Economic Geography. Places, Networks and Flows * Andrew Wood and Susan Roberts
这是一本经济地理学教材，旨在帮助读者理解当代经济地理、社会经济与空间不均衡，并认识经济地理学作为一门学科的知识体系。
If the proliferation of textbooks for students is a marker of the vitality of an academic discipline, then these are happy days for economic geography. A new addition to the growing pool of undergraduate texts in English language has now been provided by Andrew Wood and Susan Roberts, both based at the University of Kentucky, one of the economic geography teaching and research strongholds in the USA. The authors have two main aims they want this book to achieve, namely for the reader to gain insights into contemporary economic geographies, socio-economic and spatial unevenness and to gain an understanding of economic geography as an academic (sub)discipline as well as a distinct body of knowledge. As they emphasize in their introduction, three main themes are meant to provide guidance for this learning journey: first, a focus on the relationship between geographic fixity and mobility, i.e. the spaces of places and the spaces of flows; second, the analysis of relationships between structure and agency, strategies, identities and networks; and third, the investigation of the relationship between economic processes and practices at different geographical scales. This trinity of themes forms the backbone of the text and—although difficult to maintain sometimes—is used throughout the book to position specific topics within the bigger picture of economic-geographical reasoning.