Geog/ID 365 Graduate Seminar in Economic Geography II: Fundamentals and Current Debates PART II

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1 Geog/ID 365 Graduate Seminar in Economic Geography II: Fundamentals and Current Debates PART II FALL, 2008 Instructor: Yuko Aoyama Jefferson Academic Center 212 Tel: Course Description The seminar is Part II of the two-semester long seminar on Economic Geography. The two-part series is designed to provide a solid foundation in the historical and contemporary literature in economic geography. Part I is devoted to the historical literature on economic thought that have significance relevance to economic geography, and Part II mainly deals with contemporary literature and most recent debates. Readings will relate mainly to Anglo-American World, but pertinent material on other countries will also be covered in some of the readings and discussions. The course demands a heavy reading load and active class participation (50% of grade). Each week, we will select at least three articles from the weekly reading list in the syllabus and discuss/critique the substance, theoretical orientations, intellectual trajectory, implicit assumptions, and methodological choice. Students are required to conduct a presentation on the readings of their choice. In addition, two short essays are required addressing themes in the course (50% of grade). Students are expected to do the required readings prior to attending a lecture and are urged to bring up opposing points of view in class. All required readings are found in CICADA. Some of the readings can be skimmed, others should be read with care. Guidance on this will be provided as the semester proceeds. Course Outline: Week 1: No class Week 2: 9/8: Introduction to Economic Geography: A Historical Overview 1

2 Week 3: 9/15: Regional Disparity, Regional Development Week 4: 9/22: Spatial Competition, Deindustrialization, and Anglo-American Economic Crisis Week 5: 9/29: Taylorism, Fordism and the French Regulation School Week 6: 10/6: Post-Fordism and Flexible Specialization Week 7: 10/13: Columbus Day. NO CLASS Week 8: 10/20: Industrial Districts and Clusters Week 9: 10/27: Technological Paradigms: Path Dependence, Learning-by-doing, and Lock-in. Week 10: 11/3: Institutional Paradigms: Institutions, Norms, and Tacit Knowledge [First Essay Due in Class] Week 11: 11/10: Embeddedness, Social Networks, and Face-to-Face Contacts Week 12: 11/17: Shifting Scale to the Global: Chains, Flows, and Limits Week 13: 11/24: Capitalism and Neoliberalism Week 14: 12/1: New Economic Geographies: Cultural Turn, Relational Turn and Geographical Economics Week 15a: 12/8: Methodological Debates in Economic Geography Week 15b: 12/9 [TUESDAY but running Monday Schedule]: Topics in Economic Geography 12/16: [Second Essay Due at 4pm] Readings: Week 1: No Class Week 2: Introduction to Economic Geography: A Historical Overview Trevor J. Barnes. Inventing Anglo-American Economic Geography, Chapter in Sheppard and Barnes (eds.), A Companion to Economic Geography. New York: Blackwell, pp

3 Allen Scott, 2000, Economic Geography: The Great half-century. Cambridge Journal of Economics Vol.24, Ron Martin. (1994) Economic Theory and Human Geography. In Gregory, Martin and Smith (eds.), Human Geography: Society, Space, and Social Science. University of Minnesota Press. Arnoud Lagendijk. (2006) Learning from Conceptual Flow in Regional Studies: Framing Present Debates, Unbracketing Past Debates. Regional Studies 40,4 : Keith Chapman and David F. Walker. Industrial Location. 2 nd Edition. Cambridge University Press Chapter 1: Manufacturing and Manufacturers Chapter 2: Approaches to the Study of Industrial Location. Week 3: Regional Disparity, Regional Development Stuart Holland. Capital Versus the Regions. New York: St. Martin s Press, Chapter 1: Theories of Regional Self-Balance. Chapter 2: Theories of Regional Imbalance. Chapter 6: Structure versus the Regions. Douglass C. North. Location Theory and Regional Economic Growth. The Journal of Political Economy 63, 3 (June 1955): Charles M. Tiebout. Exports and Regional Economic Growth. The Journal of Political Economy 64, 2 (April, 1956): Douglass C. North. A Reply. The Journal of Political Economy 64, 2 (April 1956): Charles M. Tiebout. Exports and Regional Economic Growth: Rejoinder. The Journal of Political Economy 64, 2 (April, 1956): 169. Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production. Chapter 2: Social Relations and Spatial Organization Chapter 3: Uneven Development and Spatial Structures Week 4: Spatial Competition, Deindustrialization, and Anglo-American Economic Crisis Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison (1982). Managerial Capitalism and Economic Crisis, Chapter in Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, 3

4 Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industries. New York: Basic Books Michael Storper and Richard Walker. Capitalist Imperative. New York: Basil Blackwell, Chapter 1: The Inconstant Geography of Capitalism Chapter 2: Industrialization as Disequilibrium Growth Vernon, Raymond (1966). International investment and International trade in the product cycle. Quarterly Journal of Economic 80: Robert Norton and John Rees (1979) The Product Cycle and the Spatial Decentralization of American Manufacturing. Regional Studies 13: Frobel, F., J. Heinrichs and O. Kreye (1980). The New International Division of Labour: Structural Unemployment in Industrialised Countries and Industrialisation in developing Countries. Cambridge University Press. (Optional) Cohen, S.S., and J. Zysman (1989). Linkage, Wealth and Power. Chapter in Manufacturing Matters: The myth of the post-industrial economy. New York: Basic Books, pp Sayer, A. and R. A. Walker. The Service Economy. Chapter in The New Social Economy. New York: Blackwell, Michael Piore and Charles Sabel The Second Industrial Divide. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 7: The Mass-Production Economy in Crisis Week 5: Taylorism, Fordism and the French Regulation School Michael Best. The New Competition. Harvard University Press Chapter 1: The American System of Manufacture. Chapter 2: Big Business: Mass Production and Managerial Hierarchy. Alain Lipietz. New Tendencies in the International division of labor: regimes of accumulation and modes of regulation. Chapter 2 of A.J. Scott and M. Storper (eds.), Production, Work, Territory: The Geographic Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism. Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin. Michel Aglietta. A Theory of Capitalist Regulation Chapter 2: Transformations in the Labour Process. Mick Dunford. Theories of Regulation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 8 (1990)

5 Bob Jessop (1990) Regulation Theories in Retrospect and Prospect. Economy and Society, 19 (2). pp S.R.H. Jones. Transaction Costs and the Theory of the Firm: The Scope and Limitations of the New Institutional Approach. Chapter in Casson and Rose (eds.), 1997, Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business. London: Frank Cass. Week 6: Post-Fordism and Flexible Specialization Michael Piore and Charles Sabel The Second Industrial Divide. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 10: Possibilities for Prosperity: International Keynesianism and Flexible Specialization Sabel, Charles and Zeitlin, Jonathan, 1985, Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technologies in 19 th Century Industrialization. Past and Present 105,1: Erica Schoenberger. From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation: Technology, Competitive Strategies, and international location. Environment and Planning D Vol. 6 (1988): Meric Gertler. The Limits to Flexibility: Comments on the Post-Fordist vision of production and its geography. Transactions: Institute of British Geographers 13 (1988) Erica Schoenberger. Thinking about flexibility: a response to Gertler. Transactions: Institute of British Geographers 14 (1989): Meric Gertler. Resurrecting flexibility?: A reply to Schoenberger. Transactions: Institute of British Geographers 14 (1989): Bennett Harrison. Lean and Mean: The Changing Landscape of Corporate Power in the Age of Flexibility. New York: Basic Books, Chapter 9: The Dark Side of Flexible Specialization. James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. The Machine that Changed the World. HarperPerennial Chapter 3: The Rise of Lean Production. Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin. Flexible Specialization versus Post-Fordism. Week 7: Columbus Day. No Class 5

6 Week 8: Industrial Districts and Clusters Bennett Harrison. Industrial Districts: Old Wine in New Bottles. Regional Studies 26 No.5 (October, 1992): Sebastiano Brusco (1982). The Emilian model: productive decentralisation and social integration" Cambridge Journal of Economics, 6, 2: Margherita Russo (1985). Technical change and the industrial district: The role of interfirm relations in the growth and transformation of ceramic tile production in Italy. Research Policy 14: Storper, M., and S. Christopherson Flexible Specialization and Regional Industrial Agglomerations - the Case of the United-States Motion-Picture Industry. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77 (1): Allen J. Scott (1988) New Industrial Spaces. London: Pion. Chapter 3: The organization of industrial production Ann Markusen Sticky Places in Slippery Space: A Typology of Industrial Districts. Economic Geography 72 (1996): Porter, Michael E Location, Competition, and Economic Development: Local clusters in a global economy. Economic Development Quarterly 14 No.1 (February 2000): Allen J. Scott. The Geographical Foundations of Industrial Performance. Chapter in Chandler, Hagstrom and Solvell (eds.), The Dynamic Firm: The role of technology, strategy, organization, and regions (1999), Oxford University Press, pp Pinch, Stephen, et al (2003). From Industrial Districts to Knowledge Clusters : A model of knowledge dissemination and competitive advantage in industrial agglomerations. Journal of Economic Geography 3: Ron Martin and Peter Sunley, Deconstructing clusters : Chaotic concept or policy panacea? Journal of Economic Geography 3: 5-35 Week 9: Technological Paradigms: Path Dependence, Learning-by-doing, and Lock-in. Peter Hall and Paschal Preston. The Long-wave debate. Chapter in The Carrier Wave. Unwin Hyman,

