Economists as geographers and geographers as something else: On the changing conception of distance in geography and economics

Journal of Economic Geography

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 347-356

  Rodríguez Pose, Andrés ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Social Sciences   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; METROPOLITAN AREA;

EID: 79951537207     PISSN: 14682702     EISSN: 14682710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbq034     Document Type: Article

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