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Economic Geography of the Industrial World (Geography C110) Berkeley

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Industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth in the global North. Locational patterns in manufacturing, retailing trade, and finance. Geographic dynamics of technical change, employment, business organization, resource use, and divisions of labor. Property, labor, and social conflict as geographic forces. Local, national, and continental rivalries in a global economy, and challenges to U.S. dominance.

Resources: OpenCourseware from UC Berkeley, U of Houston, Yale, Stanford, Husson along with many of the World's finest University's.

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Language: English

Professors: Michael Williams

Units: 24

Lesson content
  • Intro Syllabus  
  • Lec 01 Markets: A World for Sale  
  • Lec 02 Industry: Revolutions in Production  
  • Lec 03 Technology: Progress & Knowledge  
  • Lec 04 Capital: The Accumulation of Money & Trouble  
  • Lec 05 Localization of Industry: Places of Production  
  • Lec 06 Globalization of Industry: Production Chains  
  • Lec 07 The Space of Flows: Logistics & Systems  
  • Lec 08 Retail Location: Spaces for Selling  
  • Lec 09 National Economies, Modern States & Trade  
  • Lec 10 State Economic Policy: Development & Stabilization  
  • Lec 11 Great Depressions and Great Recessions:  
  • Lec 12 Cities, Regions & Uneven Development  
  • Lec 13 Class Struggle in the USA  
  • Lec 14 Will Work for Fast Food  
  • Lec 15 Workers of the World: Hope in the East?  
  • Lec 16 New Divisions of the Labor  
  • Lec 17 Elements of Finance: Money, Banks & Securities  
  • Lec 18 Global Finance: Money makes the World go round  
  • Lec 19 Finance & Growth: The Control of Capital  
  • Lec 20 Financial Frenzy: Bubble Economics & Dysfunctional Finance  
  • Lec 21 Natural Resources & Industry  
  • Lec 23 Energy Lifelines  
  • Lec 24 Waste of the World: Neglected Geographies  
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