ABSTRACT

The author provides a treatment of world economic geography as a whole. He sets out the historical context of the modern world along with the principal philosophies that have shaped our study of it, and identifies the importance of the biophysical environment as well as cultural and political settings for economic activity.

chapter 1|11 pages

The global economy: orientations

chapter 2|26 pages

Society, the economy and the environment

chapter 4|36 pages

The evolution of the modern world-economy

chapter 5|15 pages

States and the global economic system

chapter 9|25 pages

Industrialized state-socialist economies

chapter 11|25 pages

Challenges of Third World development

chapter 12|16 pages

Prospects for the global economy