Jonathan Beaverstock / Andrew Leyshon (eds.)

Geographies of the New Economy

Critical Reflections
Herausgeber: Daniels, Peter W; Beaverstock, Jonathan; Bradshaw, Michael J; Leyshon, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on international evidence, this book explores the meaning and consequences of the 'new economy' and debates the efficacy of this widely used concept.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780415357838
• ISBN-10: 0415357837
• Artikelnr.: 21694838

Autorenporträt

Peter Daniels is Professor of Geography and Co-Director of the Services and Enterprise Research Unit at the University of Birmingham. He has undertaken research on the service economy, especially producer services as key agents in metropolitan and regional restructuring at the national and international scale. Mike Bradshaw is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leicester. His research is on the economic geography of Russia, with a particular focus on the Russian Far East and energy relations with N E Asia. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. Jonathan Beaverstock is Professor of Economic Geography at Loughborough University. His research focuses on globalization and world cities, and the organizational strategies of transnational professional service firms in international financial centres. Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on geographies of money and finance, with research including an analysis of the dynamics of monetary networks in financial centres, the geography of local currency systems and exploring geographies of financial exclusion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Geographies of the New Economy 2. Making Sense of the 'New Economy'?:
Realities, Myths and Geographies 3. The Old Economy 4. The New Economy, or
the Emperor's New Clothes? 5. The New Old Thing: E-commerce Geographies
after the Dot.com Boom 6. The New Economy and Earnings Inequalities:
Explaining Social, Spatial and Gender Divisions in the UK and London 7.
Labour Organising in the New Economy: Examples from the United States and
Beyond 8. New Aspirations and Old Dilemmas: The New Economy and Development
in Southeast Asia 9. Russia's New Economy