Suchergebnisse

Setting the scene : conceptualising capitalist economies as co-produced -- Making co-production possible : from state regulation to informal institutions, conventions and habits -- Enabling co-production : managing relations between capital and labour -- Competition among co-producing firms : varying forms of competitive strategy -- Collaboration among firms : collaborating and co-producing with some in order to compete with others -- People collaborating and competing for waged work in the co-producing economy -- Engaging consumers in the co-production of commodities -- Capital and nature: from relations of domination to active co-production -- Co-producing sustainable economies or the end of capitalism as we knew it? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Drawing upon 25 years of original research, Production, Places and Environment provides a unique combination of rich, varied and theoretically informed case studies, along with more general analyses of processes and changing theoretical and methodological perspectives in economic geography that are informed by original empirical research.Through a huge range of his own groundbreaking case material the author explores such essential factors as space, production, social and political concerns, and environmental issues, being careful to ground the more complex theory in the more general tendencie

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