The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth

by Richard Walker and Michael Storper

Book Overview

Why do cities, regions and nations experience periods of pronounced growth and decline? Why have the world's centres of economic activity been continually reshuffled as the industrial revolution has spread to new parts of the globe? This book demonstrates that under capitalism, the process central to growth is geographical industrialization, and that the creation and use of territory is fundamental to economic development. In doing so, they make new...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631165339
• ISBN13: 9780631165330
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"