With the UK still facing the repercussions of the 2007 economic downturn, Coe and Jones' text is a timely, engaging discussion of the key issues facing the UK economy from a purely geographical perspective, written by some of the leading academics in the field.
With pedagogical features to facilitate learning, including further reading and chapter aims, the text explores the complex connections that constitute the UK economy including the city and finance, the uneven development of the UK, the UK economy's links to the European Union and its wider ties to the global economy.
Written for geography students studying modules on economic geography and the human geography of the UK, the text is a vibrantly written, easy-to-understand analysis of the current and future challenges that face the contemporary UK economy.
Includes a preface by Doreen Massey.
Preface - Doreen Massey
Part I: Setting the Scene: Uneven Economic Geographies
Introduction: the shifting geographies of the UK economy? - Neil M. Coe and Andrew Jones
Persistent North/South divides - Danny Dorling
Uneven regional growth: the geographies of boom and bust under New Labour - Ron Martin
Part II: Landscapes of Power, Inequality and Finance
The City and finance: changing landscapes of power: - John Allen
Banking on financial services - Shaun French, Karen Lai and Andrew Leyshon
The geography of UK government finance: tax, spend and what lies between - Steve Musson
State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK - Andy Pike and John Tomaney
Housing and the UK economy - Chris Hamnett
The geographical pension gap: understanding patterns of inequality in UK occupational pensions - Kendra Strauss and Gordon Clark
Part III: Landscapes of Production and Circulation
The changing geographies of manufacturing and work: Made in the UK? - Ray Hudson
Business services: driving the knowledge-based economy in the UK? - James Faulconbridge
Agricultural restructuring and changing food networks in the UK - Brian Ilbery and Damian Maye
The shifting geographies of UK retailing - Neil Wrigley
UK energy dilemmas: energy security and climate change - Michael Bradshaw
Part IV: Landscapes of Social Change
Restructuring UK labour markets: work and employment in the twenty-first century - Kevin Ward
New migrant divisions of labour - Jane Wills, Cathy McIlwaine, Kavita Datta, Jon May, Joanna Herbert and Yara Evans
The UK economy and the transformation of East Central Europe - Alison Stenning
Coda: The UK Economy in an era of globalization - Neil M. Coe and Andrew Jones
