A national buyout plan of eco-destroyers -- Needs and wants -- Housing: the case for "in kind" government ownership -- "In kind" health -- Taxing the rich: the time has come -- The corporate elite and the "magic" of the market -- Labor as a political force? -- Towards a democratic economy.

Introduction: Economics and "the Economy" -- How Economics forgot Capitalism -- Economics Caught in a Physics Masquerade -- Rethinking Science and Social Science with Critical Realism -- Rethinking Marx and the Economic Science of Capital -- The Uno-Sekine Reconstruction of Capital:...

This is the second volume in a two-part series on frontiers in regional research. It identifies methodological advances as well as trends and future developments in regional systems modelling and open science. Building on recent methodological and modelling advances, as well as on extensive...

The research and its outcomes presented here focus on spatial sampling of agricultural resources. The authors introduce sampling designs and methods for producing accurate estimates of crop production for harvests across different regions and countries. With the help of real and simulated...

The book provides an overview of some of the recent techniques that have been applied to an understanding of the structure of regional and interregional exchange within national economies. The issues range from an evaluation of NAFTA, comparisons of regional economies, structral change over time...

Advances in Spatial Science This series of books is dedicated to reporting on recent advances in spatial science. It contains scientific studies focusing on spatial phenomena, utilising theoretical frameworks, analytical methods, and empirical procedures specifically designed for spatial...