Table of contents:
Part 1 Somewhere between explanation and the condition of postmodernity: towards a post-prefixed economic geography? Part 2 Essentialism and rationalism in economic geography: place, space and theories of economic value - context and essentialism in economic geography; rationality and relativism - an interpretive review of the rational choice postulate in economic geography. Part 3 Mathematical models, metaphors and muddles: encountering Edinburgh - economic geography and the sociology of scientific knowledge; metaphors and conversations in economic geography - Richard Rorty and the gravity model; probable writing - Derrida, deconstruction and the quantitative revolution in economic geography. Part 4 Three exemplars: the mask of Janus - looking toward formalism and contextualism with Piero Saffra; Harold A. Innis - local hero; Lukermann on location.
This text presents a systematic application of postmodernism to economic geography. It integrates a review of economic geography with innovative work from philosophy and social science, clarifying ideas and demonstrations relevant to their field. The work draws together a number of poststructuralist writers, including Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty, with such influential economists as Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Resnick.
This text presents a systematic application of postmodernism to economic geography. It integrates a review of economic geography with innovative work from philosophy and social science, clarifying ideas relevant to their field.
Part 1 Somewhere between explanation and the condition of postmodernity: towards a post-prefixed economic geography? Part 2 Essentialism and rationalism in economic geography: place, space and theories of economic value - context and essentialism in economic geography; rationality and relativism - an interpretive review of the rational choice postulate in economic geography. Part 3 Mathematical models, metaphors and muddles: encountering Edinburgh - economic geography and the sociology of scientific knowledge; metaphors and conversations in economic geography - Richard Rorty and the gravity model; probable writing - Derrida, deconstruction and the quantitative revolution in economic geography. Part 4 Three exemplars: the mask of Janus - looking toward formalism and contextualism with Piero Saffra; Harold A. Innis - local hero; Lukermann on location.
This text presents a systematic application of postmodernism to economic geography. It integrates a review of economic geography with innovative work from philosophy and social science, clarifying ideas and demonstrations relevant to their field. The work draws together a number of poststructuralist writers, including Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty, with such influential economists as Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Resnick.
This text presents a systematic application of postmodernism to economic geography. It integrates a review of economic geography with innovative work from philosophy and social science, clarifying ideas relevant to their field.