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Regional economic geography examines the economic conditions of particular regions or countries of the world. It deals with economic regionalization as well as local economic development. Historical economic geography examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it examines how centers of population ...
Articles related to economic geography, the subfield of human geography which studies economic activity. It can also be considered a subfield or method in economics . Subcategories
Longman's School Geography for South Africa (1891) Gazetteer of the World (1895) published by Longman; Europe (2 vols) (1899) Junior School Geography; Longman's School Geography for India and Ceylon; The World As It Is: A Popular Account of Peoples and Countries of the Earth; A Smaller Commercial Geography; Longman's School Geography for ...
Economic historians Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff argue that factor endowments greatly affected "institutional" development in the Americas, by which they mean the tendency to more free (democratic, free market) or unfree (dictatorial, economically restrictive) regimes.
Regional economics is a sub-discipline of economics and is often regarded as one of the fields of the social sciences.It addresses the economic aspect of the regional problems that are spatially analyzable so that theoretical or policy implications can be the derived with respect to regions whose geographical scope ranges from local to global areas.
Historical economic geography examines the history and development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data, it examines how centers of population and economic activity shift, what patterns of regional specialization and localization evolve over time and what factors explain these changes.
Scholars such as Jeffrey D. Sachs argue that geography has a key role in the development of a nation's economic growth. [ 2 ] For instance, nations that reside along coastal regions, or those who have access to a nearby water source, are more plentiful and able to trade with neighboring nations.
Theoretical economic geography is a branch of economic geography concerned with understanding the spatial distribution of economic activity. Theoretical techniques in this branch of economics explain a number of phenomena such as: [1] The clustering of people and businesses into cities.