Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.
Historically and generally, Economic Geography is regarded as a subfield of the discipline of geography, although during the last decades many economists have pursued interests that can be considered part of economic geography. Due to this fact, many believe that Economic Geography is part of the discipline of Economics, instead of Geography.
Given the variety of approaches, Economic Geography has taken to many different subject matters, including: the location of industries, economies of agglomeration (also known as "linkages"), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy (tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction), and globalization. This list is by no means exhaustive.
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