Summary

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.Nearly forty leading practitioners in the fields of geography, political economy and sociology explore the wide-ranging and complex changes in the economic geographies of the contemporary world and the diverse responses to these changes within their disciplines.Highlighting and illustrating contemporary developments, the book opens up discussions about the implications of the complex geographies involved. In pointing to new directions of research and debate, this major statement in state of the art economic geography demonstrates the central relevance ofeconomic geography not only in understanding the trajectories of change but in proposing alternatives.