Colleagues on the Economic Geography list-serve:
At the AAG meetings in LA a panel session has been organized by myself,
Peter Daniels, Peter Wood, and Richard Shearmur entitled "After the Great
REcession: Research Needs Globally in the Producer Services." We would like to
invite you to participate in this session, which is scheduled for Friday
morning. The session description is included below. If you have an interest
in particpating in this panel, please do send Beyers or one of the other
organizers an e-mail, as we would like to have a good discussion.
Bill
Session Description: The global economy has been through tumult in the last
decade, with the deepest recession in the United States
since the 1930's. Employment in the United States has not yet recovered to
levels that it was at before the Great REcession began in late 2007. Europe
appears to slipping into another recession. A bright light in the portrait of
job growth in recent decades in developed as well as some developing economies
has been producer services. During the 1990's there was a burst of research on
this sector in Europe and North America, but firm-based research on this sector
of the economy seems to have languished in recent years. Why? What are the
research needs now, and how can we push forward on them? This panel will
engage this topic, with an eye towards articulating high priority research
needs as the global economy moves forward.
William B. Beyers
Professor Emeritus
406A Smith Hall
Department of Geography, Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195
Tel: (206) 543-5871; Fax (206) 543-3313
web: Http://faculty.washington.edu/beyers/
