Edited by Kingsley E. Haynes, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp, Li Qiangsheng
Regional Dynamics analyses the process of change that occurs within and between regions. This major two volume reference set includes the most important articles on the causes and consequences of regional change resulting from human acti...
Edited by Manfred M. Fischer, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
The articles in this collection span over 30 years including the work of many leading experts in the fields of housing market research and labour market research.
Edited by Jacques-François Thisse, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
In recent years a growing number of social scientists have become increasingly interested in the study of location problems. This interest has been fostered by the integration of national economies within broader spaces such as the EU o...
Edited by Niles Hansen, Kenneth Button, Peter Nijkamp
Regional Policy and Regional Integration reprints the most important papers on those government policies that have an intentional and formal geographic focus. These policies have typically been motivated by equity considerations such as...
This wide-ranging collection charts the responses of the economics discipline to these changes, initially slowly but with gathering pace, as communication and information have moved from the sidelines to centre stage.
It is commonplace to acknowledge the role of science and technology, and research and innovation specifically, in transforming the twentieth century world. Other studies, however, focuses on scientific and engineering research in general...
The theory of the firm is one of the most exciting fields of current economic research. Transaction cost theory, agency theory, contract theory and competency-based theories have all made important contributions. Both the classic and k...
The Foundations of Public Finance presents the most important articles and papers tracing the development of public finance from the earliest tolls and customs duties levied on goods and land to more complex tax systems up to 1950. A si...
This reference collection brings together major papers and essays on long wave or Kondratieff cycles. Edited by Christopher Freeman, Long Wave Theory includes both early contributions and work deriving from the revival of interest in th...
In Theories of Migration, Robin Cohen has brought together a substantive body of scholarship from many disciplines and schools of thought which address the failure to produce one satisfactory general theory of migration. Attempts to con...
This new two volume set contains major recent theoretical and empirical contributions to the debate on long-term economic growth. Research on long-term growth was revitalized in recent years as it became clear that countries were not con...
General Equilibrium Theory has been one of the major intellectual developments in economics during the past half-century. The theory of general equilibrium is centred on an inquiry about human societies which has several of the characte...