ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapter of this book. The book provides an overview of the economic geography of industrialized capitalist society. The location of economic activities in capitalist society reflects both the production and circulation of commodities, and the social distribution of the surplus produced. Capitalists, workers and landlords then struggle over this surplus, each group trying to maximize its share. Production and circulation can be looked at in three ways: exchange value, labour value and the physical quantities or use values. Profits, prices and locational configurations also depend on the time taken for the production and circulation of commodities, because this affects the capital that must be advanced prior to production. The book also demonstrates how non-produced goods, notably land and physical resources, must be taken into account.
