world, and (c) the diverse housing and shelter needs of urban populations. The book also explores a number of critical urban …

Preface -- Background: Chengdu in a Global Context -- Comprehensive Analysis of Existing Data: Chengdu in the World …: Business Success Stories and Inspiration -- Moving onto the World Stage -- Appendix -- References. … development in comparison with other world cities. Internally, it explores the behavior of companies within the city as the root …

world economies, explores the impact of the global debt crisis, identifies the income and wealth gaps in the United States … studies, globalization studies, and international relations …

the book find evidence for the originality and extreme heterogeneity of the forms of capitalism to be observed in …

Takes a proactive approach to addressing big issues of world poverty, economic development, and the impact of … globalization - with recommendations for business leaders, policymakers, and concerned citizens around the worldSamli offers an … alternative model, a philosophy and practice of 'social capitalism' that is grounded in a bottom-up approach to wealth creation …

, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and … our radical freedom to choose how we live and what we can become. Since the Great Recession, capitalism has been … ideology, subjectivity and power, specifically as they relate to broader discourses and everyday practices of capitalism and …

globalization. Dic Lo explores competing theories, with a view to constructing an alternative synthesis that transcends …

processes from agglomeration -- 5 Location theory of factory in the globalized world -- 5.1 Factory’s location in the globalized … world -- 5.2 Derivation of the profit function of a firm -- 5.3 Settlement of location prospective area -- 5.4 Firm … theory -- 6.2 City system built by using cities’ production functions -- 6.3 Change of city system in the real world -- 7 …