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Економска географија на почетку новог миленијума. Осврт на „нову економску географију“
Economic Geography At The Bigginig Of New Millenia - An Insight On “New Economic Geography“

Author(s): Emilija Manić
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Универзитет у Нишу
Keywords: economic geography; economic activities; “new economic geography”

Summary/Abstract: For centuries the knowledge about economic space has been gethered, but first attempts of their sistematization dated from XVII century. However, the economic geography as scientific discipline was defined at the end of XIX and the beggining of XX century. It developed into modern discipline thanks to the different transformation phases, among which it closed to some conomic discipline such as spatial economy by its subject or methodology. Today, beside the economic activities distributuiin, economic geography researches world resources usage, geographical structure of world economy and economic regions character. The paper presents a brief retrospective onto historic development of the discipline, with a special reference to the “new economic geography” (NEG). It discusses the reasons of its appearance, its scope of research and contribution to the geography and scientific development in general.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 1819-1835
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian