Economic Geography: Economic Geography, we study the (locational, organizational and behavioral) principles and processes associated with

the spatial allocation of scarce (human, man-made and natural) resources (which are also distributed spatially) and the spatial patterns and (direct and indirect, social, environmental and economic) consequences resulting from such allocations." "Economic geographers study the principles governing the spatial allocation of resources and the resulting consequences". Economic geography is the study of the location, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world. i. ii. Theoretical economic Geography focuses on building theories about spatial arrangement and distribution of economic activities. Regional economic geography examines the economic conditions of particular regions or countries of the world. It deals with economic regionalization, and local economic development as well. Historical economic geography examines history and the development of spatial economic structure. Using historical data it examines how the centers of population and economic activity shift, what patterns of regional specialization and localization evolved over time and what factors explain these changes. Critical economic geography is approach from the point of view of contemporary critical geography and its philosophy. Behavioral economic geography which examines the cognitive processes underlying spatial reasoning, locational decision making, and behavior of firms and individuals.

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Historically and generally, Economic Geography is regarded as a subfield of the discipline of geography, although during the last decades many economists have pursued interests that can be considered part of economic geography. Due to this fact, many believe that Economic Geography is part of the discipline of Economics, instead of Geography. Given the variety of approaches, Economic Geography has taken to many different subject matters, including: the location of industries, economies of agglomeration (also known as "linkages"), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy (tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction), and globalization. A quick and simple definition of Geography thus may be: "the study of the way in which society organizes itself in space".