Regional Economics

Innovation, Technology Policy and Regional Development

Edited by Tim Turpin, Xielin Liu, Sam Garrett-Jones, Peter Burns

This book is the result of a comparative investigation that contrasts micro-systems of innovation in several regions of China and Australia – two vastly different countries in terms of traditions, industry structures, political systems a...

Hardback (January 2003)

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Globalization, Universities and Issues of Sustainable Human Development

Edited by Jean L. Pyle, Robert Forrant

This volume raises an important question: Given the fast-changing global economy and the challenges it presents, what is the role for the university as an institution promoting sustainable human development? The editors begin by outlini...

Hardback (2003)

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Creating Capitalism

Patricia Dillon, Frank C. Wykoff

Employing historical analysis and building on growth theory and modern political economy, Dillon and Wykoff explain Soviet disintegration and analyze efforts to create capitalism in newly independent states. They show how five fundamenta...

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Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage

Edited by Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough

This book analyses the conception of economic development in modern regions, which has gone through a fundamental change since the early 1980s. Regions are today increasingly looked upon as independent market places that are connected vi...

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Constructing a Market Economy

Richard Pomfret

During the 1990s over two dozen countries in Europe and Asia underwent a transition from centrally planned to more market-oriented economies. In Constructing a Market Economy, Richard Pomfret reviews their diverse experiences and assesse...

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Travel Behaviour

Edited by Eliahu Stern, IIan Salomon, Piet H.L. Bovy

Travel Behaviour is a challenging and original volume, adding to the growing literature focusing on understanding transportation systems. The book capitalises on actual scientific and applied developments in Europe, the importance of EC ...

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Transportation Networks and the Optimal Location of Human Activities

Isabelle Thomas

The relationship between the shape of transportation networks and the optimal locations and allocations of human activities is examined in this unique volume.

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Public Investment and Regional Economic Development

Edited by Daniel Felsenstein, Ronald McQuaid, Philip McCann, Daniel Shefer

Public Investment and Regional Economic Development provides a systematic analysis of the complex relationship between public investment and regional economic development. The authors offer new insights into the key issues of regional gr...

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Perspectives on Korean Unification and Economic Integration

Edited by Young Back Choi, Yesook Merrill, Yung Y. Yang, Semoon Chang

During the last decade of the twentieth century, the Korean peninsula was the stage for non-stop, dramatic political and economic events. This volume brings together an unusually broad range of perspectives on US policy towards North Kor...

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Poland into the New Millennium

Edited by George Blazyca, Ryszard Rapacki

It is a widely held belief that the Polish experience of system transformation following the final collapse of ‘real socialism’ in 1989 is one of the ‘best’. Poland into the New Millennium surveys the country’s post-communist transformat...

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The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Communist Poland

Janice Bell

This book assesses the prevailing attitudes of both support and disenchantment among Poles towards transition, in the light of their own experiences. In particular Janice Bell uses statistical indicators on economic well-being, regional...

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