In the intermediate and long run energy prices and hence transportation costs are expected to increase significantly. According to the reasoning of the New Economic Geography this will strengthen the spreading forces and thus affect the economic landscape. Other influencing factors on the...

La città di Siracusa è situata nella parte sud est della Sicilia, isola a sud dell'Italia. E' capoluogo di provincia e confina a nord con la provincia di Catania ed a ovest con la provincia di Ragusa. Catania rappresenta un polo industriale ed economico molto avanzato mentre Ragusa è una...

This short essay, built on a foundation of more than a decade of fieldwork in the hydrocarbon-rich societies of the Arabian peninsula, distills a set of overarching threads woven through much of that time and work. Those threads include a discussion of the social heterogeneity of the Gulf State...