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title: Economic Geography
description: This discipline explores how economic activities are distributed across the globe and how space influences production, trade, and consumption. Learners will analyze regional inequalities, globalization, and the spatial organization of industries.
category: humanities
subcategory: geography
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/economic-geography
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# Economic Geography

This discipline explores how economic activities are distributed across the globe and how space influences production, trade, and consumption. Learners will analyze regional inequalities, globalization, and the spatial organization of industries.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Courses • 5 Websites

## Websites

### 1. The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean-Paul Rodrigue's free online textbook covering transport modes, terminals, freight networks, trade corridors and urban mobility, with maps and data. Readers come away able to explain how transport costs and infrastructure shape the location of economic activity.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://transportgeography.org

**Tags:** transport-geography, logistics, trade-networks, urban-mobility, textbook

### 2. aag.org/topics/economic-geography

AAG's Economic Geography topic page introduces the field with core concepts and definitions and links to Key topics like globalization, regional development, and urban economics. It also provides access to related publications, teaching resources, and professional opportunities from the American Association of Geographers.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://aag.org/topics/economic-geography

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, geography

### 3. economicgeography.org

EconomicGeography.org is a scholarly resource hub focused on the study of how economic processes shape places. It offers research articles, teaching materials, case studies, and updates on events and opportunities in economic geography.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://economicgeography.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, geography

### 4. Regional Studies Association

Website of the Regional Studies Association, a learned society for research on sub-national regional development, planning and governance. Lists its journals, policy briefs, conference listings and research networks, giving learners an entry point to current scholarship in regional and economic geography.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://regionalstudies.org

**Tags:** regional-development, regional-studies, economic-geography, spatial-planning, learned-society

### 5. globalvaluechains.org

GlobalValueChains.org is a research portal focused on global value chains. It hosts scholarly articles, datasets, case studies, and teaching resources that analyze how production networks span borders and impact economies.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://globalvaluechains.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, geography

## Books

### 1. Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours

**Author:** Peter Dicken

Dicken maps global production networks: how transnational corporations, states, and technology reorganize industries such as autos, electronics, and clothing across regions. Readers finish able to trace where value is created in a globalized economy and why.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1412929555?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, geography

### 2. The New Geography of Jobs

**Author:** Enrico Moretti

Moretti argues that innovation hubs generate local multiplier effects, so a region's mix of industries determines wages far beyond the tech sector. Explains the widening divergence between American cities and what policies actually move jobs.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0544028058?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, geography

### 3. Economic Geography

**Author:** Neil M. Coe, Philip F. Kelly, Henry W. C. Yeung

Undergraduate textbook introducing how capitalism organizes space: labour, firms, commodity chains, states, consumption, and uneven development. Working through it gives a vocabulary for analysing why economic activity concentrates in particular places.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1405132191?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, geography

## Courses

### 1. Globalization and Economic Space

Is globalization a new phenomenon or a cyclical pattern throughout human history?

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.edx.org/learn/globalization/sdg-academy-globalization-past-and-future

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, geography

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