Originally published: 2000.

Economic geography : transition and growth -- Economic geography : the great half century -- pt. 1. Conceptual perspectives: Section 1. Mapping the territory: Where in the world is the new economic geography? -- Doing regulation -- Section 2. Analytical frameworks: The new economics of urban and regional growth -- Geography or economics? : conceptions of space, time, interdependence, and agency -- pt. 2. Global economic intergration: Section 3. Investment and trade: The geography of international investment -- Globalization, localization, and trade -- Section 4. Development and underdevelopment: -- Geography and economic development -- The great tablecloth : bread and butter politics and the political economy of food and poverty -- Section 5. Finance capital: The regulation of international finance -- Finance and localities -- pt. 3. Corporate structure, strategy, and location: Section 6. Competition, location, and strategy: Locations, clusters, and company strategy -- Places and flows : situating international investment -- The globalization of retail capital : themes for economic geography -- Section 7. Remaking the corporation: The management of time and space -- Corporate form and spatial form -- pt. 4. The geography of innovation: Section 8. National and localized learning: National states and economic development: from national systems of production to national systems of knowledge creation and learning -- Location and Innovation : the new economic geography of innovation, spillover, and agglomeration -- Restructuring and innovation in long term regional change -- Section 9. Districts and regional innovation systems: Industrial districts : the contributions of Marshall and beyond -- Innovation networks, regions, and globalization -- pt. 5. Localities and difference: Section 10. Labour and locality: Local labour markets : their nature, performance, and regulation -- Firms, workers, and the geographic concentration of economic activity -- Section 11. Gender, race, and place: Feminists rethink the economic : the economics of gender/the gender of economics -- Racial and economic segregation in US metropolitan areas -- Section 12. Communities, politics, and power: Elite power, global forces, and the political economy of global development -- Economic geography in practice : local economic development policy -- pt. 6. Global transformations: Section 13. Environment and regulation: Markets and environmental quality -- Environmental innovation and regulation -- Section 14. Trade and investment blocs: Spontaneous integration in Japan and East Asia : development crisis and beyond -- Regional economic integration in North America -- The EU as more than a triad market for national economic spaces -- pt. 7. CODA: Pandora's Box? -- Cultural geographies of economies.