Curation Project: Economic Geography by Finney, Josiah

How Goods and Services Move Between Countries

finnjos27 — 2025-06-10 15:43:59 UTC

This image represents the movement of goods and services between multiple countries in different stages of development, core being highly elite countries and Periphery being less developed with a primary to tertiary economy.

What Are Free Trade Zones

finnjos27 — 2025-06-11 17:32:40 UTC

This article explains what free trade zones are and how they are used by large companies and enterprises, while still legally following customs and laws within the free trade zone.

What is Post-Fordism

finnjos27 — 2025-06-11 19:04:19 UTC

The video above gives a short, but well explained reason for how and why the U.S.'s economy today has gone from a Fordist manufacturing economy to Post-Fordism.

What Makes an Optimal Place to Start a Factory

finnjos27 — 2025-06-12 15:15:18 UTC

The article above gives an explanation of how a Factory's location would be based off of Weber's Least Cost Theory, making its location the most practical and cost friendly area to start manulfacturing.

What is The World Trade Organization (WTO), and what do they do

finnjos27 — 2025-06-13 15:14:40 UTC

The video shown gives a detail explanation from the WTO of how they work, and what their goals are as an organization.

Map of the Top 2,000 Transnational Corporations

finnjos27 — 2025-06-13 15:30:08 UTC

This map shows the location and weight of stock market capitalization (or "market cap") of the top 2,000 transactional corporations around the globe through a thematic map using proportionally sized circles.

Comparative vs. Competitive/Differential Advantages

finnjos27 — 2025-06-13 15:42:31 UTC

The image above gives a very clear cut example of what comparative and competitive (or used by the image differential) advantages and how they help push a companies success, all through the images of balloons. This image is very helpful because it simplifies the two advantages while still connecting back to how they work in the business world.

What is the Industrial Revolution and what did it effect

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 02:50:29 UTC

The National Geographic article gives a basic overview of what happened during the industrial revolution and how it diffused to the U.S. leading to a modern economy.

Complementarity Advantage

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 02:59:56 UTC

The image above shows how two regions or places can benefit from each other by giving a resource other doesn't have in return of a resource needed to start production.

Free Trade Agreements

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 03:06:51 UTC

The map above shows large scale trade agreements between countries across the globe who agreed to join a trade organization with another group of countries in their region.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 03:11:44 UTC

This map shows the IMF's area of operations where they lend development services through sharing knowledge and training. Having multiple locations makes monitoring development easier while making their responses to any issues faster.

Outsourcing vs. Offshoring

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 03:22:35 UTC

This image shows two different methods a company may use to reduce costs in production through international operations. Fist being Outsourcing, where a company obtains resources through an overseas region while offshoring involves moving or starting a portion of operation is an overseas region.

What are Trade Embargos

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 03:46:29 UTC

This image shows how trade embargos work through images that are put into cause and effect steps.

Custom Unions

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 03:50:28 UTC

Custom Unions are pacts made within a group a countries who give up a little bit of sovereignty top be able to trade freely without tariffs or any other heavy laws, one of the most famous being the European Union (EU).

The 5 Economic Sectors

finnjos27 — 2025-06-14 04:01:29 UTC

The image above shows each economic sector being represented by an image, with primary with raw materials like plants, secondary being manufacturing, tertiary being retail businesses and selling products, quaternary being educated research, and quinary being high positions of authority.