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Michael Storper
Economic and urban geographer

Michael Storper

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Economic and urban geographer
Work field
Gender
Male
Birth
Age
71 years
Education
Bachelor of Arts
University of California, Berkeley
(-1975)
Master of Arts
University of California, Berkeley
(-1979)
Doctor of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
(-1982)
Awards
Fellow of the British Academy
 
Founder’s Medal
(2016)
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
 
honorary doctor of the University of Utrecht
(2008)
Gold Medal
 
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Biography

Michael Storper is an economic and urban geographer, living in Los Angeles and Paris, teaching at the University of California (UCLA), Sciences Po and London School of Economics. In 2014 he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" of the 21st century for his writings being among the top 1% most cited in the field of social sciences. He is a fellow of the British Academy and in 2016 received the Founder's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.

Early life

Michael Storper completed a bachelor degree in sociology and history in 1975, followed by a masters in 1979 and a PhD in geography in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Books

  • 1989 (with Richard Walker) The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth, Wiley-Blackwell
  • 1997 The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy, The Guilford Press
  • 2013 Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development, Princeton University Press
  • 2015 The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles, Stanford Business Books
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