Michael Storper
Professor of Economic Geography
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
020 7955 6550
m.storper@lse.ac.uk
Affliations
In addition to my activities at the LSE, I am also affiliated with two other institutions: the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and its Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (www.sciences-po.fr, www.cso.edu); and the Department of Urban Planning in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles (www.ucla.edu).
Research
My research and teaching interests fall into five, closely linked, areas:
Economic geography, meaning the forces that affect the ways the economy organizes itself in geographical space. These forces are many and sundry, ranging from technology, industry structure and market structure, to institutions, effects of history, and policies. A core problem for me is the long-standing tension between the geographical concentration of activity and specialization of regional and national economies and the spreading out of activity into wider geographical spaces, both of which are occurring in the current wave of globalization.
Globalization, meaning the ever-increasing geographical scale of economic processes, and some of the associated processes of change in the scale at which management of firms, markets, and institutions operate. I am interested especially in the locational processes described above, and how they change the geographical distribution of economic activities and hence the composition of economies at different territorial scales and their development processes. Questions of interplace inequalities, polarization, convergence and divergence, can be seen strongly from an economic geographical perspective.
Technology as a force in structuring economic geography and globalization. Technological change is a key motor of geography, because it changes the structure of transport and trade costs. It does this in complex ways, and many of them are indirect. My research also concerns technological competencies at different territorial levels, the geography of technological innovation, and how this affects development processes in regions and nations.
Regions, especially city regions. The geographical concentration of activity is a key motor of the composition and functioning of urban and regional economies, their specializations, their labor markets, and their associated processes of physical and social development.
Economic development: economic geography is a strong way into examining the process of economic development. Though geography is structured by development, development is also structured by the unfolding of broad economic-geographical forces. Comparative economic development can be seen through the lens of economic geography, which can also help understand the geographical differentiation of institutions, which in turn have strong effects on development.
Beyond my core disciplinary skills in economic geography, my work on occasion draws on, and has links to, economics, sociology. and urban studies.
Curriculum Vitae
□ 2004"The Increasing Importance of Geographical Proximity in Technological Innovation: An Analysis of US PatentCitations, 1975-1997." co-authored with Jung Won Son
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/Sonn_Storper.pdf
□ 2004 "Buzz: Face-to-Face Contact and the Urban Economy" co-authored with Anthony J. Venables, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Geography.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/Buzz.pdf
□ 2004 "Society, Community and Economic Development," forthcoming in Studies in Comparative International Development
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/SocCommEcDev.pdf
□ 2004 "Society, Community, and Development: A Tale of Two Regions." Co-authored with Lena Lavinas and Alejandro Mercado. Forthcoming in Karen Polenske, ed, Spatial Dimensions of Innovation
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/SocCommDevelopment.pdf
□ 2003 "Regions, Globalization, Development." co-authored with Allen Scott, Regional Studies, 37, 6-7: 579-593, August/October.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/RegionsGlobDevelopment.pdf
□ 2002 "Trade and the Location of Industries in the OECD and the European Union." Co-authored with Yun-chung Chen and Fernando De Paolis, Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 2, March, pp. 73-107 Tables
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/TradeLocation.pdf
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/TradeLocationTables.pdf
□ 2001 "The Economic Geography of the Internet Age." Co-authored with Edward Leamer, Journal of International Business Studies 32,4: Fourth Quarter, 641-666, and as NBER Working Paper 8450 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research).
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/EcGeoInternetAge.pdf
□ 2001 "Global City Regions," Co-authored with Allen Scott, John Agnew, and Edward Soja, in: Allen Scott, ed, Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 11-30.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/GlobalCityRegions.pdf
□ 2001 "The Poverty of Radical Theory Today: from the False Promises of Marxism to the Mirage of the Cultural Turn," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 25,1: 155-179.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/RadicalTheory.pdf
□ 2000 "Globalization, Localization and Trade," in G. Clark, M. Feldman and M. Gertler, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 146-165.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/GlobLocalization.pdf
□ 2000 "Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society," Public Culture 12,2, special issue on "Millenial Capitalism," pp. 375-409.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/LivedEffects.pdf
□ 1999 "Globalization and Knowledge Flows." In: Dunning, J.H. (ed) Globalization, Regions and the Knowledge-based Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.42-62.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/GlobKnowledgeFlows.pdf
□ 1997 "Beautiful Cities, Ugly Cities: Urban Form as Convention." In M. Benedikt, ed., Center: Architecture and Design in America, volume 10: Value. University of Texas Press, pp. 106-123.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/BeautifulCities.pdf
□ 1997 "Civil Society: Three Ways Into a Problem." In: M. Douglass and J.Friedmann, editors, Cities for Citizens, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/CivilSociety.pdf
□ 1997 "The City: Center of Economic Reflexivity." The Service Industries Journal 17,1: 1- 27.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/TheCity.pdf
□ 1997 "Regional Economies as Relational Assets." In: R. Lee and J. Willis, eds, Society, Place, Economy: States of the Art in Economic Geography. London: Edward Arnold.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/RegEcRelAssets.pdf
□ 1997 "Industrial Policy for Latecomers" Introduction to Storper, Tsipouri and Thomadakis, Industrial Policy for Latecomers, London: Routledge.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/IndPolicy.pdf
□ 1996 "Systems of Innovation as Collective Action: Conventions, Products and Technologies." Industrial and Corporate Change 5,3: 1-30.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/Innovation.pdf
□ 1996 "Institutions of the Learning Economy." In: B-A Lundvall and D. Foray, editors, Employment and Growth in the Knowledge-Based Economy. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 255-286.
点击下载：http://time.dufe.edu.cn/spti/article/storper/InstitutionsLearningEconomy.pdf
原 作 者: Michael Storper
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