Michael Storper

Biography

Michael Storper completed a bachelor's 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.[1]

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.[2] He is a fellow of the British Academy[3] and in 2016 received the Founder's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.[4]

He lives in Los Angeles and Paris.[5]

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

Further reading
  • Hoyler, M.; Freytag, T.; Jöns, H. (2004). "Technology, organization, territory. A biographical interview with Michael Storper". In Storper, Michael (ed.). Institutions, incentives and communication in economic geography. Hettner-Lecture 2003. Steiner. pp. 69–83. ISBN 3-515-08453-3.
  • Reimer, Suzanne (2010). "Michael Storper". In Hubbard, Phil; Kitchin, Rob (eds.). Key Thinkers on Space and Place (2nd ed.). Sage. pp. 394–399. ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5.

References
  1. Latham, Alan (2017) "Michael Storper", in Koch, R. and Latham, A. (eds.) Key Thinkers on Cities, London: Sage
  2. UCLA: "Michael Storper Makes List of World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds", 7 October 2014
  3. British Academy Fellows | Record for: STORPER, Professor Michael Archived 2016-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Bob Geldof and Professor Michael Storper receive Royal Medals
  5. Bernard, Ariane: "An American (and His Second Home) in Paris", in The New York Times 18 October 2006
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