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Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on April 2, 2008
Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(4):581-583; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbn011
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Economic geography: a contemporary introduction

Neil Coe, Philip Kelly and Henry Yeung

Economic geography: a contemporary introduction
Neil Coe, Philip Kelly and Henry Yeung Oxford, UK; Malden, MA, USA; and Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Blackwell, 2007. xxvi + 426 pp. ISBN-10 1405132191

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Over the course of the last 15 years, as economic geography has undergone successive phases of self-conscious reinvention, renewal and change, there has resulted a proliferation of readers, companions, handbooks and compendiums of economic geography, each seeking to document and distil the current state(s) of the art within the subdiscipline. Within this context, the publication of yet another reader—in this case by Neil Coe, Phil Kelly and Henry Yeung—might at first seem like overkill, not least for cash-strapped students and college libraries already presented with a diverse array of possibilities for purchase. However, in the midst of this crowded marketplace, Coe et al.'s (2007) contribution stands out as a fundamentally and refreshingly different type of reader in its approach, style and rationale. At its heart, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Al James

The City Centre, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS, UK


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