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Informationen zum Autor John Bryson, Peter Daniels, Nick Henry and Jane Pollard all lecture in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, at the University of Birmingham Klappentext First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This text provides an interdisciplinary review of the triad of knowledge, space, and economy on entering the 21st century. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the text comprises a set of statements by leading authors on the role of knowledge in capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: IntroductionPart I: Knowledge, Space and Economy2: Power/economic knowledge: symbolic and spatial formations; 3: Materialities, spatialities, globalities; 4: Knowledge, innovation and location; 5: The state and contradictions of the knowledge-driven economy; 6: Just in time?: the prevalence of representational time and space to marketing discourses of consumer buyer behaviourPart II: Knowledge at Work in Space and Place7: Creating and sustaining competitiveness: local knowledge and economic geography; 8: The industrial agglomeration (of Motor Sport Valley): a knowledge, space, economy approach; 9: Worlds in motion?: 'Worlds of Production', evolutionary economic change nd contemporary retail banking; 10: Spreading the message: management consultants and the shaping of economic geographies of time and space; 11: The free and the unfree: 'Emerging Markets', the Heritage Foundation and the 'Index of Economic Freedom; 12: Visions of space, place, time and life - useful knowledge, the human form and the new geneticsPart III: Becoming in the (K)now: Spaces of Identity13: Space, knowledge and cosumption; 14: Virtual culture: knowledge, identity and choice; 15: Category management and circuits of knowledge in the UK food business; 16: Being told and answering back: knowledge, power and the new world of work
