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Rural Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Society

by Karl Bruckmeier & Hilary Tovey

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries. In doing so, it identifies key trends...


Technical Change and Economic Growth: Inside the Knowledge Based Economy

by George M. Korres

In this in-depth and detailed study, George Korres analyzes the macroeconomic and the microeconomic factors influencing the economics of innovation and the economic relations between technology, innovation,...


The Korean Economic System: Governments, Big Business and Financial Institutions

by Jae-Seung Shim & Moosung Lee

Presenting a fascinating and comprehensive analysis of economic development outside of the traditional neo-classical, developmental-state and dependency perspectives, this book examines in detail the evolution...


Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship: Urban Poverty Reduction in Latin America

by Jutta Gutberlet

Co-operative recycling practices have been increasingly used as a strategy to contest both the waste problem and urban poverty. By examining experiences from Brazil and other Latin American countries, this book...


Britain, the Euro and Beyond

by Mark Baimbridge & Philip B. Whyman

Through a critical examination of the relationship between the UK and the EU, this important book considers the historic and contemporary costs and benefits of EU membership, and assesses whether this has been...


Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific

by P.W. Daniels & J.W. Harrington

This book explores various aspects of the relationship between service industries and economic development in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Australia and New Zealand. It provides new sector-oriented...


Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities: Change and Challenges in Kano Nigeria

by Roy Maconachie

Peri-urban livelihood strategies have become an increasingly important survival mechanism in the context of rapid urban growth. This book uses an innovative combination of methodologies from both the natural...


Growth Management in Florida: Planning for Paradise

by Timothy S.Chapin & Charles E. Connerly

Drawing together contributions from experts on land use planning and growth management, this volume assesses the outcomes of Florida's approach for managing growth. In evaluating the successes and failures of...


Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation

by Heather Xiaoquan Zhang & Bin Wu

Economic transition in China has witnessed (re)centralization of resources from the margin to the core in economic, social and political senses. This book employs a marginalization lens to reveal, delineate...


Growth Management in the US: Between Theory and Practice

by Karina Pallagst

Many growth management ideas conflict with planning traditions in the USA, historically dominated by the concerns of the market, the landowner and the developer. Illustrated by a study of the San Francisco Bay...


Spiritual Capital: Spirituality in Practice in Christian Perspective

by Michael O'Sullivan & Bernadette Flanagan

Spiritual Capital seeks to re-focus discussion on core social values, on individuals' value systems and the internal dynamics that impel human beings to live by truth, goodness and love. This book defines, refines...


The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy

by Kenneth Heydon & Stephen Woolcock

The Ashgate Research Companion to International Trade Policy provides a state of the art review of current thinking on the full range of trade policy issues, addressing the economic and political dimensions...


The Trouble with Diversity

by Walter Benn Michaels

A brilliant assault on our obsession with every difference except the one that really matters--the difference between rich and poor If there's one thing Americans agree on, it's the value of diversity. Our...


Free Market Revolution

by Yaron Brook & Don Watkins

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A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand’s bold defense of free markets can help us change course.

 

The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election...


Borderless Economics

by Robert Guest

Acentury ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call - or Skype - home the moment their flight has landed, and that's just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel...


A Nation of Moochers

by Charles J. Sykes

We have experienced a shift in American character: we’ve become a nation of moochers. Increasingly dependent on the efforts of others over our own, Americans are free to freeload. From the corporate bailouts...


The Next Convergence

by Michael Spence

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011

With the British Industrial Revolution, part of the world’s population started to experience extraordinary economic growth—leading to enormous gaps in wealth...


Reckless Endangerment

by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011

One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year

The New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic...


Haiti

by Philippe Girard

Why has Haiti been plagued by so many woes? Why have multiple U.S. efforts to create a stable democracy in Haiti failed so spectacularly? Philippe Girard answers these and other questions, examining how colonialism...


As China Goes, So Goes the World

by Karl Gerth

In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the...