Economic Geography

R _ )ECENT contributions to this journal have admirably summarized and pertinently discussed some of the problems confronting economic geography.1 Current developments within the subject and the impact of more clearly formulated concepts concerning space relations have encouraged economic geographers to think anew upon the nature and scope of their subject. Whatever the outcome of these deliberations, it will become increasingly necessary at some stage to formulate a disciplinary definition of the field and scope of economic geography. The value of disciplinary definitions has been questioned, but there is a need, as iMicCarty has suggested, for developments of new and more useful systems of classification in economic geography.2 Systems of this type need not of necessity be sterile. In precise terms, a good disciplinary definition of the subject should

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