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Rolf Sternberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Zur Diskussion gestellt. Erster Nobelpreis für einen „Economic Geographer“ – eine Bewertung aus Sicht eines Wirtschaftsgeographen
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 2009Co-Authors: Rolf SternbergAbstract:First Nobel Prize given to an “Economic Geographer” - a critical assessment from the perspective of a proper Economic Geographer. This paper critically assesses both the theoretical approach of the New Economic Geography (NEG) developed by US economist Paul Krugman and the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to give him the 2008 “Nobel Prize in Economics” for his work on trading patterns and the spatial concentration of Economic activities. This assessment is done from the perspective of a proper Economic Geographer. The basics of Krugman’s NEG models are presented and discussed in the lights of the state-of-the-art of current theoretical and empirical work on NEG. A considerable effort is undertaken to identify the specific strengths and weaknesses of this attempt to explain spatial concentration of Economic activities in the scope of spatial equilibrium models. Despite the fact that most of the proper Economic Geographers, namely in Germany, have hitherto been quite reluctant in working with NEG models and its propositions the message targeted at Economic Geographers is clear: they should use the huge potential of the NEG available for empirical and policy-related research more intensively than before. Thus, the decision of the Nobel Prize committee is good news not only for economists interested in spatial concentration, but for proper Economic Geographers as well.
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zur diskussion gestellt erster nobelpreis fur einen Economic Geographer eine bewertung aus sicht eines wirtschaftsgeographen
Zeitschrift Fur Wirtschaftsgeographie, 2009Co-Authors: Rolf SternbergAbstract:First Nobel Prize given to an “Economic Geographer” - a critical assessment from the perspective of a proper Economic Geographer. This paper critically assesses both the theoretical approach of the New Economic Geography (NEG) developed by US economist Paul Krugman and the decision of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to give him the 2008 “Nobel Prize in Economics” for his work on trading patterns and the spatial concentration of Economic activities. This assessment is done from the perspective of a proper Economic Geographer. The basics of Krugman’s NEG models are presented and discussed in the lights of the state-of-the-art of current theoretical and empirical work on NEG. A considerable effort is undertaken to identify the specific strengths and weaknesses of this attempt to explain spatial concentration of Economic activities in the scope of spatial equilibrium models. Despite the fact that most of the proper Economic Geographers, namely in Germany, have hitherto been quite reluctant in working with NEG models and its propositions the message targeted at Economic Geographers is clear: they should use the huge potential of the NEG available for empirical and policy-related research more intensively than before. Thus, the decision of the Nobel Prize committee is good news not only for economists interested in spatial concentration, but for proper Economic Geographers as well.
Trevor J Barnes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reopke lecture in Economic geography notes from the underground why the history of Economic geography matters the case of central place theory
Economic Geography, 2012Co-Authors: Trevor J BarnesAbstract:AbstractThe discipline of Anglo-American Economic geography seems to care little about its history. Its practitioners tend toward the “just do it” school of scholarship, in which a concern with the present moment in Economic geography subordinates all else. In contrast, I argue that it is vital to know Economic geography’s history. Historical knowledge of our discipline enables us to realize that we are frequently “slaves of some defunct” Economic Geographer; that we cannot escape our geography and history, which seep into the very pores of the ideas that we profess; and that the full connotations of Economic geographic ideas are sometimes purposively hidden, secret even, revealed only later by investigative historical scholarship. My antidote: “notes from the underground,” which means a history of Economic geography that delves below the reported surface. This history is often subversive, contradicting conventional depictions; it is antirationalist, querying universal (timeless) foundations; it seeks out...
