Economic geography

This is the first comprehensive history and economic analysis of the Fertile Crescent during the 19th century, a region currently encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and a small part of Turkey.

This work focuses on integrating land-use location science with the technology of geographic information systems (GIS).

Throughout the industrialized world, international migrants serve as nannies, construction workers, gardeners and small-business entrepreneurs.

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features.

While sharing some characteristics with other middle-income countries, South Africa is a country with a unique economic history and distinctive economic features.

Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges.

Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge, and human capital are widely acknowledged as key levers of development.

Metropolitan areas with a high concentration of headquarters from diverse industries stand out as influential, dynamic economies.

Metropolitan areas with a high concentration of headquarters from diverse industries stand out as influential, dynamic economies.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models.

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business.

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business.

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy.

Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy.

Offshore outsourcing- the movement of jobs to lower-wage countries- is one of the defining features of globalization.

The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change.

Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one.

How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place?

People around the world are confused and concerned.

Globalization is a dominant feature and force in the contemporary world, impacting all areas of business, economics, and society.

Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now.

Harvard professor, Michael Porter has been one of the most influential figures in strategic management research over the last three decades.

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades.

Understanding the ways in which people save for their retirement is an urgent issue.

Why do some companies stay out of stock markets?

How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why?

How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place?

Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda.

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades.

Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern?

Recent market turmoil, bank runs, global equities sell-off, and the 'credit crunch' have demonstrated the sophisticated and interconnected nature of financial markets today - seemingly localized problems have quickly spread, putting at risk the solvency of both local and global financial institutions.

This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity.

It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate.

The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory addresses one of the most debated and least understood revolutions in the history of our species, the change from hunting and gathering to farming.

'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Phillippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern?

American manufacturing is in obvious crisis: the sector lost three million jobs between 2000 and 2003 as the American trade deficit shot to record highs.