Gordon L. Clark is the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment with cross-appointments in the Said Business School and the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University. He holds a Professorial Fellowship at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His publications include Sovereign Wealth Funds (with Ashby Monk and Adam Dixon, Princeton University Press, 2013), Saving for Retirement (with Kendra Strauss and Janelle Knox-Hayes, OUP, 2012), and Managing Financial Risks (with Ashby Monky and Adam Dixon, OUP, 2009).

Maryann P Feldman is the Heninger Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina. In 2013, she was awarded with the prestigious Global Entrepreneurship Research Award from the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum and Research Institute of Industrial Economics. Her publications include Dynamic Geographies of Knowledge Creation and Innovation (co-edited with H. Bathelt and D.F. Kogler, Routledge, 2010) and Cluster Genesis (co-edited with P. Braunerhjelm, OUP, 2007).

Meric S Gertler is the President of University of Toronto, and Professor of Geography and Planning. He was also the founding co-director of the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems (PROGRIS) at the Munk School of Global Affairs. His publications include Manufacturing Culture (OUP, 2004) and Innovation and Social Learning (co-edited with David A. Wolfe, Palgrave, 2002).

Dariusz Wojcik is a Professor of Economic Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, and Fellow of St Peters College Oxford. His publications include The Global Stock Market (OUP, 2011) and Geography of Finance (with Gordon L. Clark, OUP, 2007).

Introduction, Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P Feldman, Meric S Gertler, and Dariusz Wojcik
Part 1: Grounded in Place
1. Global Prospects: The Asian Century?, Mike Berry and Benno Engels
2. Inequality in Advanced Economies, Danny Dorling
3. Income Inequality and Growing Disparity: Spatial Patterns of Inequality and the Case of the U.S., Amy Glasmeier
4. The Emerging Transformation of China's Economic Geography, Kam Wing Chan
5. Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary India, Stuart Corbridge
6. Crisis and Austerity in Action: Greece, Maria Tsampra
Part II: Conceptual Foundations
7. Economic Growth and Economic Development: Geographic Dimensions, Definition and Disparities, Maryann P. Feldman and Michael Storper
8. Heterodoxy as Orthodoxy: Prolegomenon for a Geographical Political Economy, Eric Sheppard
9. Relational Research Design in Economic Geography, Harald Bathelt and Johannes Gluckler
10. Behaviour in Context, Gordon L. Clark
11. Evolutionary Economic Geography, Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken
12. Institutions, Geography, and Economic Life, Meric S. Gertler
Part III: Innovation
13. Economic Ecosystems, Phil Auerswald and Lokesh Dani
14. How Geography Shapes-and is Shaped by-the Internet, Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein
15. Schumpeterian Customers? How Active Users Co-Create Innovations, Gernot Grabher and Oliver Ibert
16. The Geography of the Creative Industries: Theoretical Stocktaking and Empirical Illustration, Mark Lorenzen
17. Firms in Context: Internal and External Drivers of Success, Mercedes Delgado
Part IV: The Firm
18. The Logic of Agglomeration, Gilles Duranton
19. Network Geographies and Geographical Networks: Co-Dependence and Co-Evolution of Multinational Enterprises and Space, Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann
20. The Logic of Production Networks, Henry Wai-chung Yeung
21. Global Sourcing of Business Process, Stephan Manning, Marcus M. Larsen, and Chacko G. Kannothra
22. Towards New Economic Geographies of Retail Globalization, Neil M. Coe and Neil Wrigley
23. Corporate Social Responsibility and Standards, Alex Hughes
Part V: Work
24. Pluralizing Labour Geography, Jamie Peck
25. Precarious Work and Winner Take-all Economies, Kendra Strauss
26. Talent, Skills, and Urban Economies, Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander
27. Immigration and the Politics of Skill, Natasha Iskander and Nichola Lowe
Part VI: Finance
28. Finance and Financial Systems: Evolving Geographies of Crisis and Instability, Gary A. Dymski
29. The Global Financial Networks, Dariusz Wojcik
30. Information Flows and the New Digital Spaces of the Global Economy, Matthew Zook
31. 'Organic Finance': The Incentives in Our Investment Products, Ashby Monk and Rajiv Sharma
32. Financialization of Everday Life, Karen P.Y. Lai
33. Infrastructure and Finance, Philip O'Neill
Part VII: Environment
34. The Financialization Thesis Revisited: Commodities as an Asset Class, Sarah McGill
35. Vulnerable Regions in a Changing Climate, Robin Leichenko
36. Carbon Markets: Resource Governance and Sustainable Valuation, Janelle Knox-Hayes
37. Long Run Resource Scarcity, Dieter Helm
38. Reconceptualizing Resource Peripheries, Caitlin A. McElroy
39. Outside Regional Paths: Constructing an Economic Geography of Energy Transitions, Susan Christopherson
Part VIII: Strategies for Development
40. Green Growth, Cameron Hepburn, Alexander Pfeiffer, and Alexander Teytelboym
41. Pursuing Equitable Economic Growth in the Global South, Andres Rodriguez-Pose and Callum Wilkie
42. Just Growth: Strategies for Growth with Equity, Karen Chapple
43. Policy Through Practice: Local Communities, Self-Organization, and Policy, Jennifer Clark
44. Innovation Highways and the Geography of Inclusive Growth, Anita M. McGahan and Janice Stein
45. Shocking Aspects of Regional Development: Towards an Economic Geography of Resilience, Ron Martin