This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Economics, BSc in Environment and Development, BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Economics, BSc in Environment and Development, BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course will be delivered through live, in-classroom lectures, which will also be recorded and posted online for further consultation. This course is delivered through weekly seminars in Michaelmas Term where the teacher actively invites student participation in the form of questions and debates, in addition to taught classes that involve readings, problem sets, debates and discussions, on a weekly basis This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Michaelmas Term.
A variety of exercises including problems, reading analyses, use of examples that complement theoretical articles and so on.? We draw these up as close as possible to the term, or even during the term, in order to enhance the student experience by making the examples relevant and contemporary.
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Thierry Mayer, Jacques-Fran?ois Thisse, 2008, Economic Geography : The Integration of Regions and Nations, Princeton: Princeton University Press. Philip McCann, 2001, Urban and Regional Economics, Oxford University Press. Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles van Marrewijk, 2001, An Introduction to Geographical Economics: Trade, Location and Growth. Cambridge. Storper, M, and Walker, R, 1989 The Capitalist Imperative, Oxford: Blackwell. Storper, M. 1997 The Regional World, London: Guilford. Storper, M. 2014. Keys to the City,Princeton: Princeton University Press. Storper, M. et al, 2015, The Rise and Decline of Urban Economies. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Take-home assessment (100%) in the LT. The take home exam involves a combination of short responses (eg a paragraph or so);? and essays.?? The essay questions consist of a list of essay questions that correspond to the topics covered in the lectures.? These essays will be grouped into different sections on the exam, and students will choose one question from each group.? There will be either two or three groups of questions from which students will select.