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Geography and Economy - Three Lectures (Hardcover)
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Geography and Economy - Three Lectures (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies
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This book focuses on the theme of the mutually constitutive
relations between geographic space and the economic order. Three
principle lines of investigation are identified and explored.
First, Allen J. Scott sketches out the general theory of the
division of labour and the ways in which it is reflected in
geographic patterns of specialization and interaction. He examines,
in particular, the role of the division of labour in the formation
of large-scale agglomerations of economic activity and the ways in
which their internal and external relationships are played out.
Second, he considers the structure of geographic space as a
fountainhead of creativity, learning, and innovation. A theory of
the creative field is presented, and its application to the
investigation of entrepreneurship, technological change, and the
dynamics of the cultural economy is considered. Third, he offers an
account of the regional question in less developed parts of the
world. Here, he recovers some of the arguments of high development
theory and shows how they can be revitalized in the light of a
specifically geographic approach. These three lines of
investigation are, of course, tightly intertwined with one another.
The argument in general demonstrates that geographic space is not
just an inert dimension in which the economy unfolds, but plays an
active role in the eventuation of economic outcomes. This state of
affairs raises many difficult policy questions about growth and
development in both more and less economically advanced countries.
Some of the more important of these questions are also broached in
the book.
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