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Economic geography
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Geography of Growth: Spatial Economics and Competitiveness by Raj Nallari; Breda Griffith; Shahid YusufISBN: 9780821394861
Publication Date: 2012-05-10
This volume breaks down the various types of cities and evaluates the key factors used to look at cities, such as innovation, green growth, spatial concentration, and smart cities in order to understand how cities work. As development specialists are increasingly focusing on how to make cities competitive, this book can serve as a guide for providing key insights, backed by cases on how cities can possibly become more competitive and productive.
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Canada and the Global Economy: The Geography of Structural and Technological Change by John N. H. BrittonISBN: 9780773509276
Publication Date: 1996-05-01
The contributors explore four central themes: the locational impacts of the openness of the Canadian economy, Canada's relatively simple economic geography in terms of regional variations in resources and urban development, the problems of keeping pace with rapid advances in technology, and the role of government in maintaining a national market and assisting economic development. They outline the essential elements of Canada's contemporary economic geography.
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The Sharing Economy: Solidarity Networks Transforming Globalisation by Lorna GoldISBN: 9780754633457
Publication Date: 2004-07-01
In this absorbing book, Lorna Gold uncovers the historical and philosophical origins of the sharing economy. Drawing on the varied experiences of business and community leaders from around the globe, and from Brazil and Italy in particular, the book examines the potential of this emerging alternative economic geography to offer a new vision of globalisation.
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Postcolonial Economies by Jane Pollard (Editor); Alex Hughes (Editor); Cheryl McEwan (Editor)ISBN: 9781848134058
Publication Date: 2011-05-12
This book utilises examples drawn from India to Latin America, and brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, including geography, economics, development studies, history and women's studies. Postcolonial Economies breaks new ground in providing a space for nascent debates about postcolonialism and its treatment of 'the economic'.
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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe by Robert S. DuPlessisISBN: 9780521394659
Publication Date: 1997-09-18
Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyzes the diverse patterns of economic change that permanently modified rural and urban production, altered Europe's economy and geography, and gave birth to new social classes. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, the book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from thoughout Mediterranean, east-central, and western Europe.
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The Economic Geography of Innovation by Karen R. Polenske (Editor)ISBN: 9780511493386
Publication Date: 2009-09-22
This critical addition to the growing literature on innovation contains extensive analyses of the institutional and spatial aspects of innovation. Written by leading scholars in the fields of economic geography, innovation studies, planning, and technology policy, the fourteen chapters cover conceptual and measurement issues in innovation and relevant technology policies. The contributors examine how different institutional factors facilitate or hamper the flows of information and knowledge within and across firms.
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Economic Geography: Places, Networks and Flows by Andrew Wood; Susan RobertsISBN: 9781136899478
Publication Date: 2012-10-12
Economic Geography provides a stimulating and innovative introduction to economic geography by establishing the substantive concerns of economic geographers, the methods deployed to study them, the key concepts and theories that animate the field, and the major issues generating debate. This book is the first to address the diverse approaches to economic geography.
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Economic Geography: Past, Present and Future by Bagchi-Sen; Richard G. SmithISBN: 9780203020258
Publication Date: 2006-09-27
Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its future direction. In doing so, the contributors show how economic geographers have offered explanations that affect places and lives in the broader context of the global economy. Contributors also demonstrate the need to engage with multiple audiences, and within this context they proceed to examine how geographers have interfaced with businesses and policy.
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