OnlineFirst - "The economic geographies of mergers and acquisitions (M&As)" by Liam Keenan and Dariusz Wójcik:

#mergersandacquisitions #economicgeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231190091

OnlineFirst - "Why is causal explanation critical in/to economic geography?" by Henry Wai-chung Yeung:

#explanation #causalmechanism #midrangetheory #pragmatism #economicgeography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231191923

#job 6 Jahre + 100% #EconomicGeography #EconTwitter @econ4future_DE @KaiKodden @exploringecon @EconomicEthics @econgeog @wigeo_jena @DoughnutEcon @HetEconVienna @GCEG_Dublin2022
https://www.wigeo.uni-bayreuth.de/de/news/2023/2023_04_24/index.html

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is tripling its investment in U.S. supply chains to $40 billion with plans for a second chip plant.

Meanwhile...

Nissan reports “Producing in Japan actually looks cheaper than producing in the U.S” due to currency price fluctuations.
(WSJ)

#economics
#economicgeography
#globalism
#semiconductors
#autoindustry
@geography

Right, need to do redo the #introduction post for the new gaff.

Geographer by education and inclination, planning advisor, occasional business hack, into urban planning, urbanism, urban and rural poverty and everything that impacts these.

Led by science and reason.
Prone to the sweary.
See also sarcasm.
Woke AF.
Stalled #writer

West Ham fan because glory hunting is for wimps.

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The WSJ reports the U.S. has imported more goods from Europe than from China this year.

The shift is helping Europe’s embattled manufacturers and pushing East Coast ports ahead of their West Coast counterparts in import volumes after years of Asia’s ascendance.

Container imports into major East Coast ports were up 3.4% year-over-year in September while the inbound volume dropped 17.8% at West Coast ports.
#economics
#globalpolitics
#economicgeography
@geography

Italian energy giant Enel is readying a massive solar-manufacturing push in the U.S.

One of the largest such ventures in the country.

The factory will also manufacture solar cells, the building blocks for solar panels and a component not currently produced in the U.S.

Looking at potential sites from the Great Lakes to Texas, with hopes of starting production in 2024. (WSJ)
#economics
#globaleconomy
#supplychain
#solarenergy
#economicgeography
@geography
@drvolts

#Introductions
Me: Professor of #Economicgeography @Uni Bayreuth

Editor @ #Antipode

New open access book "Farming as Financial Asset": https://www.agendapub.com/pdfs/chapters/9781788211871_bk.pdf
#agendapublishing
#columbiauniversitypress

Living website: http://institutionallandscapes.org

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#jobOffer #Academia #Geography #EconomicGeography #EnvironmentalGeography

📍 Dpt of Geography (https://geography.wisc.edu/) and International Studies Program (https://ismajor.wisc.edu/) at the Univ of Wisconsin-Madison.

🔖 Joint tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Environmental Geography and International Studies.

🤓 @ the nexus of development economics, geography, and environmental studies.

📆 Deadline 7/12/2022

ℹ️ https://tinyurl.com/3zs763aa