As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking,...

The concept of the city size distribution is criticized for its lack of consideration of the effects of interurban interdependencies on the growth of cities. Theoretical justifications for the rank-size relationship have the same shortcomings, and an empirical study reveals that there is little...

A Marxian model of production relations applicable to a space economy, partitioned into regions, is described. The aspatial, "Fundamental Maxian Theorem" is then extended to the regional system. It is shown that the maximum regional exploitation rate exceeds the profit rate in the aggregate...

Introducing a roundtable discussion of the World Bank's "World Development Report 2009": "Reshaping Economic Geography", this article contextualizes the report in intellectual and political terms. It reflects on the lost opportunities for, and potential limits of, engagement between the style of...

This important book explores original and alternative directions for economic geography following the revolution precipitated by the advent of so-called ‘new economic geography’ (NEG). Whilst, to some extent, the volume could be regarded as part of the inevitable creative...