The subdiscipline of economic geography is enjoying something of a welcome boom in terms of new textbooks. The past couple of years have seen the appearance or promise of new editions of several existing textbooks as well as new collections. Such initiatives may well reflect a renewed vitality in the subdiscipline and certainly are helpful to those who teach the subject. However, as evidenced in some of these texts, economic geography is a tricky subject area to cover-not the least because a significant element transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries between human geography and economics. In this respect, few textbooks brave a full-blooded engagement with its arguable diversity, and those that do tend to do so via the edited collection or companion route. This situation is understandable, since any author or groups of authors may well feel cautious about writing definitely on an area of work that is situated in another discipline.
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