Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht zu erläutern, ob und in welcher Form Tourismus zu wirtschaftlicher und regionaler Entwicklung beitragen kann. Zur Einstimmung auf dies Thema werden zunächst grundsätzliche Überlegungen angeführt. Die vorgenommene, vom Allgemeinen ins Spezielle gehende...

Die vorliegende Arbeit versucht zu erläutern, ob und in welcher Form Tourismus zu wirtschaftlicher und regionaler Entwicklung beitragen kann. Zur Einstimmung auf dies Thema werden zunächst grundsätzliche Überlegungen angeführt. Die vorgenommene, vom Allgemeinen ins Spezielle gehende...

This paper discusses some aspects of the changing relationship between thestudy of economic history and development economics. Forty years ago thesubjects seemed to be quite closely linked in the sense that senior figuresstraddled both areas, the development history of the advanced countries...

Economists generally assume that the state has sufffcient institutional capacityto support markets and levy taxes, assumptions which cannot be taken forgranted in many states, neither historcally nor in today’s developing world.Our paper develops a framework where "policy choices" in market...

Joe is one a small group of influential economists who brought theorizing aboutdevelopment processes to a new level. In trying to understand the reasons why low pooreconomies remain so, he was among the first to appreciate the importance of informationand contracting issues. His seminal...

The emergence of new economic activities is the driving force of economic development. The development of such activities is often ‘lumpy’, manifesting itself in rapid growth of particular regions or sectors. Recognition of these facts requires a reorientation of the analytical frameworks...

Gibbs, D., Deutz, P. and Proctor, A. (2005) Industrial ecology and eco-industrial development: a potential paradigm for local and regional development?, Regional Studies 39 , 171-183. Increasingly, concepts such as sustainable development and ecological modernization have entered into local and...