摘要：Contemporary social analysis finds itself cloven between a traditional, neoclassical, largely empirical mainstream on the one hand and an increasingly assertive and influential political economy on the other. Economics as well as economic geography and regional science remain the last bastions of orthodoxy immune from the poststructuralist challenge. Few authors have been brave, or skilled, enough to attempt to forge intersections between these domains. Trevor Barnes is to be congratulated for offering an incisive and highly informative dissection of the former from the vantage point of the latter. His volume, derived in part from papers published previously, constitutes an important step forward in the construction of a social science unshackled by the legacy of the Enlightenment, which finds itself manifested in economic geography and regional science through the persistent remnants of positivism and "spatial science".
