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The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy, 22)

By Trevor Barnes

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0415218020, 9780415218023, 9780203159330
Open Library ID
OL16955692M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2865611 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
352\348
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to be the perfect basis for understanding the profound economic and geographical changes of the last two decades, and on which also to build a new kind of industrial geography. Issues covered include: the retheorization of the geography of industrial districts; the analysis of institutional 'thickness', and the economic-geographical effects of institutional rigidity and sclerosis; the economic-geographical consequences of new regulatory bodies and policies; and the geographically situated character of institutions and regulatory frameworks, and the effects of separating them from their originating context; the development of new strategies for achieving more equitable forms of regional development.

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