Economic Geography

see also regional growth
guanxi capitalism 150
Harvey, David 50, 96, 104, 174, 182
hermeneutics 17
High Fliers 192–3
high-technology industries, rise 212
historical-geographical materialism
35, 50
historical geography 106, 108
Hong Kong, TNCs 148
house price boom 227
human–environment relations
128, 133–4
human geography 173, 200
human resource management 204
Hurricane Katrina 217
hybrid capitalism 151
idealism 17
identity 15, 16, 60
multiple 43
national 43
immigration 107, 242
imperfect market 235
India
entry into global economy 141–2
migration of jobs to 248
telecommunications 
infrastructure 139
industrial change, theorization 133
industrial districts 178–9, 182–3, 212
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industrial geography 127, 129, 245
industrial knowledge bases 180
industrial location theory 105
industrial organization 247
information and communications
technology (ICT) 121
impact on research 191–2
innovation 132, 164, 166, 
168–9, 248
capacity 179
future geography of 141
incremental 178, 179
regional systems (RIS)
64, 179–80
by services 120
input–output models 187, 188
institutional approach 51
institutional frameworks 180
institutional geography, as new
economic geography 200
institutionalized structures 148
institutional order 71
institutional thickness 167
institutions, as carriers of history 169
inter-industrial linkages
61, 212, 247
intermediate goods industry 64
intermodalism 138
internalization theory 146
Internet, effects 244, 245, 248
interpretation, theory vs 19, 20–1
interpretative turn 60
interregional trade 188–9
IT see information and communications
technology
job changes 202–3
job creation, in labour market
adjustment 236
job loss, geography of 202
jobs
technology and 244–9
see also employment; labour
JSTOR 214
justice, definitions 39
Keynesian economic policy 58
Keynesian state 84, 85
key sectors, identification 187
knowledge
growth of 139
importance 244, 249
sociology of 56–7
theory of 56
knowledge bases, industrial 180
knowledge economy 240
knowledge-intensity classification 240
knowledge workers 244
Krugman, Paul 16, 53, 60, 62, 200
on competitiveness 162, 164–5, 166
self-promotion 62
Krugman model 16, 60–1
evaluation 62–5
labour
division of 105
gender 37–8
global 136, 140–3
social and cultural issues 235
spatial 244
mental 143
labour force participation 236
labour markets
accounts technique 236
adjustments 236–7, 241
area perceptions 237–8
disaggregation 235
flexibility in 242
geographies 233–42
approaches of economic
geographers 234–6
concerns of economic 
geographers 236–8
context 234
future agenda 241–2
policy issues 238–41
healthy 239
intermediaries 238
mobility in 241–2
studies 38
inter-disciplinary 236
see also employment
land market 104
landscape studies 106–7
late capitalism 70
learning 132
collective 166, 179
firm-based 132
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learning networks 131
learning regions 64, 179–80, 182
level of living studies 174, 175
liberal market economies 180
linked industries/firms 61, 212, 247
Lisbon Agenda 160
livelihood possibilities, measurement 11
local buzz 179
localized competitive advantages 64–5
local labour market processes 64
locational adjustment 65
location theory 12–13, 48, 163
lock-in 169–70, 178
logical empiricism 17
Lone Eagles 192–3
Lösch, August 12–13
management field, economic
geographers in 204
manufacturing 25, 128, 140, 197–205
employment decline 198
theoretical perspectives 199–201