1. College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China;
2. Resource Environment & Tourism School, Anyang Normal University, Anyang 455002, China
Abstract：This paper explores the international progress of financial geography by focusing on the differences of academic origin, focus issues and analyzing methods between geography and economics in financial geography research. In geography, it was David Harvey's turn to Marx, and the central role afforded to money within Marxist theory, that made geographers take money and finance seriously for the first time in early 1970s. In 2000s cultural economy approaches to money and finance developed most significantly in geography, which adopts a poststructuralist epistemology to emphasize the constantly entangled nature of economic, cultural, social and political relations and used some key concepts such as networks and embeddedness to understand how ‘the economic’ is constituted through social relations. While in economics, the earliest relative studies can be traced back to classical location theory and circular cumulative causation theory in 1950s, and later studies were greatly influenced by information economics. Research on money and finance in geography pay more attention to the impacts of location and place on financial transactions and operations, financial system on inequality of regional development. In the literature of economics, discussion focused the nonneutrality of money and financial systems on regional development, with special attention to the effects of distance on credit allocation and availability, which can be found in new-Keynesian and post-Keynesian theories of financial system. Economic geographers are good at using multimethod approaches, ranging from interviews with policymakers and ordinary users of financial services, carefully crafted comparative case studies of places and sectors, to systematic mapping of the global circuits of money.
彭宝玉, 蒋冰华, 魏雪燕, 谢桂珍. 国外金融地理:地理学和经济学研究对比[J]. 人文地理, 2016, 31(2): 18-23.
PENG Bao-yu, JIANG Bing-hua, WEI Xue-yan, XIE Gui-zhen. THE RESEARCH CONTRAST BETWEEN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL GEOGRAPHY. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2016, 31(2): 18-23.
