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...
In The Capitalist Revolution in Eastern Europe, László Csaba offers an applied economics interpretation of the modernization attempts which followed the collapse of the Soviet empire and of the state socialist experiment. This important ...
In Spatial Microeconomics, Melvin L. Greenhut argues that sellers in a space economy have the power to set prices, and that this power stems naturally from the geographic separation of markets.
Focusing on differentiated markets, this...
This title provides the most important essays and papers on urban and regional policy, making it a convenient summary of the key theories, approaches and research results.
The study of sub-national politics is no longer mainly concerned...
Urban and regional economics – in contrast to the rest of economics – places great emphasis on distance and location and the importance of spatial relationships.
Urban economics focuses on the city as a centre of economic activity wher...