The real problem with new economic geography, they believe, is its obsession with mathematical modelling.
Digital technology creates new pathways to link like-minded people once separated by geography, economic status, ethnicity, religion or race.
Mr Romney noted that one book he had read recently, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (utterly brilliant, by the way) put economic differences down to geography.
Cheap, widely distributed bandwidth and advanced networking technologies are divorcing an ever-growing segment of the population from traditionally "real" constraints like geography and socio-economic status.
Social and economic opportunities were dictated primarily by brute geography.
The European Commission said it was disappointing that West Wales and the valleys had not managed to improve their prosperity, but blamed the global economic crisis and the region's geography.
Economic statistics belie the two countries' shared history and geography.
Geography was much more significant in a more walled off economic era.
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The geography of America is slow to change, but not so the economic fortunes of our cities, states and regions.
While deadly hurricanes or tsunamis can be catastrophic regardless of geography, developing nations tend to suffer a second blow through the economic damage that can continue long after the debris is gone.
Thill writes that the company is well-balanced by both geography and customer segment, and adds that security stocks tend to outperform in slowing economic environments as security budgets tend to less vulnerable to IT spending cuts.
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He also examined the relationship between malaria and poverty, concluding that a severe malaria problem reduced a country's economic growth by 1.3 percentage points a year, even after other factors such as geography and governance were taken into account.
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