Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

MODERN BUSINESS GEOGRAPHY INTROD UCTION CHAPTER ONE COTTON: AN EXAMPLE IN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY Tue world’s main business is getting a living. To do this, man must first obtain the food, clothing, and shelter that he needs to keep himself alive, and then must satisfy his other needs. As he works at his business of getting a living, man finds himself constantly helped or hindered by his geographical surroundings; they affect his daily work in a thousand ways. Business geography is the study of the relation between man’s daily work and the geographical conditions upon which his work depends. It explains what these conditions are and what is their effect; it shows what man can do to utilize the benefits that they bestow upon him or to overcome the obstacles that they put in his way. We study this branch of geography in order to learn what man’s working capital is and what use he makes of it. When we look into the history of the things that we use in our daily life, we find that every one of them was originally produced directly from nature; that is, from field, forest, ocean, or mine. In order to get a living, then, the first thing people must do is to produce some- thing — food, or wool, or lumber, or iron, or any one of a thousand other things that we use daily. This first step in the work of provid- ing the things that we need is called production. Few things can be used in the exact place where they are pro- duced. Berries may be picked from the bush and transferred to the mouth with no intervening stages, but most products must be trans- ported to the place where they are to be used. This second step in the business of supplying the needs of the world is called {ransporla- tion. Although a few commodities can be used in the raw state, the great majority must be prepared in some way. Wheat must be ground, copper smelted, leather tanned. Or perhaps many materials are com- bined, as glass, metals, jewels, and enamels are combined in a beau- tiful clock. This work of preparation is called manufacturing, or secondary production, in contrast to the original, or primary, pro- duction.

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