Economic Geography Books

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41. Economic Geography and the Unequal Development of Regions

    By Jean-Claude Prager, Jacques-François Thisse

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Behind the mystery of economic growth stands another mystery: why do some places fare better than others? Casual evidence shows that sizable differences exist at very different spatial scales (countries, regions and cities). This book aims to discuss the main economic reasons for the existence of...

    Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
42. Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport

    Governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles

    Edited by Måns Nilsson, Karl Hillman, Annika Rickne, Thomas Magnusson

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

    This book is about how societies around the world can accelerate innovation in sustainable transport. It examines the relationship between policy change and the development of technological innovations in low carbon vehicle technologies, including biofuels, hybrid-electric vehicles, electric...

    Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
43. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

    From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

    Edited by Peter W. Daniels, K.C. Ho, Thomas A. Hutton

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

    The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period of services-led growth, the early twenty-first century economic...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
44. Controversies in Local Economic Development

    Stories, strategies, solutions

    By Martin Perry

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a more globalised economy. Intensified efforts...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
45. Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

    Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

    By Simon Springer

    Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

    Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
46. China and Globalization

    The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, 3rd Edition

    By Doug Guthrie

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
47. Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

    The Governance of the Global Value Chain

    Edited by Fiorenza Belussi, Alessia Sammarra

    Series: Regions and Cities

    During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited,...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
48. Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

    The Donbas in Transition

    Edited by Adam Swain

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
49. Universities, Innovation and the Economy

    By Helen Lawton-Smith

    Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

    Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
50. Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

    Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

    By Philip Cooke

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge