Economic geography

This book analyzes a broad variety of tourism products in China, Asia and Europe that employ both cutting-edge IT technologies and advanced methodologies.

This edited volume analyses and discusses the systematisation of Polish socio-economic transformations of the last three decades using selected examples of the most important changes.

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city's South Side blues clubs and blocks.

We are witnessing an unprecedented global outbreak of COVID-19, which has been devastating in its consequences.

This book seeks to deepen readers' understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis.

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.

Lack of credit access is severe in low income and poor families that are normally considered to have fewer opportunities to borrow from banks due to insufficient valuable assets for collateral.

Human capital is of utmost importance for the future of our knowledge economies and societies.

This book presents a unified approach to the problem of inequality, combining results from a variety of research fields - the human life cycle, group dynamics, networks, markets, and economic geography.

This volume brings together contributions from women business scholars from a range of disciplines and countries.

This book evaluates African Special Economic Zones from the perspective of learning from China's experiences with such Zones and the impact of Chinese policy and investment on African Zones.

The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing state-of-the-art information, prepared by respected scientists in the field.

This volume aims to explore project management contributions to sustainable business change based on renewability, reuse, and repair as well as the effect of circular economy business solutions on project management in terms of the management approach, governance, and leadership.

Forced to embrace a post-carbon future, or risk serious damage to the planet, we have begun a race for alternatives to the scarce resources that previous generations relied on.

Forced to embrace a post-carbon future, or risk serious damage to the planet, we have begun a race for alternatives to the scarce resources that previous generations relied on.

During the last two decades, the European Union has come under increasing existential threat.

This book examines regional structural challenges on Colombia's path to sustainable social cohesion and regionally inclusive growth.

Japan today is caught up in chronic economic crisis, its financial system wracked by record-breaking bankruptcies and its companies hobbled by bad balance sheets, overproduction, and weak consumer demand.

The Economics of Globally Shared and Public Goods responds to an urgent need to consolidate and refine the economic theories and explanations pertinent to globally shared resources.

Handbook of Industrial Organization Volume 4 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

A decisive intervention in the "war" between generations, asking who stands to gain from conflict between baby boomers and millennials Millennials have been incited to regard their parents’ generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today.

A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choicesSelected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten books in Business and Economics for Spring 2021It is all but certain that the next century will be hotter than any we've experienced before.

How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable.

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This anthology of significant writings by eminent economists is, in part, a critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was very successful at the time it was instituted but which, because of its rigidity, failed in the end to address the economic problems of the post-war era.

Today, interest in monetary history has been revived.

An economist examines three modern forces that have redefined what money means, who controls it, and what the future of finance might look like.

This book provides a multidimensional analysis of Iran's struggle for development between 1970 and 2020.

"e;An interesting take on some factors that facilitate the development and bursting of bubbles in technology industries.

America is witnessing a retirement crisis.

Full text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.

This book illustrates and explains the consequences of neoliberal reform on rural economies.

This book examines the evolution and major elements of China's Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI), a trillion-dollar project for the revival and refinement of ancient terrestrial and maritime trade routes.

This book examines "e;New Localism' - exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.

This book discusses the various aspects, from production to marketing of turmeric and ginger, the world's two most important and invaluable medicinal spice crops.

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe.

This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them.

Regional Intelligence is an emerging field that leverages the lessons learned through decades of regional science.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production.

This book focuses on irrigation sources together with water management for agricultural development in Uttar Pradesh state of India.

Space is a crucial variable in any economic activity.

This book addresses the application of sustainable HRM principles within tourism in the specific context of Africa, a neglected area of study.

This book is part of a five-volume set that explores sustainability in textile industry practices globally.