Economic Geography: Regional Development

Economic geography studies where goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed. The prupose of the course is to provide a first introduction to the discipline of economic geography. The course creates a basic understanding of why economic activities are unevenly distributed in space and why the regional level is important for the discipline. 

The course begins with an overview of the emergence of economic geography, as well as an introduction to central economic-geographic theories and concepts, especially localization and foreign trade theories. It also includes a basic introduction to the geographic distribution of the world's population and natural resources. The course then covers the basic geographic patterns of international trade as well as the long-term geographic changes in manufacturing and service production from a global perspective.