Economic Geography

Peter W. Daniels
is Professor of Geography and Co-Director, Services and
Enterprise Research Unit, University of Birmingham (UK). He has undertaken
research on the service economy, especially producer services as key agents in
metropolitan and regional restructuring at the national and international scale.
His publications include Service Industries: A Geographical Appraisal (1985),
Services and Metropolitan Development (1991), Service Industries in the World
Economy (1993), Services in the Global Economy, Vols I and II (with J. R. Bryson,
1998), Service Worlds: People, Organizations, Technologies (with J. R. Bryson and
B. Warf, 2004); Service Industries and Asia-Pacific Cities: New Development
Trajectories (with K. C. Ho and T. A. Hutton, 2005); The Service Industries
Handbook (with J. R. Bryson, in press, 2006). 
Peter Dicken
is Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography in the School 
of Environment and Development at the University of Manchester, UK. He has
held visiting academic appointments at universities and research institutes in
Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore, Sweden and the 
US and lectured in many other countries throughout Europe and Asia. He is an
Academician of the Social Sciences, a recipient of the Victoria Medal of the Royal
Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and of an
Honorary Doctorate of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Rafiq Dossani
is a senior research scholar at Shorenstein APARC, responsible 
for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. His research interests include
South Asian security, and financial, technology, and energy-sector reform in
India. He is currently undertaking projects on political reform, business process
outsourcing, innovation and entrepreneurship in information technology in India,
and security in the Indian subcontinent. His most recent books are Prospects 
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for Peace in South Asia (co-edited with Henry Rowen), published in 2005 by
Stanford University Press, and Telecommunications Reform in India, published in
2002 by Greenwood Press.