Towards a ‘Newer’ Economic Geography? Injecting Finance and Financialisation into Economic Geographies
Sokol, M. (2013), ‘Towards a “newer” economic geography? Injecting finance and finacialization into economic geographies’. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 501–515.
15 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2015
Date Written: August 5, 2013
Abstract
This paper argues that the ongoing financial and economic crisis creates an opportunity for economic geography to move to a centre stage of academic debates about the nature of contemporary capitalism. Such a ‘newer’ economic geography needs to start by injecting finance and financialisation into conceptualisations of economies and their uneven geographies and by re-engaging with the issues of value(s), value flows and circuits of value. The paper highlights one particular aspect of circuits of value that takes a form of credit-debt relationship.
Keywords: economic geography, finance, financialisation, crisis, credit-debt relationship, uneven development
JEL Classification: G01, G10, G20, P10
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