The world economy: Resources location trade and development

The world economy: Resources, location, trade, and development, now in its fifth edition, offers an overview of the field of economic geography and irs linkages to related issues of development and understanding of the issues is central to both liberal arts and professional education, for the concerned voter to the engaged business practioner. This work is designed as a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which economic activity is stretched over the space of the earth's surface. Economists too rarely take implies all economic activity occurs on the head of a pin. Geographers, in contrast, are interested in the manner in which social relations and activities occur unevenly over space, the ways in which local place and the global economy are intertwined, and the difference that location makes to how economic activity is organized. No social process occurs in exactly the same way in different places; thus, where and when economic activity occurs has a profound influence on how it occurs. Space, the, can no longer be relegated to the sidelines. As globalization has made small differences among places increasingly important, space has become more, not less, important. This new edition differs from the previous one in several respects. It has updated empirical data found throughout. Some traditional material has been trimmed to keep the book up to date with changing ideas and approaches. In keeping with the discipline's growing concern for political and cultural issues, which recognizes that the economy cannot be treated separately from other domains of social activity, this volume offers more emphasis on the historical context and political economy of capitalism, including class and gender relations. A new chapter has been added on consumption, which has long been marginalized. Throughout, it synthesizes diverse perspectives-ranging from main-stream location theory to post-structuralism-to reveal capitalism as a profoundly complex, important, and fascinating set of social and spatial relations.