Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space

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Logics of Dislocation
Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space

Trevor J. Barnes

292 Pages
Paperback
1996
ISBN 978-1-57230-039-2
Cat. #0039
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I. Somewhere between Explanation and the Condition of Postmodernity

1. Toward a "Post"-prefixed Economic Geography

II. Essentialism and Rationalism in Economic Geography

2. Place, Space, and Theories of Economic Value: Context and Essentialism in Economic

Geography

3. Rationality and Relativism: An Interpretive Review of the Rational Choice Postulate in

Economic Geography

III. Mathematical Models, Metaphors, and Muddles

4. Encountering Edinburgh: Economic Geography and the Sociology of Scientific

Knowledge

5. Metaphors and Conversations in Economic Geography: Richard Rorty and the Gravity

Model

6. Probable Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and the Quantitative Revolution in Economic

Geography

IV. Three Exemplars

7. The Mask of Janus: Looking toward Formalism and Contextualism with Piero Sraffa

8. Harold A. Innis: Local Hero

9. Lukermann on Location

10. Conclusion

292 Pages
Paperback 1996 ISBN 978-1-57230-039-2 Cat. #0039 Price: ~~$30.00~~ $25.50 order