Neil Coe & Andrew Jones 
The Economic Geography of the UK [EPUB ebook] 

With the UK still facing the repercussions of the 2007 economic downturn, Coe and Jones′ text is a timely, engaging discussion of the key issues facing the UK economy from a purely geographical perspective, written by some of the leading academics in the field.

With pedagogical features to facilitate learning, including further reading and chapter aims, the text explores the complex connections that constitute the UK economy including the city and finance, the uneven development of the UK, the UK economy′s links to the European Union and its wider ties to the global economy.

Written for geography students studying modules on economic geography and the human geography of the UK, the text is a vibrantly written, easy-to-understand analysis of the current and future challenges that face the contemporary UK economy.

Includes a preface by Doreen Massey.

Table of Content

Preface – Doreen Massey

Part I: Setting the Scene: Uneven Economic Geographies

Introduction: the shifting geographies of the UK economy? – Neil M. Coe and Andrew Jones

Persistent North/South divides – Danny Dorling

Uneven regional growth: the geographies of boom and bust under New Labour – Ron Martin

Part II: Landscapes of Power, Inequality and Finance

The City and finance: changing landscapes of power: – John Allen

Banking on financial services – Shaun French, Karen Lai and Andrew Leyshon

The geography of UK government finance: tax, spend and what lies between – Steve Musson

State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK – Andy Pike and John Tomaney

Housing and the UK economy – Chris Hamnett

The geographical pension gap: understanding patterns of inequality in UK occupational pensions – Kendra Strauss and Gordon Clark

Part III: Landscapes of Production and Circulation

The changing geographies of manufacturing and work: Made in the UK? – Ray Hudson

Business services: driving the knowledge-based economy in the UK? – James Faulconbridge

Agricultural restructuring and changing food networks in the UK – Brian Ilbery and Damian Maye

The shifting geographies of UK retailing – Neil Wrigley

UK energy dilemmas: energy security and climate change – Michael Bradshaw

Part IV: Landscapes of Social Change

Restructuring UK labour markets: work and employment in the twenty-first century – Kevin Ward

New migrant divisions of labour – Jane Wills, Cathy Mc Ilwaine, Kavita Datta, Jon May, Joanna Herbert and Yara Evans

The UK economy and the transformation of East Central Europe – Alison Stenning

Coda: The UK Economy in an era of globalization – Neil M. Coe and Andrew Jones

About the author

Professor Andrew Jones is an inter-disciplinary social scientist with a background as an economic geographer. He is also Dean of Arts and Social Sciences at City University London.