Today's Assignment
Read Coe pp. 1-11, Box 1.2. Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas: the importance of thinking about how we understand economic processes, assumptions in traditional economics (universalism, economic rationality, competition and equilibrium, scientific status of laws and principles), Major theoretical perspectives in economic geography (Location theory and the neoclassical approach, behavioral approach, Marxist political economy, new economic geography).
Read Robbins Chapter 1 Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas: political ecology, reconciliation ecology
Geographical Approaches to the Economy
- Patterns and Processes in Space (pg.6)
- Economic Geography as Environment-Economy
Relations
Assumptions in the Famine in Niger Case Study (pg. 7)
Nature as a cause of economic problems?
Traditional Economic Assumptions
Theoretical Perspectives in Geography
Assignment for Next Time
Read Coe pp. 11-30 Make sure you have a basic understanding of the following:
Space, distance, area, relative distance, , territoriality and form, location,
flows across space, unevenness as outcome of capitalism, specificity of
places, structure of society and government, scale, region, national,
local, macroregional, representations, Wall Street case. Pay attention
to the diagram on pg. 26.