Boateng G - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Building collapse: pathologies in cities in Ghana
RMIT University, 2019Co-Authors: Boateng GAbstract:Charles Gore, the British Economic Geographer, once said that to the extent that national economies and societies are not completely isolated and closed from outside influences, any social inquiry that gives primacy to just internal national factors, isolates and separates them from external influences as determinants of phenomena has not completed its intellectual task. This view, which is in perfect congruence with the tenets of the methodology of accident research developed by political economists for studying public risks, is detailed in Gore's celebrated critique of the so-called methodological nationalism and spatial separatism. This thesis distils the methods, ideas and lessons accrued in the literature on the methodology of accident research to explore the very serious but under researched urban issue of building collapse in developing countries' cities through a case study of Ghana. Much has been written about the speculative urbanism in the Global South-the patterns, problems, and prospects. But much less is known about the foundations of the shaky buildings that characterize it, apart from the conventional pathological-indeed Malthusian-view that the unstable buildings in the cities are the result of building need pressures induced by overurbanization-the so-called `population bomb'. In this study, the analytical purchase of this pathological or population focal framing of building collapse in Global South cities to Africa's situation is challenged. It is argued that while they tend to be closely linked to population expansions, the influences of vulnerability for building collapse in African cities are structurally interwoven into the political economy settlement of their housing sectors most of which were shaped and moulded from the dynamic interplay of indigenous, inherited and externally-imposed conditions and factors. The population-heavy approach to building collapse, therefore, serves as a convenient distraction by obfuscating their historical-institutional context - i.e. the impact of the housing programs, policies and ideologies of colonial and postcolonial governments and international bodies on the creation and magnification of building risks in those parts of the world. The thesis assembles detailed empirical data, via interviews and focus group discussions, from a range of professionals, including building inspectors, planners, architects and researchers from Ghana as well as data from various secondary sources and interprets them within the political economists' methodology of accident research framework to demonstrate the analytical value of the above proposition. It shows how the intersectionality of colonial and postcolonial modernization and recent market-led neoliberal capitalist policies of successive governments and programs of international bodies and their resulting transformations have shaped Ghana's informal settlement of building supply and customary land tenure systems into enduring impediments that undermine compliance and enforcement of safe construction practices, with adverse repercussions for building safety. Based on this analysis, the frequently asserted view that, as with developed countries, vulnerability for building collapses in developing countries could be addressed administratively through the enforcement of technical or engineering regulations or codes has shakier basis than is commonly assumed. Interventions to reduce such risks must be broad, more-wider reaching and involve initiatives that address more than just direct compliance and enforcement of technical regulations. They must also target the historically and socially created socio-political-Economic factors, processes and systems that shape, dictate and implicate the pursuit and the provision of building needs and services in ways that produce progressive outcomes for a minority few and largely deleterious outcomes for the majority
Leslie Dienes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Economic Geographic Relations in the Post-Soviet Republics
Post-Soviet Geography, 1993Co-Authors: Leslie DienesAbstract:A senior American Economic Geographer examines a broad array of geographical factors affecting Economic relations among the Soviet successor states (particularly Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan) and relations among their constituent regions. Special attention is devoted to legacies of unequal resource endowment and infrastructure development from the Soviet period (e.g., monopolization and spatial concentration of production capacity, “trunklining” of distribution nets) and other factors perpetuating dependency relationships in post-Soviet Economic space. 3 tables, 66 references.
Perlik Manfred - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions: Landscapes as Commodities
HAL CCSD, 2019Co-Authors: Perlik ManfredAbstract:International audienceMountain regions are subject to a unique set of Economic pressures: they act as collective enterprises which have to valorize rare resources, such as spectacular landscapes. While primarily rural in nature, they often border large cities, and the development of industries such as hydroelectric power and the rapid development of tourism can bring about sweeping socioEconomic change and vast demographic alterations. The Spatial and Economic Transformation of Mountain Regions describes the socioEconomic changes and spatial impacts of the last four decades, with the transformation of mountain areas held up as an example. Much of the real-world context draws on the Alps, spanning as they do the significant economies of France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Chapters address academic discourse on regional development in these mountain areas and suggest alternative approaches to the liberal-productivist societal model. This book will be essential reading for professionals, institutions, and NGOs searching for counter-models to the existing marketing approaches for peripheral areas. It will also be of interest to students of regional development, Economic geography, environmental studies, and industrial Economics.. As an Economic Geographer, his focus is on urbanization in mountain areas and his recent research deals with questions of spatial justice, transformative social innovation, and new migration-chosen or forced-into mountain areas
