Regional economies as knowledge laboratories

Today, the study of regions is central to academic analysis and policy deliberation on how to respond to the rise of the knowledge economy. Regional Economies as Knowledge Laboratories illustrates how newer types of regional analysis # utilising scientometrics, knowledge services measures and university networks, and ...

Globalization and the location of firms

This authoritative collection reprints the key articles in the field of locational clustering, and the relationship between local clusters and the activities of multinational firms. It covers both the principal theoretical and statistical explanations of the clustering of firms in common locations, and includes a ...

La burbuja inmobiliaria

cómo saber si comprar o vender ahora

Por primera vez un libro trata claramente la burbuja inmobiliaria, sus causas y los efectos que podría tener en las familias y el futuro económico de España. Las 392 opiniones sobre la burbuja inmobiliaria recogidas en este libro han sido seleccionadas entre más de 36 ...

New state spaces

urban governance and the rescaling of statehood

Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state. Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State ...

Financing development

the power of regionalism

The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez call for a more open and radical regionalism. They ...

Empowering squatter citizen

local government, civil society and urban poverty reduction

With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face ...

The high cost of free parking

Free parking isn't really free. In fact, the average parking space costs more than the average car. Initially, developers pay for the required parking, but soon tenants do, and then their customers, and so on, until the cost of parking has diffused throughout the ...

The economics of staging the Olympics

a comparison of the Games 1972-2008

The Olympic Games is a unique event centering global interest on its host city. The financing of the Games has changed dramatically since Munich (1972) and economic interests and effects are increasingly paramount. It is therefore an anomaly that accurate economic analysis and comparison is ...

Recent developments in urban and regional economics

In this authoritative collection, Paul Cheshire and Gilles Duranton have brought together the most significant contributions to regional and urban economics since 1990. The volume presents papers on theoretical and empirical analyses of city structure and systems of cities. It places particular emphasis on the ...

Planificación estratégica sostenible de redes territoriales

teoría y práctica

La situación de los territorios de carácter periférico requiere políticas especialmente diseñadas para lograr resultados sólidos, dadas las condiciones de la realidad económica y social actual. La planificación estratégica se ha ofrecido como un método particularmente adecuado para definir las pautas generales de tales actuaciones ...

Ordenación del territorio y desarrollo territorial

el gobierno del territorio en Europa: tradiciones, contextos, culturas y nuevas visiones

El nuevo contexto globalizado supone formidables desafíos para los territorios y sus gentes. Nada es igual que hace un cuarto de siglo. De las viejas «certezas» y «seguridades» hemos pasado a un brumoso inicio de milenio marcado por la incertidumbre y complejidad del presente. Los ...

Comparative economic systems in the twenty-first century

INDICE Chapter 1: World Economic Systems in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 2: Definition and Classification Chapter 3: Institutions, Systems, and Economic Outcomes Chapter 4: Reform and Transition Chapter 5: Theory of Market Capitalism Chapter 6: Theory of Planned Socialism Chapter 7: Theory of Market Socialism ...

Las nuevas democracias

transición política y renovación institucional en los países postcomunistas

Este libro contiene una selección de los mejores escritos de Claus Offe,hecha por el propio autor,sobre los países post-comunistas y su intento por construir nuevas democracias a partir de la fecha fatídica-y a la vez memorable-de 1989.No hay duda de que,ante ...

Capitalismo histórico y movimientos antisistémicos

un análisis de sistemas-mundo

En este libro, que repasa todo el arco de la vida y el trabajo intelectual de Immanuel Wallerstein, el autor presenta los protocolos teóricos y epistemológicos de su análisis del sistema-mundo moderno y de la economía-mundo capitalista, en los que ofrece una riqueza de perspectivas ...

Capitalism and its economics

a critical history

An impressive achievement.' Noam Chomsky / 'Doug Dowd's strategy of linking together in a single volume the development of economic ideas and the closely related evolution of economic institutions and policies is carried out with his usual efficiency and wit. This is a work of ...

El capitalismo, ¿es moral?

¿Es moral el capitalismo? Nadie puede evitar enfrentarse a esta pregunta, puesto que ninguno de nosotros es ajeno ni a la moral ni al capitalismo. Todo el mundo participa --mediante su trabajo, sus ahorros y su consumo-- en un sistema económico que algunos justifican y ...

La fábrica de la estrategia

33 lecciones sobre Lenin

A principios del siglo XX, Lenin intervino en una coyuntura similar a la actual, cuando el capitalismo global conocía su primera gran crisis mundial pivotada en torno a la primera guerra imperialista, la composición de clase de la fuerza de trabajo rusa estaba experimentando una ...

The political economy of Stalinism

evidence from the Soviet secret archives

This book uses the formerly secret Soviet state and Communist Party archives to describe the creation and operations of the Soviet administrative command system. It concludes that the system failed not because of the 'jockey'(i.e. Stalin and later leaders) but because of the ...

Marx's revenge

the resurgence of Capitalism and the death os statist socialism

#In the triumphant resurgence of capitalism and indeed its global reach, the one thinker who is vindicated is Karl Marx. The demise of the socialist experiment inaugurated by October 1917 would not distress but cheer Marx if, as an atheist, he occupies any part of ...

Music business

infrastructure, practice and Law

Music business is an insider's guide to the infrastructure, practice and Law of the music business, Unusually for a book on this subject, it analyses the organisation and evolution of the music business before considering the copyright and contract rules which underlie it. Wherever ...