This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy...

This book is a revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal original publication, providing a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics. Chapters address key issues like natural resources and environmental economics, while presenting a wide and integrative view...

The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most...

The traditional Marxian picture of a two-class polarisation seems far removed from today's diverse society. Re-examining the very foundations of the Marxian theory in the process, the author argues that important critiques can fruitfully be understood and to accomplish the goal, he extends the...

Der Wirtschaftswissenschaft wird nachgesagt, sie verfüge nicht über eine Basis an gesicherten, zwischen den Schulen einvernehmlichen, grundlegenden Aussagen. Die wirtschaftspolitische Not bringt es mit sich, dass über die fehlende Theoriebasis hinweg Eingriffsoptionen der anderen Doktrin...

This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted. Gilles provides new institutional concepts for wealth creation, such as network economies, which are based on the social division of labour. This volume...

This volume is a collection of selected papers using the framework of inframarginal analysis of the division of labour held at Monash University on 6-7 July 2001. This framework, pioneered mainly by Professor Xiaokai Yang, (with joint researches involving all the three editors and many of the...

Soziale Interaktionsprozesse bei Gründerteams -- Prototyping -- Unterstützung sozialer Interaktionsprozesse durch Prototyping -- Empirische Methodik -- Empirische Ergebnisse -- Schlussfolgerungen und Ausblick.