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  • Systems of Cities and Facility Location

    by P. Hansen, J. Henderson, M. Labbe, J. Peeters, J. Thisse ...
    First Published in 2001. This book contains two essays: the first examines optimal facility location, according to a variety of economic criteria; the second develops a theory of international trade in which a region is regarded as a system of cities. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

    Cities and Geography

    Edited by V. Henderson, J.F. Thisse ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics
    The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

  • Spatial Economics

    by Hans R. A. Koster, Stef Proost, Jacques-François Thisse ...
    An authoritative and cutting-edge exploration of how land, transportation, and economic forces shape cities, regions, and the distribution of economic activities from a local to a global scale. Land, by its very nature, is immobile and unproduced, creating competition for prime locations that drives disparities in economic outcomes. Transportation, meanwhile, serves as the mechanism for overcoming ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Economics of Agglomeration

    Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization

    by Masahisa Fujita, Jacques-François Thisse ...
    Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural features, economic mechanisms that rely on the trade-off between various forms of increasing ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Economic Geography and the Unequal Development of Regions

    by Jean-Claude Prager, Jacques-François Thisse ...
    Series 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 peaks and troughs in the spatial distribution of wealth and people, with a special emphasis on the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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    Competition, Conflict, Crises

    by Anwar Shaikh ...
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  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

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  • Lectures on Urban Economics

    by Jan K. Brueckner ...
    A rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics.Lectures on Urban Economics offers a rigorous but nontechnical treatment of major topics in urban economics. To make the book accessible to a broad range of readers, the analysis is diagrammatic rather than mathematical. Although nontechnical, the book relies on rigorous economic reasoning. In contrast to the cursory ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Straight Talk on Trade

    Ideas for a Sane World Economy

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken ... Read more

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  • The New Future of Money: How Our Debt Money System is Wrecking the World And How You Can Change It

    by Ssemakula Peter Luyima ...
    Ssemakula Peter Luyima provides a new concept for World Economy in the 21st century, by producing a revised concept of MuRatopian Economy; 30 years after Professor Kaoru Yamaguchi presented a synthesized analysis of the Neoclassical, Keynesian and Marxian with his own public money economic model. It is this author’s intention not only to provide an integrative concept for reconstruction of the ... Read more

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  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... Read more

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