Economic Geography During the height of the ‘quantitative revolution’ of the 1960s, Economic Geography was a tightly focused and specialized field of research. Now, it sprawls across several disciplines to embrace multiple theoretical, philosophical and empir- ical approaches. This volume moves economic geography through a series of theoretical and methodological approaches, looking both towards the future and to the discipline’s engagement with public policy. Economic Geography covers contributions by selected economic geographers whose purpose is to help explain the interconnection among all forces that trig- ger societal change, namely the ever-changing capitalist system. The contributors record changing foci and methodologies from the 1960–1980 period of quanti- tative economic geography, the 1980s interest in understanding how regimes of accumulation in a capitalist world construct spaces of uneven development, and how the 1990s literature was enriched by differing viewpoints and methodolo- gies which were designed to understand the local effects of the global space economy. In the new century, the overwhelming response has been that of bridg- ing gaps across ‘voices within the sub-discipline of Economic Geography’ in order to maximize our understanding of processes that shape our social, political and economic existence. Contributors also highlight what they see as the chal- lenges for understanding contemporary issues, thus putting down markers for younger researchers to take the lead on. Through a collection of 20 chapters on theoretical constructs and methodolo- gies, debates and discourses, as well as links to policymaking and policy evaluation, this volume provides a succinct view of concepts and their historical trajectories in Economic Geography. Readers are exposed to the breadth of the discipline and engaged in current debates and understandings of the critical components of research in economic geography, theoretical, empirical and applied. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen is a Professor in the Department of Geography, University at Buffalo-State University of New York. Helen Lawton Smith is Reader in Management, School of Management and Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck, London University and a Distinguished Research Associate at the School of Geography, Oxford University. Economic Geography Past, present and future Edited by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Helen Lawton Smith I~ ~~o~f!;n~~~up LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2006 by Routledge Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2006 Selection and editorial matter Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Helen Lawton Smith; individual contributors for their contributions Typeset in Galliard by Keyword Group Ltd The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercail-No Derivatives 4.0 license. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested. ISBN13: 978-0-415-36784-4 (hbk) Routledge Studies in Economic Geography The Routledge Studies in Economic Geography series provides a broadly based platform for innovative scholarship of the highest quality in economic geography. Rather than emphasizing any particular sub-field of economic geography, we seek to publish work across the breadth of the field and from a variety of theo- retical and methodological perspectives. Published: Economic Geography: Past, present and future Edited by Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Helen Lawton Smith Forthcoming: Remaking Regional Economies: Firm strategies, labor markets and new uneven development Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark The New Economy of the Inner City: Regeneration and dislocation in the twenty first century metropolis Thomas Hutton Contents Series Preface xi DAVID P. ANGEL, AMY K. GLASMEIER AND ADAM TICKELL Foreword xiii PETER DICKEN Acknowledgements xvi Contributors xvii Introduction: the past, present and future 1 of economic geography SHARMISTHA BAGCHI-SEN AND HELEN LAWTON SMITH SECTION I Economic geography: roots and legacy 9 1 The economic geography project 11 ERIC SHEPPARD 2 Thinking back, thinking ahead: some questions 24 for economic geographers SUSAN HANSON 3 Feminist economic geographies: gendered identities, 34 cultural economies and economic change LINDA McDOWELL 4 The ‘new’ economic geography? 47 RAY HUDSON 5 A perspective of economic geography 56 ALLEN J. SCOTT viii Contents SECTION II Globalization and contemporary capitalism 81 6 Setting the agenda: the geography of global finance 83 GORDON L. CLARK 7 Economic geography and political economy 94 ANN MARKUSEN 8 The education of an economic geographer 103 RICHARD WALKER 9 On services and economic geography 112 PETER W. DANIELS 10 Towards an environmental economic geography 126 DAVID P. ANGEL 11 Digitizing services: what stays where and why 136 MARTIN KENNEY AND RAFIQ DOSSANI 12 Globalizing Asian capitalisms: 145 an economic-geographical perspective HENRY WAI-CHUNG YEUNG SECTION III Regional competitive advantage: industrial change, 157 human capital and public policy 13 Economic geography and the new discourse of 159 regional competitiveness RON MARTIN 14 Economic geography as (regional) contexts 173 BJØRN T. ASHEIM 15 Approaching research methods in economic geography 186 WILLIAM B. BEYERS 16 Manufacturing, corporate dynamics, and regional 197 economic change H. DOUG WATTS Contents ix 17 On the intersection of policy and economic geography: 208 selective engagement, partial acceptance, and missed opportunities AMY K. GLASMEIER 18 The new imperial geography 221 JOHN LOVERING 19 Labour market geographies: employment and 233 non-employment ANNE GREEN 20 Technology, knowledge, and jobs 244 EDWARD J. MALECKI Index 251 International Advisory Board Bjorn Asheim, University of Oslo and University of Lund Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia Anthony Bebbington, University of Manchester Gavin Bridge, University of Manchester Susan Christopherson, Cornell University Gordon Clark, University of Oxford Meric Gertler, University of Toronto Susan Hanson, Clark University Victoria Lawson, University of Washington Andrew Leyshon, University of Nottingham Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin Richard Peet, Clark University Erica Schoenberger, Johns Hopkins University Allen Scott, UCLA Eric Sheppard, University of Minnesota Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley Henry Yeung, University of Singapore Series Preface Over the past half century, the field of economic geography has been marked by periods of particular dynamism and innovation. From the quantitative revolution of the 1960s to the emergence of a new industrial geography during the 1980s, a combination of theoretical innovation and rapidly changing economic circum- stance have made for an intellectually dynamic field of enquiry. The past decade has been no less significant in terms of theoretical and empirical advance. Economic geography today is a vibrant and growing field of study. New lines of research are emerging that build upon a broadened concept of the economic, upon analysis of economic development and global economic change, and upon renewed interest in issues of policy, institutions and governance. Longstanding research interests in industrial and technological change are being vigorously pursued in the context of new theories of learning and innovation. Economic geography today is methodologically diverse, engaged with issues of compelling social concern, and alive with interesting and provocative scholarship. We are delighted in this context to support the launch of Routledge Studies in Economic Geography. The intent of this new book series is to provide a broadly based platform for innovative scholarship of the highest quality in economic geography. Rather than emphasizing any particular sub-field of economic geog- raphy, we seek to publish work across the breadth of the field and from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. In launching the book series, we also seek to support and promote a move toward a broader, more integrated economic geography. Economic geography now reaches into domains of culture, gender, governance, and nature-society relations that heretofore typically have been treated more or less as separate domains of enquiry. Arguably, some of the most exciting work within economic geography today lies at these interfaces of economic change, whether this is in terms of cultural construction of economies, or the relationship between industrial development, resources and the environment. Contemporary processes of global economic change are also stimulating new research agendas in economic geography. Exciting new research is emerging around the scalar dynamics and relational geographies of global economic change, includ- ing work on such topics as global organizations and global development policies, deregulation of markets and investment regimes and attendant consequences for xii Series Preface sustainable livelihoods around the world, and the local and regional development dynamics accompanying intensified flows of capital, technology and information on a global scale. One consequence of these processes of economic change is that the predominant focus of economic geography on OECD economies is now