ABSTRACT

While there is little doubt that economic geography is the most advanced field of the discipline, its organisation is fairly chaotic being little more than a series of ad hoc notions brought forward as the occasion warrants so that analyses are never articulated and our understanding only piecemeal. The narrower exercise is to phrase the demand side of the economy in geographical terms in order first, to see how concepts available for all economic agents work out for consumers and second and most important to build up a geographical theory of demand. Large subject of this essay is the geography of demand conceived deterministically. Strictly speaking, in a deterministic universe all of the future is known so that a change can be no more than a materialisation of foreknowledge. The sort of thing which can alter preferences, consumption experience for example, implies the gaining of knowledge and therefore a previous time when the world was incompletely specified.