Assignment for Today
Read Coe pp. 59-72 (read ahead Coe 72-86 if you wish). Come to class with a basic understanding of the following concepts and ideas: Traditional explanations for uneven development, structural explanations, Wealth, Value, Surplus Value, capitalism, means of production, technological fix, crisis of overaccumulation, production of spaces under capitalism, gentrification, spatial fix, see-saw motion of capital, spatial divisions of labor, new international division of labor, Regulation theory
Why is economic growth and development so uneven?
Traditional Answers
Examples:
Geographical Approach
Circuit of Capital
Contradictions of Capitalism
Crisis of Overaccumulation
The necessity of space for capitalism
Assignment for Next Time
Read Coe pp. 72-86 and come to class with an understanding of the following concepts and ideas: how capitalism produces spaces at multiple scales, new international division of labor, spatial fix, creative destruction, social spaces, spatial division of labor, dependency
