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  • The Economics of Globalization

    An Introduction

    This book is an introduction to the Economics of Globalization, which may well be considered as a novel discipline. As a matter of fact, it looks at the global economy not only through the eyes of developed countries – which is what International Economics, through its two components of International Trade and International Monetary Economics, can be depicted as doing – but also through the eyes ... Read more

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    The global financial and economic crisis has brought about many effects that are still difficult to interpret univocally. This book studies the consequences of the crisis on Europe by examining the effects on the European institutional setup, governance and architecture and by studying in detail the different member countries. ... Read more

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    How Cities Are Changing The World

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

    PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTAn epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster—and an anatomy of the austerity politics that continue to shape the world todayWhen the news broke in 1975 that New York City was on the brink of fiscal collapse, few believed it was possible. How could the country's largest metropolis fail? How could the capital of the financial world go bankrupt? Yet the ... Read more

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  • The New Chinese Economy

    Dynamic Transitions into the Future

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    The most recent account of what is going on in the fast changing world and Chinese economics. Topics in the book include economic development, banking and finance, education reform, consumption patterns, the impact of social networking, population dynamics, policy making, and the challenges ahead for the rising economic global superpower. ... Read more

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  • Coming Home to New Orleans

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    Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. The book begins with two chapters that address Katrina's impact and the planning and public sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Rebuilding narratives for six New ... Read more

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  • Global and Regional Dynamics in Knowledge Flows and Innovation

    Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and processes, has become the key concept in inquiries concerning the contemporary knowledge based economy. Geography plays a decisive role in the underlying processes that enable and support knowledge formation and diffusion activities.Place specific ... Read more

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  • Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis

    New Challenges from Data at Local Level

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores different approaches to defining the concept of region depending on the specific question that needs to be answered. While the typical administrative spatial data division fits certain research questions well, in many cases, defining regions in a different way is fundamental in order to obtain significant empirical evidence. The book is divided into three parts: The first part ... Read more

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  • Urban Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion

    This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by 2050. With urbanization levels still averaging about 30%, gross domestic product contributions of ... Read more

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  • The Organization of Cities

    Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life

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    This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within a liberal state. These models link markets for the factors of production, markets for investment ... Read more

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  • Regional Problems and Policies in Latin America

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage of seven individual countries; and comparative analyses of common major problems such as migration, ... Read more

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  • Boomburbs

    The Rise of America's Accidental Cities

    Series series Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs
    A glance at a list of America's fastest growing ""cities"" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing-including many of their ten million residents. These ""boomburbs"" are large, rapidly growing ... Read more

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