The SAGE Companion to Economic Geography

This Companion illustrates the significance of thinking the 'economy' and the 'economic' geographically. It identifies significant stages in the discipline's development, and focuses on the key themes and ideas that inform present thinking in economic geography. Organised in sections with multiple chapters, the SAGE Companion to Economic Geography is a complete overview of the discipline that critically explains and assesses:

o location, the quantitative revolution, the "new economic geography"

o geographies of globalization and capitalism

o geographies of scale and place

o geographies of nature, agriculture, sustainable development, political ecology and the social construction of nature

o geographies of uneven development and economic decline

o geographies of consumption, services and the cultural insustries

o geographies of regulation and governance

Illustrated with examples throughout, the SAGE Companion to Economic Geography also provides short essential readings in each chapter to situate the student in the literature.