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1. DISCOURSES OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

 

1.1 OVERVIEW

*Scott, A. J., (2000): "Economic geography: the great half-century". In: Clark, G. et al (ed): The Oxford Handbook in Economic geography. Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 18-44.

@Hess, M. (2004): "’Spatial’ relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embeddedness." Progress in Human Geography, 28, pp. 165-186.

 

1.2 EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

@ Boschma, R and Frenken, K. (2006) "Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography." Journal of Economic Geography, 6, 273-302.

*Frenken, K., Oort van, F., Verburg, T. (2007): Related Variety, Unrelated Variety and Regional Economic Growth. Regional Studies 41, pp. 685-697.

*MacKinnon, D., Cumbers, A., Pike, A., Birch, K. and McMaster, R. (2009): Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation. Economic Geography, 85, pp. 129-150.

*Stam, E. & Lambooy, J. (2012), Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, Space, and Place: Evolutionary Economic Geography meets Austrian Economics, in David Emanuel  Andersson (ed.) The Spatial Market Process (Advances in Austrian Economics, Volume 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 81-103. 22s.

@ Martin, R. and Sunley, P. (2007): Complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography. Journal of Economic Geography, 7, 573-601.

 

1.3 RELATIONAL ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

@ Yeung, H.W-C. (2005): "Rethinking relational economic geography". Transactions 30, 37-51.

*Sunley, P. (2008): Relational Economic Geography: A partial understanding or a new paradigm? Economic Geography, 84, pp 1-26.

 

 

2. THE CONCEPT OF INSTITUTIONS

*North, D. C., (1991): “Institutions.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, (1), pp 97–112. 15s.

@ Hodgson, G. M., (2006): “What are Institutions?” Journal of Economic Issues XL (1) pp 1-23. 23s.

*David, P. A., (2007): “Path Dependence, its critics and the quest for “historical economics.” In: The Evolution of Economic Institutions. Edward Elgar. Cheltenham, pp. 120–144. 24s.

*Pagano, U., (2007): “Bounded rationality and institutionalism” In: The Evolution of Economic Institutions. Edward Elgar. Cheltenham, pp. 19-33.  14s.

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3. FIRMS

 

3.1 FIRMS IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT

@ Maskell,P. 2001: "The firm in economic geography". Economic Geography 77, 4, 329-344.

* Markusen, A. (1994): "Studying Regions by Studying Firms". The Professional Geographer. Volume 46 Issue 4 Page 477-490.

 

2.2 FIRMS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

* Dicken, P. (2003): "Placing firms: grounding the debate on the 'global' corporation", In: Peck, J. og Wai-chung Yeung, H. (red.): Remaking the Global Economy. Sage, London, pp. 27-44.

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4. NEOLIBERALIZATION AND NEOLIBERAL RESTRUCTURING

@ Brenner, N. and Theodore, N. (2002): Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism". Antipode 34 (3):349–379. 30s.

@ Coe, N., Johns, J and Ward, K. (2009): Managed Flexibility. Labour Regulation, Corporate Strategies and Market Dynamics in the Swedish Temporary Staffing Industry. European Urban and Regional Studies 16 (1):65–85. 20s.

@ Hayter, R. and Barnes, T. (2012): Neoliberalization and Its Geographic Limits: Comperative Reflections from Forest Peripheries in the Global North. Economic Geography 88 (2):197–221. 25s.

@ Herod, A. and Aguiar, L. (2006): Introduction: Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neoliberalism. Antipode  38 (3):425–434. 11s.

* Eriksson, T and Li, J. (2008): Restructuring meets flexibility. Housekeeping in Danish Hotels. In: Westergaard- Nielsen (ed). Low-wage work in Denmark. Russel Sage.|86-217. 31s.

@ Peck, J, and Tickell, A. (2002): Neoliberalizing spaceAntipode, 381-404. 23s.

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5. CLUSTERS AND INNOVATION SYSTEMS

 

5.1 REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS (RIS)

* Cooke, P. (2004): "Introduction." In Cooke, P., M. Heidenreich, H-J. Braczyk (eds.): Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World. London, New York. Routledge. pp 1-18.  18s.

 

5.2 CLUSTERS

* Enright, M. (2003): "Regional clusters: what we know and what we should know." In: J. Bröcker, D. Dohse and R. Soltwedel (Eds): Innovation Clusters and Interregional Competition. Berlin: Springer. pp. 99–129.  30s.

@ Bathelt, H. (2003): "Geographies of Production: Growth Regimes in Spatial Perspective 1 - Innovation, Institutions and Social Systems." Progress in Human Geography, 27 (6), pp. 763-778. 15s.

@ Bathelt, H. (2005): "Geographies of production: growth regimes in spatial perspective (II) – knowledge creation and growth in clusters." Progress in Human Geography, 29 (2), 204-216. 12s.

* Asheim, B.T. et.al. (2006): "The rise of the cluster concept in regional analysis and policy: a critical assessment." In: Asheim, B.T. et al. (ed.): Clusters and Regional Development. Critical reflections and explorations. Oxon. Routledge. 1-29.  29s.

@ Menzel, M-P & Fornah, D., (2009): Cluster life cycles – dimensions and rationales of cluster evolution. Industrial and Corporate Change, pp. 1–34. 34s.

 

5.3 CASE STUDIES

@ Chapman, K. MacKinnon, D. and Cumbers, A. (2004): "Adjustment or renewal in regional clusters? A study of diversification amongst SMEs in the Aberdeen oil complex". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: 29, 382-396. 14s.

@ Isaksen, A. (2004): "Knowledge-based clusters and urban location: the clustering of software consultancy in Oslo". Urban Studies, vol. 41, 5-6, pp. 1157-1174. 17s.

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6. THE ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD PRODUCTION

@ Christiansen, E. A. N. (2013) Negative externalities of food production: discourses on the contested Norwegian aquaculture industry. Journal of Political Ecology (20): 180-198. 18s.

@ Mansfield, B. (2011): Is Fish Health Food or Poison? Farmed Fish and the Material Production of UN/Healthy Nature. Antipode 43 (2), pp. 413-434. 21s.

@ Marsden, T, Banks, J. and Bristow, G. 2002: "The social management of rural nature: understanding agrarian-based rural development". Environment and Planning A, 34, 809-825. 16s.

* Morgan, K et al. (2006): "Networks, Conventions and Regions: Theorizing ‘Worlds of Food’." In Morgan et. al Worlds of food. Place, Power and Provenance in the Food Chain. Oxford, Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies. Chapter 1.  7-25. 18s.

@ Van der Ploeg, J.D. (2002) High quality products and regional specialties,: a promising trajectory  for endogenous and sustainable development.  Paper presented at the international conference “The future of rural policy”, OECD, Siena, Italy. 10-12 July. 12s.

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7.  THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

* Benjaminsen, T. A. (2011):  A Critical Political Ecology of Population Growth, Markets and Land in Africa. In: Kjosavik D. J. & Vedeld p. (eds) The Political Economy of Environment and Development in a Globalised World. Exploring the frontiers, pp. 257 – 276. 19s.

@ Ostrom, E. et al., (1999): “Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. Science New Series, 284 (5412), pp. 278-282.  4s.

 

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Totalt  717s.

 

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