Geography 2143A/B Lecture Notes - Multinational Corporation, Economic Geography, Microsoft Exchange Server

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2143A/B
• Professor: Milford Green

Document Summary

This course covers what i consider the most important topics: The course examines these selected aspects of the international economy from the special perspective of economic geography. As field of intellectual inquiry, economic geography is primarily concerned with those economic relationships between places that can be generalized under the term spatial interaction. The clich is that instantaneous global telecommunications, television, and computer networks will soon overthrow time and space. Companies will need no headquarters, workers will toil as effectively from home, car, or beach. E. g. social interaction still matters a lot even in an era of disembodied digital identities . Software for american companies is already written by indians and transmitted to silicon valley by satellite. Foreign-exchange markets have long been running 24 hours a day. But, such developments have made hardly a dent in the way people think and feel about things.