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Fred K. Schaefer's article "Exceptionalism in geography: A Methodological Examination", published in the American journal Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and his critique of regionalism, made a large impact on the field: the article became a rallying point for the younger generation of economic geographers who were intent on ...
Economic Geography, founded and published quarterly at Clark University since 1925, is the leading English-language journal devoted to the study of economic geography and is widely read by academics and professionals around the world . Highlighting the publication of theoretically-based empirical articles and case studies of significant ...
The Journal of Economic Geography is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press covering all aspects of economic geography, including the intersection between economics and geography.
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.
Location theory has become an integral part of economic geography, regional science, and spatial economics. Location theory addresses questions of what economic activities are located where and why. Location theory or microeconomic theory generally assumes that agents act in their own self-interest. Firms thus choose locations that maximize ...
Geography and wealth have long been perceived as correlated attributes of nations. [1] Scholars such as Jeffrey D. Sachs argue that geography has a key role in the development of a nation's economic growth.
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.
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.