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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415218020 ISBN 13: 9780415218023

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Synopsis

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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Review:

The New Industrial Geography provides a high-quality summation of the state of the art in the 1990s, rather than setting the pace for a new decade in a new millennium..
–Edward J. Malecki, Ohio State University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0415218020
• ISBN 13: 9780415218023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Barnes Trevor, Gertler Meric S