7 Dosi, Giovanni. Technological paradigms and technological trajectories: A suggested interpretation of the determinants and directions of technical change. Research Policy 11 (1982): David, Paul A Clio and the Economics of QWERTY. American Economic Review 75: Brian Arthur. "Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns, and Lock-In by Historical Events." Economic Journal 99 No.394 (March 1989): Christopher Freeman. The National System of Innovation in historical perspective. Cambridge Journal of Economics 19 (1995):5-24. David L. Rigby Geography and Technological Change, Chapter in Sheppard and Barnes, A Companion to Economic Geography. New York: Blackwell, pp Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter, Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics Journal of Economic Perspectives 16, 2, (Spring 2002): Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter, Neoclassical vs. Evolutionary Theories of Economic Growth: Critique and Prospectus. The Economic Journal (December, 1974): Boschma, Ron A. and Jan G. Lambooy. Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography. Journal of Evolutionary Economics 9 (1999): K.E. Boulding (1991). What is Evolutionary Economics? Journal of Evolutional Economics 1 (1991): Michael Storper. The Regional World. New York: Guilford, Chapter 3: Evolution of Regional Specificities. Week 10: Institutional Paradigms: Institutions, Norms, and Tacit Knowledge Oliver Williamson (1981). The Modern Corporation: Origins, Evolution, Attributes. Journal of Economic Literature 19 (December): Ron Martin Institutional Approaches in Economic Geography, Chapter in Sheppard and Barnes (eds.), A Companion to Economic Geography. New York: Blackwell, pp Ash Amin. An Institutional Perspective on Regional Economic Development. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 23 No.2 (1999):

8 Michael Storper Conventions and institutions: rethinking problems of state reform, governance and policy. Chapter in L. Burlamaqui, A.C. Castro and H-J Chang (eds.), Institutions and the Role of the State. Edward Elgar, pp Douglas North. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge University Press, [Optional-- Goddard] Richard Nelson (2008). What enables rapid economic progress: What are the needed institutions? Research Policy 37: Gertler, M (1995) Being there': proximity, organization, and culture in the development and adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies. Economic Geography 71(1): 1-26 Gertler, Meric Tacit Knowledge and the Economic Geography of Context, or the undefinable tacitness of being (there) Journal of Economic Geography Michael Storper. The Regional World. New York: Guilford, Chapter 6: Regional Worlds of Production Nonaka, I., H. Takeuchi (1995). The Knowledge-creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. Oxford University Press, 1995 (Optional: available from Goddard and Google Books) Week 11: Embeddedness, Social Networks, and Face-to-Face Contacts Granovetter, Mark. Economic Action and Social Structure: The problem of Embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology 91 No. 3 (1985): Granovetter, Mark The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology 78 No.6: Hess, M 'Spatial' relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embeddedness. Progress in Human Geography 28 (2): AnnaLee Saxenian. Regional Networks and Innovation in Silicon Valley and Route 128. Chapter in Acs (ed.), Regional Innovation, Knowledge and Global Change. London: Pinter, Storper, M., and A. J. Venables Buzz: face-to-face contact and the urban economy. Journal of Economic Geography 4 (4):

9 Bathelt, H., A. Malmberg, and P. Maskell Clusters and knowledge: local buzz, global pipelines and the process of knowledge creation. Progress in Human Geography 28 (1): Peck, J Economic sociologies in space.. Economic Geography 81 (2): Grabher, G The project ecology of advertising: Tasks, talents and teams. Regional Studies 36 (3): Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet (2004). Practices of Knowing. Chapter in Architecture of Knowledge: Firms, capabilities, and communities. Oxford University Press. Maskell, P., and A. Malmberg Localised learning and industrial competitiveness. Cambridge Journal of Economics 23 (2): Week 12: Shifting Scale to the Global: Chains, Flows, and Limits Manuel Castells. The Space of Flows. The Rise of the Network Society. London: Blackwell, Gary Gereffi Global Commodity Chains: New Forms of Coordination and Control Among Nations and Firms in International Industries. Competition & Change 1, 4 (1996): Peter Dicken, Phil Kelly, Kris Olds, Henry Wai-chung Yeung. Chains and Networks, Territories and Scales: towards a relational framework of analyzing the global economy. Global Networks 1, 2 (2001): Amin, A., and N. Thrift Neo-Marshallian Nodes in Global Networks. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16: Michael Storper. The Regional World. New York: Guilford, Chapter 8: Limits to Globalization: Technology Districts and International Trade. Henry Wai-chung Yeung Limits to Globalization Theory: A Geographic Perspective on Global Economic Change. Economic Geography 78 3 (July) : Peter Dicken (2004) Geographers and globalization : (yet) another missed boat? Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 29, 1 (March): Grant, R The Geography of International Trade. Progress in Human Geography 18 (3):

