Economic Geography: Resource Use, Locational Choices, and Regional Specialization in the Global Economy |
Contents
Global Disparities and the New International | 10 |
THE CHANGING NATURE OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY | 17 |
1930s to the 1960s | 26 |
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Africa agricultural American average basic Canada capital centers central market century Chapter coal commercial commodities competition concentrated consumers consumption coun crops curve decline demand developing countries distance duction dustry economic geography economies of scale effects energy environment example exports factors factors of production farm farmers Figure firms foreign Germany global growing Heckscher-Ohlin theory hinterland imports income increase Industrial Revolution innovations inputs integration investment iron Japan land LDCs less-developed countries major manufacturing market area ment million mixed strategy MNEs nomic OPEC operations organization output pattern percent plants population densities population growth problems production quantities raw materials regions relatively rent result rise robot Source spatial steel strategy supply tariff textile theory Thünen tion towns trade theory transportation costs types U.S. dollars United Kingdom United Nations urban USSR variety Western Europe wheat