccessibilityIndustries and Regions in Economic ChangeIndustrial LocationIndustrial ClustersRegional DisparityPost-FordismGlobal Economic GeographiesCore-PeripheryGlobalizationCircuits of CapitalGlobal Value ChainsSocio-Cultural Contexts of Economic ChangeCultureGenderInstitutionsEmbeddednessNetworksEmerging Themes in Economic GeographyKnowledge EconomyFinancializationConsumptionSustainable Development

Yuko Aoyama is Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University and is currently an editor-in-chief of Economic Geography.Her main areas of interests are in global economic change, technological innovation, and cultural economies. She has published in a wide variety of topics in the economic geography of technology industries, including Japan’s foreign direct investment in the electronics industry, technological adoption by consumers and globalization of the retail sector, comparative evolution of the video game industry, and the organizational dynamics of the logistics industry. As a former Abe Fellow (SSRC) and recipient of research grants from National Science Foundation’s Geography and Regional Science and Economics Programs, she currently serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and GeoJournal.

This book provides a comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the fieldProfessor Allen J. ScottDepartment of Geography, University of California - Los AngelesThis book guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of economic geography. The authors have produced a comprehensive and insightful account of both the heterodox theoretical vocabularies and substantive research concerns that characterise contemporary economic geography. The key concepts used to structure this narrative range from key actors and processes within global economic change to a discussion of newer areas of research including work on financialisation and consumption. The result is a highly readable synthesis of contemporary debates within economic geography that is also sensitive to the history of the sub-disciplineSarah HallSchool of Geography, University of Nottingham

• IntroductionKey Agents in Economic Geography LabourFirmStateKey Drivers of Economic ChangeInnovationEntrepreneurshipAccessibilityIndustries and Regions in Economic ChangeIndustrial LocationIndustrial ClustersRegional DisparityPost-FordismGlobal Economic GeographiesCore-PeripheryGlobalizationCircuits of CapitalGlobal Value ChainsSocio-Cultural Contexts of Economic ChangeCultureGenderInstitutionsEmbeddednessNetworksEmerging Themes in Economic GeographyKnowledge EconomyFinancializationConsumptionSustainable Development

Yuko Aoyama is Associate Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography at the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University and is currently an editor-in-chief of Economic Geography.Her main areas of interests are in global economic change, technological innovation, and cultural economies. She has published in a wide variety of topics in the economic geography of technology industries, including Japan’s foreign direct investment in the electronics industry, technological adoption by consumers and globalization of the retail sector, comparative evolution of the video game industry, and the organizational dynamics of the logistics industry. As a former Abe Fellow (SSRC) and recipient of research grants from National Science Foundation’s Geography and Regional Science and Economics Programs, she currently serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and GeoJournal.

This book provides a comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the fieldProfessor Allen J. ScottDepartment of Geography, University of California - Los AngelesThis book guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of economic geography. The authors have produced a comprehensive and insightful account of both the heterodox theoretical vocabularies and substantive research concerns that characterise contemporary economic geography. The key concepts used to structure this narrative range from key actors and processes within global economic change to a discussion of newer areas of research including work on financialisation and consumption. The result is a highly readable synthesis of contemporary debates within economic geography that is also sensitive to the history of the sub-disciplineSarah HallSchool of Geography, University of Nottingham

• IntroductionKey Agents in Economic Geography LabourFirmStateKey Drivers of Economic ChangeInnovationEntrepreneurshipAccessibilityIndustries and Regions in Economic ChangeIndustrial LocationIndustrial ClustersRegional DisparityPost-FordismGlobal Economic GeographiesCore-PeripheryGlobalizationCircuits of CapitalGlobal Value ChainsSocio-Cultural Contexts of Economic ChangeCultureGenderInstitutionsEmbeddednessNetworksEmerging Themes in Economic GeographyKnowledge EconomyFinancializationConsumptionSustainable Development