The Capitalist Space Economy

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The Capitalist Space Economy is written by Eric Sheppard and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317602250 (ISBN 10) and 9781317602255 (ISBN 13).

Representing an innovative approach to the analysis of the economic geography of capitalism, this stimulating book develops an analytical political economic framework. Part 1 provides an introductory overvi9ew fo some of the fundamental debates about price, profits and value in economics which underlie the analytical political economy approach. Part 2 analyzes the special role of space and transportation in commodity production and the spatial organization of the economy that this implies. Parts 3 and 4 examine the conflicting goals and actions of different social clases and individuals and how these are complicated by space, concluding with a detailed analysis of capitalists’ strategiesas they cope with uncertainty and disequilibrium.