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Author : Ann R. Markusen
Publisher :
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business cycles
ISBN :
Author : Ann R. Markusen
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,79 MB
Release : 1985-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262132015
The dramatic shifts in heartland regional economies in the U.S. and other advanced industrial countries have thrown into question the ability of capitalist development to produce permanent growth, economic well being, and balanced regional development. This book develops a theory that radically reconceptualizes the economic forces producing regional change and tests it empirically for a set of fifteen sectors in the U.S. It offers a pioneering approach which should enable planners and managers to better cope with baffling changes in the current economic viability of regions. Traditional theories of regional development have failed to account for innovation and longrun structural change. They have ignored the role of corporate strategy and the existence of market power. Markusen's "profit-cycle theory" provides a key to understanding how, why, and when a region's leading industries undergo major changes. The theory is synthetic, building upon Schumpeterian and Marxist work on innovation and capitalist dynamics, upon the product cycle theories of business economists, and upon theories of oligopolistic behavior. Markusen argues that changing sources of profitability along an industry's evolutionary path will first concentrate and later disperse production geographically, setting in motion a methodically destabilizing process for regional economies. The profit-cycle theory is tested in depth against the steel sector's experience over a century, and against the experiences of sectors in different stages of development, ranging from innovative ones like semiconductors and computers, to mature and troubled sectors like automobiles, textiles, and lumber. The temporal and crosssectional data drawn from the census of manufactures support the theory and its spatial hypotheses. In a final chapter Markusen explores the implications of the research for regional development. Ann Markusen is Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley.
Author : Lloyd Rodwin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351594133
Originally published in 1989. This major book deals with deindustrialization and regional economic transformation in five regions of the USA: the industrial Midwest, the South, California, New England, and the New York metropolitan region. Four perspective studies then connect these diverse experiences to intra-metropolitan spatial adjustments, growth prospects for industry and services, and evolving regional theory and policy. An overview chapter sums up the main themes, common denominators and differences and some puzzles and unresolved issues. All concerned with the industrial and regional evolution of the USA – geographers, economists, planners, policy-makers, will find this authoritative survey useful.
Author : Costis Hadjimichalis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2005-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135785481
Published in the year 1986, Uneven Development and Regionalism is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.
Author : Michael French
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719041853
Since 1945 the US economy has evolved from an expanding consumer society in which affluence was more widely distributed than ever before. Mike French's volume examines the principal economic developments and social changes in the US since 1945, including those in business, regional dynamics, protest movements, and population distribution. Social movements based on the civil rights demands of African-Americans, ethnic minorities, and women are also examined. The elements of continuity to pre-1945 trends and the points of departure, notably in the post-1970 period, are discussed to provide a more complete examination than previously available.
Author : John Rees
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780847674091
Technology, Regions, and Policy examines the links between technological change, regional development, and government policy. This timely book provides a synthesis of recent scholarship-the results of original research projects carried out by a distinguished group of academics. It explores the complex questions of how high-technology areas develop, the factors influencing the spread of industrial technology, and the impact of technological change on labor creation and displacement.
Author : Suzanne Wiggins Helburn
Publisher : Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : John Pickles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1118632893
Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. Proposes a new theorization of global value chains as part of a conjunctural economic geography Develops a set of conceptual and theoretical arguments concerning the regional embeddedness of global production Draws on longitudinal empirical research from over 20 years in the Bulgarian and Slovakian apparel industries Makes a major intervention into the debate over the economic geographies of European integration and EU enlargement
Author : Richard Peet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134998376
Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from cultural to economic and urban geography. The authors explore the connections between political economy and geographical thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.
Author : Anthony P. D'Costa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317357256
International mobility is not a new concept as people have moved throughout history, voluntarily and forcibly, for personal, familial, economic, political, and professional reasons. Yet, the mobility of technical talent in the global economy is relatively new, largely voluntary, structurally determined by market forces, and influenced by immigration policies. With over a decade’s worth of extensive research in India, Japan, Finland, and Singapore, this book provides an alternative understanding of how capitalism functions at the global level by specifically analyzing the international movement of technical professionals between India and Japan. There are three factors that inform this study: the services transition away from manufacturing, the movement of technical professionals in the world economy, and the demographic crisis facing Japan. The dynamics of changing capitalism are examined by theorizing the emergence of the services sector in the USA and Japan, analyzing the pronounced social inequality in India that is the basis for the global supply of highly skilled technical professionals, and providing considerable empirical data on the flows of professionals to these two countries to indicate Japan’s institutional inflexibility in accommodating foreign talent. The author anticipates that Japanese industry will shed some of its institutional rigidity due to the pressures of competition and the scarcity of technical professionals. Providing a wealth of information on the topic of international mobility, this book is an essential addition for scholars and students in the field of International Development, Business Studies, Asian Studies, Migration Studies, and Political Economy.