10 Bob Jessop. Reflections on Globalization and its (il)logic(s). Chapter in Olds, et al, (eds.), Globalization and the Asia Pacific: Contested Territories. London: Routledge. Week 13: Capitalism and Neoliberalism Andre Gunder Frank. Introduction to Real World History vs. Eurocentric Social Theory. In Re-orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. University of California Press, James Blaut, History Inside Out. Chapter 1 in The Colonizer s Model of the World. New York: Guilford, Gordon Clark and Michael Dear (1981). State in Capitalism and the Capitalist State. Chapter in M. Dear and A.J. Scott, Urbanization and Urban Planning in the Capitalist Society. Routledge. Hall, P.A. and D. Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism: The institutional foundation of comparative advantage. Oxford University Press. Peck, J., and N. Theodore Variegated capitalism. Progress in Human Geography 31 (6): J.K. Gibson-Graham. (1996). The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Felminist Critique of Political Economy. University of Minnesota Press. Chapter 4: How do we get out of this Capitalist Place? Chapter 6: Querying Globalization. David Harvey Neo-Liberalism as Creative Destruction. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 88 (2): Peck, J., and A. Tickell Neoliberalizing Space. Antipode 34 (3): Week 14: New Economic Geographies: Cultural Turn, Relational Turn and Geographical Economics The Cultural Turn: Trevor J. Barnes. Retheorizing Economic Geography: From the Quantitative Revolution to the Cultural Turn. Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol 91 No.3 (September 2001): Nigel Thrift. Pandora s Box? Cultural Geographies of Economies. In Gordon, et.al, Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography. Chapter 34, pp

11 Keith Bassett (1999). Is there progress in human geography? The problem of progress in the light of recent work in the philosophy and sociology of science. Progress in Human Geography 23 1: Relational Turn: Bathelt, H., and J. Gluckler Toward a relational economic geography. Journal of Economic Geography 3 (2): Henry Wai-chung, Y Rethinking relational economic geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 (1): Peter Sunley (2008). Relational Economic Geography: A partial understanding or a new paradigm? Economic Geography 84 (1): Geographical Economics: Paul Krugman. (1991) Geography and Trade. MIT Press. Chapters Paul Krugman. (1995) Development, Geography, and Economic Theory. MIT Press. Chapters Caterina Marchionni Geographical Economics versus Economic Geography: Toward a clarification of a dispute. Environment and Planning A Ron Martin and Peter Sunley. Paul Kurgman s Geographical Economics and Its Implications for Regional Development Theory: A Critical Assessment. Economic Geography. July 1996 v72 n3 p259 (34) Ron Martin The New Geographical Turn in Economics Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol 23, No.1: Knowing your place. Economist. March 11, Brakman, S., H. Garretsen, C. Van Marrewijk. (2001). An Introduction to Geographical Economics. Cambridge University Press. (Optional) Week 15A: Methodological Debates in Economic Geography Clark, G Stylised Facts and Close Dialogue: Methodology in Economic Geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88 (1):

12 Amin, A., and N. Thrift What Kind of Economic Theory for what Kind of Economic Geography? Antipode 32 (1):4-9. Martin, R., and P. Sunley Rethinking the "Economic" in Economic Geography: Broadening Our Vision or Losing Our Focus? Antipode 33 (2): Ettlinger, N A Relational Perspective in Economic Geography: Connecting Competitiveness with Diversity and Difference. Antipode 33 (2): Rodríguez-Pose, A Killing Economic Geography with a "Cultural Turn" Overdose. Antipode 33 (2): Michael Storper The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: From the False Promises of Marxism to the Mirage of the Cultural Turn. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Vol. 25 No.1 (March): Yeung, H. W.-c Practicing New Economic Geographies: A Methodological Examination. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93 (2): Poon, J. P. H Instrumentation rigor and practice. Environment and Planning A 39: Sheppard, E., and P. Plummer Toward engaged pluralism in geographical debate. Environment and Planning A 39: Week 15B: Special Topics in Economic Geography [TBD] This session provides an opportunity for students to bring in readings of their interest and lead discussions on how it may be linked to the literature covered in class. I will provide a supplementary reading list on topics such as MNEs, finance, consumption, work and entrepreneurship. In addition, we welcome topics in environmental economic geography, feminist geography, urban planning, labor economics, economic sociology, and political economy. 12

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