Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to be the perfect basis for understanding the profound economic and geographical changes of the last two decades, and on which also to build a new kind of industrial geography. Issues covered include: the retheorization of the geography of industrial districts; the analysis of institutional 'thickness', and the economic-geographical effects of institutional rigidity and sclerosis; the economic-geographical consequences of new regulatory bodies and policies; and the geographically situated character of institutions and regulatory frameworks, and the effects of separating them from their originating context; the development of new strategies for achieving more equitable forms of regional development.
Author(s): Trevor Barnes
Edition: 1
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 352
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 13
Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 22
1 Industrial Geography, Institutional Economics And Innis......Page 24
2 The Resurgence Of Regional Economics......Page 46
3 The Co-operative Advantage Of Regions......Page 77
4 Reversing Attrition?......Page 97
5 Sticky Places In Slippery Space......Page 121
6 Harnessing The Region......Page 150
7 Rules As Resources......Page 178
8 Continentalism In An Era Of Globalization......Page 199
9 The Firm In The Region And The Region In The Firm......Page 228
10 The Production Of Industrial Processes......Page 248
11 Does Nationality Still Matter?......Page 261
12 Capital And Creative Destruction......Page 288
13 Institutional Issues For The European Regions......Page 315
Index......Page 338
