The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. Roger Lee is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He is an economic geographer interested in the connections and contradictions between the presumed hard logics of economy and their socio-cultural practice and in the possibilities for progressive change that might ensue from the latter.Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford.  Professor Peter Sunley is Professor of Economic Geography within Geography and Environment at the University of Southampton.

• Introduction - Andrew Leyshon et alPART ONE: LOCATION MODELS AND QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHYLocating Location Models - J rgen EssletzbichlerThe Quantitative Revolution and Economic Geography - Trevor BarnesThe ′New Economic Geography′: Credible Models of the Economic Landscape? - Ron MartinPART TWO: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SPACE IMaking Sense of Globalization Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Geographies - Richard Peet, Ipsita Chatterjee and Elaine HartwickUnpacking Globalization: Changing Geographies of the Global Economy - Neil M. CoeThe Consequences of Economic Globalization - Peter SunleyPART THREE: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SPACE IIThe Local in the Global - Martin JonesCritical Sociospatial Theory and the Geographies of Uneven Spatial Development - Neil BrennerSpace, Place and Labour - Philip KellyPART FOUR: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF SPACE III The Geographies of Capitalism - Susan ChristophersonCapitalism and Social Justice - Paul RoutledgeGlobalisation and the City - Jonathan V. Beaverstock, James R. Faulconbridge and Michael HoylerTowards a Critical Economic Geography of Workfare - Michael SamersPART FIVE: POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF NATUREThe Economy of Nature: From Political Ecology to the Social Construction of Nature - Gavin BridgeThe Antonymies of Sustainable Development: Sustaining What, How, and for Whom - David DemerittTowards Visceral Entanglements: Knowing and Growing the Economic Geographies of Food - Michael K. GoodmanPART SIX: UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT: GEOGRAPHIES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DECLINEGeographies of Economic Decline - Ray HudsonGeographies of Economic Growth I: Industrial and Technology Regions - Nick Henry and Stuart DawleyGeographies of Economic Growth II: Money and Finance - Michael PrykePART SEVEN: GEOGRAPHIES OF CONSUMPTION AND ECONOMIC SPECTACLEGeographies of Retailing and Consumption: The Shopping List Compendium - Louise CreweAn Economic Geography of the Cultural Industries - Andy C PrattDoing Gender, Performing Work - Linda McdowellPART EIGHT: RETHINKING THE ECONOMICFeminist Economic Geographies - Louise JohnsonOrdinary Economic Geographies: Can Economic Geographies Be Non-Economic? - Roger LeeTowards a Non-Economic, Economic Geography? From Black Boxes to the Cultural Circuit of Capital in Economic Geographies of Firms and Managers - Andrew Leyshon

One of the best economic georgraphy texts in recent years, covering both the history of the discipline and outlining areas for future research... The quality of the chapters remains high throughout and many can and should remain as future reference for research and/or teaching.