High-technology development in regional economic growth

policy implications of dynamic externalities

Korea has had considerable success in developing its high-technology industries and these have become significant employers in this region. By analyzing the situation in Korea, this text explores the effects of dynamic externalities on the growth of regional employment in the high- technology industries. It ...

New forms of urbanization

beyond the urban-rural dichotomy

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes. An important element in context is the type of settlement in which people live and work and so, it is vital to ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Políticas públicas y equilibrio territorial en el Estado autonómico

Dirs. Ángel de la Fuente Moreno, Xavier Vives Torrents. Obra impulsada por el Institut d#Estudis Autonòmics de la Generalitat de Cataluña y la Fundación BBVA cuyo objetivo es analizar la incidencia territorial de la actuación del sector público español. Una parte importante del libro ...

The Oxford handbook of economic geography

edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman and Meric S. Gertler This is the most comprehensive and significant statement about the value and potential of economic geography in thirty years. More than forty leading economists and geographers from around the world investigate the rival ...

Urban and regional prosperity in a globalised new economy

There is currently a popular view that the world is undergoing profound changes in the fundamental relationships upon which it is organised. In particular, there is widespread talk of a #globalised# economy, facilitated by and associated with #new# technologies and practices. There is a further ...

The diversity of modern capitalism

This book proposes a comparative analysis of modern capitalism. It identifies five different types of modern economies: the market-based economies, Asian capitalism, the Continental European model, the social democratic economies, and the Mediterranean model. It presents their main institutional characteristics and relates the different models ...

The end of diversity?

prospects for German and Japanese capitalism

After the devastation of World War II, Germany and Japan built national capitalist institutions that were remarkably successful in terms of national reconstruction and international competitiveness. Yet both "miracles" have since faltered, allowing US capital and its institutional forms to establish global dominance. National varieties ...

Un manifiesto anticapitalista

Las manifestaciones antiglobalización de Seattle, Washington, Millau, Melbourne, Praga, Seúl, Niza, Quebec City, Gotemburgo, Génova o Barcelona, ocurridas en los últimos tres años, no obedecen a brotes de protesta esporádicos. Tienen que ver con un sentimiento generalizado de rechazo a los valores del mercado y ...

Los oligarcas

poder y dinero en la nueva Rusia

Los oligarcas es una apasinante crónica periodística que analiza en detalle el auge de 4 hombres de negocios rusos: Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berozovsky y Vladimir Gusinsky, que acabaron siendo los 'oligarcas' que modelaron el paisaje económico y político de la nueva Rusia. Todos ...

Lessons from the failure of the communist economic system

Why have the neoliberal economic programmes aimed at transforming Eastern Europe to a market economy and democracy since 1989, not only experienced unanticipated difficulties but more importantly failed to achieve their expected progress? Dr Ladislav Rusmich and Dr Stephen M. Sachs offer a comprehensive and ...

El valor del socialismo

El valor del socialismo es una recopilación de textos publicados a lo largo de más de tres décadas, cuyos hilos cnductores son la constante y lúcida crítica de lo que no es socialismo, aunque se autodesigne como tal, y la defensa de la indisolubilidad de ...

Farm to factory

a reinterpretation of the soviet industrial revolution

To say that history's greatest economic experiment - Soviet communism - was also its greatest economic failure is to say what many consider obvious. Here, in a reinterpretation, Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful developing economies of the 20th century ...

Resistencias mundiales

(de Seattle a Porto Alegre)

Abastecimiento y alimentación en Toledo en el siglo XV

El síndrome de la globalización

transformación y resistencia

En este libro, James Mittelman explica la dinámica sistémica y las innumerables consecuencias de la globalización, concentrándose en la interacción existente entre las fuerzas de mercado- orientadas en algunos casos por el estado- y las necesidades de la sociedad. Mittelman revela que la globalización dista ...

La deuda externa del mundo en desarrollo

teoría, realidad y alternativas

La deuda externa es una de las cuestiones centrales en la explicación de la realidad que vive en el presente el mundo en desarrollo. En los ultimos años ha sido, afortunadamente, objeto de un amplio debate social, que le ha despojado de la mirada exclusivamente ...

La ecología del desarrollo humano

Para comprender como se desarrollan los niños, Bronfenbrenner cree que es necesario observar su conducta en entornos naturales, mientras interactúan con adultos que les son familiares, durante un tiempo prolongado. Su libro ofrece un esquema importante para construir una psicología del desarrollo no sólo renovadora ...

A history of metallurgy

In this book Professor Tylecote presents a unique introduction to the history of metallurgy from the earliest times to the present. The development of metallurgy skills and techniques of different civilisations, and the connection between them, are carefully chartered. This volume is concerned with such ...

Environmental impacts of globalization and trade

a systems study

The relationship between trade and the environment has become an increasingly contentious issue between economists and environmentalists. Economists maintain that trade helps the natural environment because rich countries can better afford to protect their unspoiled areas. Environmentalists counter that the pursuit of national wealth drives ...