Assembling the space economy: Governmentality and economic geography

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1744-1756

  Prince, Russell ^a   Dufty, Rae ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; GLOBALIZATION; GOVERNMENT; INNOVATION; NATION STATE; NEOLIBERALISM; RESEARCH;

EID: 72249107713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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