Regional Economics

Handbook of Regions and Competitiveness

Edited by Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson

The aim of this Handbook is to take stock of regional competitiveness and complementary concepts as a means of presenting a state-of-the-art discussion of the contemporary theories, perspectives and empirical explanations that help make ...

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Economic Crisis and the Resilience of Regions

Edited by Gillian Bristow, Adrian Healy

The economic crisis of 2008-9 heralded the most severe economic downturn in the history of the European Union. Yet not all regions experienced economic decline and rates of recovery have varied greatly. This has raised new questions abou...

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Resilience, Crisis and Innovation Dynamics

Edited by Tüzin Baycan, Hugo Pinto

Resilience has emerged as a recurrent notion to explain how territorial socio-economic systems adapt successfully (or not) to negative events. In this book, the authors use resilience as a bridging notion to connect different types of th...

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Geography, Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Urban Gråsjö, Charlie Karlsson, Iréne Bernhard

Developed countries must be incredibly innovative to secure incomes and welfare so that they may successfully compete against international rivals. This book focuses on two specific but interrelated aspects of innovation by incumbent fir...

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The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects

Lasse Gerrits, Stefan Verweij

Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of proj...

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Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Luciana Lazzeretti, Marilena Vecco

This book investigates the evolving paradigm of creative industries and creative entrepreneurship, and their related economy over time. It explores different stages of the paradigm diffusion in ‘first generation countries’ such as the US...

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Globalization, International Spillovers and Sectoral Changes

Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Andreas P. Cornett, Tina Wallin

As a consequence of globalization, news, ideas and knowledge are moving quickly across national borders and generating international spillovers. So too, however, are economic and financial crises. Combining a variety of methods, concepts...

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Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries

Edited by Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jana Schmutzler, Marcela Suarez, Alessandra Faggian

This edited work offers a multidisciplinary perspective on innovation challenges and innovative practices in the context of developing and transition countries. The contributions mostly embrace a national innovation system approach in an...

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Time, Space and Capital

Åke E. Andersson, David Emanuel Andersson

In this challenging book, the authors demonstrate that economists tend to misunderstand capital. Frank Knight was an exception, as he argued that because all resources are more or less durable and have uncertain future uses they can cons...

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Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich

Edited by Iain Hay, Jonathan V. Beaverstock

Fewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world’s population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a unique examination of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes ...

Paperback (2017)

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Geographies of Growth

Edited by Charlie Karlsson, Martin Andersson, Lina Bjerke

Today we can observe an increasing spatial divide as some large urban regions and many more medium-sized and small regions face growing problems such as decreasing labour demand, increasing unemployment and an ageing population. In view ...

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