Reading Economic Geography

Four professors have assembled a reader of 15 previously published papers, presenting what they believe to be effective and provocative works of writing by economic geographers and offering some advice on how to read them critically. Originally conceived in parallel with the Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography (2000), this reader maintains a similar formatting, devoting separate sections to major theoretical approaches, traditional themes of economics as related to geography, the relationship between the economy and the biophysical environment, relations between society and economics, and long-standing yet currently neglected issues such as connectivity and embeddedness. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Trevor J. Barnes is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His previous publications include A Companion to Economic Geography (co-edited with Eric Sheppard, Blackwell Publishing, 2001).

Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Work-place (Guilford, 1996) and Workfare States (Guilford, 2001) and co-editor (with Henry Yeung) of Remaking the Global Economy: economic-geographical perspectives (Sage, 2003)

Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Capitalist Space Economy and A World of Difference and the co-editor with Trevor Barnes of A Companion to Economic Geography (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and with Robert McMaster of Scale and Geographic Inquiry (Blackwell Publishing, 2003).Adam Tickell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol. He is editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and review editor of the Journal of Economic Geography.