Economic Geography: Capitalism, Globalization, and Landscapes

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This core text on economic geography from acclaimed scholar Barney Warf provides students an accessible, balanced, and concise overview of why location matters in business and economics. Warf puts capitalism in historical and contextual perspective and examines producers and industry as well as consumption.

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Barney Warf is professor of geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography. He has studied a range of topics, such as producer services, the internet, fiber optics, offshore banking, military spending, political geography, and corruption. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited ten books, three encyclopedias, 50 book chapters and more than 110 refereed journal articles. Currently, he serves as editor of The Professional Geographer, co-editor of Growth and Change, and editor-in-chief for geography for Oxford Bibliographies On-Line.