With unemployment in the OECD countries approaching 30 millions, and with the Mitterrand regime providing yet another example of the failure of demand-led attempts at growth, this article considers the possibility of the advanced industrialised countries returning to a pattern of rapid growth...

This article argues that theories about the spatial distribution of poverty since World War II have always combined analyses of the impact of the built environment, of culture and of mobility of populations. However, the form taken by these combinations has varied with the logic of the...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Automation -- Chapter 3. Individualism and Solidarity -- Chapter 4. The Origins of Co-operation and Conflict -- Chapter 5. Nature and Science -- Chapter 6. Moral Regulation -- Chapter 7. Democracy, Communities and Interdependence -- Chapter 8. Globalisation...