Remaking regional economies: power, labor, and firm strategies in the knowledge economy /
by Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark
- Oxon: Routledge, 2009.
- xi,:176p.
- routledge studies in economic geography .
Section 1: Shaping the Regional Project -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory -- 3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project -- Section 2: Case Studies -- 4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry -- 5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition -- Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies -- 6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) -- 7. The Learning Region Disconnect -- 8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution
Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the character of the global economy. This book offers a critique of the 'new regionalism' and covers the 'regional question', including its concerns with equity and uneven development. It challenges to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy.