Friday August 24
Globalization and Uneven Development
What is Geography?
Social Process/Spatial Process and Spatial Form/Spatial Structure (pp. 4-5)
Where something occurs shapes how it occurs.
Spatial Scale
What is Economic Geography?
- Diversity of Approaches
What is Globalization?
Examples of Globalization
- Culture
- Consumption
- Telecommunications
- Economy
- Environment
Uneven Development
- Ethics of mass poverty (pg. 23)
- Ways of describing wealth and poverty
- First, Second, and third Worlds
- Core-Periphery
- Is is really possible to speak of a single developing world?
- Causes of uneven development?
Assignment for Monday
- Read pp. 24-29, 158-164 Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts: capitalism, command economy, traditional economy, political economy, opportunity cost, GIS, Factors of Location (Labor, human capital, land, fixed capital, liquid capital, managerial and Technical Skills)
