What’s the Experience Economy?

Yesterday I added in wikipedia the section: History of the concept of the experience economy. I think that interested people, learn about the term through wikipedia as its first source. Unfortunately is not a very good wiki article, but this is what we have for now. I consider myself quite a regular editor at wikipedia during the last years, and this is the time that I’m most excited to see how a paragraph can evolve. I believe it was necessary to clarify ideas about the experience economy. The term is quite confusing for everyone. I have got a few comments of people asking me about it, so just in case the check google and the wiki, I hope I can help to answer it.

I personally call Pine and Gilmore the Christopher Columbus of the experience economy. It’s clear, that they were not the first one to find about it. This is quite clear by wiki section I mentioned above. Nevertheless I have to say, that I respect these guys, and I wish someone left a comment on their blog. I guess the proud comments on Rush Limbaugh and the pictures with George Bush father is a turn off for the audience! j/K

Ok, let’s see the evolution of the paragraph.

End of Phd Course on Economic Geography in Utrecht.

Last week was the second and final week of this course. I already commented about the first week of the course in September. I really enjoyed the format of having two separated weeks and having to write a paper in between with the course literature. It was expensive though, having to travel twice and stay two weeks to the Netherlands. But anyways it was worthy it. I highly recommend this course for any phd student interested in geography and economics. 

I really enjoyed the senior lecturers presentations, and phd presentations and the majority of all discussions. Some of them were not in my topic, but it was nice to see the new things that people are coming up around European universities. I have to admit, that a few of the papers based on hard mathematical models were too much for me. 

The most inspiring thing is to remember that Economic Geography, while it’s proud to be interdisciplany, we have to remember that it is A discipline. It’s really exciting how geographers study the economy. Not all are trained geographers, in fact the majority come from other fields, such as history, political science, architecture, urban planning, engineering, or economics-business like me. 

I will also like to share some link that might interest you. 

Ron Boschma’s site with information about the course. 

EconGeo Network about Economic Geography Academics