economic geography
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- noun
- /ˌiːkəˈnɑːmɪk dʒɪˈɡræfɪ/
- Specialized
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geografía económica
- Analyzing the economic geography of urban areas reveals how location impacts access to jobs and services.
Examples
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His focus is on economic integration and economic geography, covering trade, macro, and development.
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We need a real commitment to create jobs where people are and change the economic geography of this country.
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I had a question about the economic geography of this region.
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What students will find most useful to them in the years ahead is knowledge that is based on cultural and economic geography.
Academic text (1990) -
The location of these new land uses was determined by a combination of environmental factors and economic geography.
Academic text (2001) -
The economic geography of the new Germany cannot now be written adequately.
Academic text (1991) -
Children in sixth-grade social studies characteristically focus on world history and economic geography.
Academic text (1998) -
These fires signaled a profound change in the economic geography of a rapidly industrializing nation.
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Our research supports the view that economic geography should be linked to culture (Lee and Wills 1997) and that Veblen's perspective illuminates those connections.
Academic text (1997) -
While the modern, hard-surfaced road systematized and ordered America's social and economic geography during the 1920s and 1930s, the roadside became a showcase of disorganized, individualistic capitalism.
Academic text (1998)
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'economic' (relating to the economy) modifies 'geography' (the study of places), so the phrase denotes the study of economic activity in spatial terms. This adjective + noun formation is a standard, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Economic geography combines economic, meaning money, goods and jobs, and geography, meaning places and maps; imagine a map with factories, ports and shops linked by lines that show how goods and money move. That's why economic geography means 'the study of where production, distribution and consumption happen'.