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But what do we really know about London''s super rich, and the lives they lead?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo find out more about this secretive elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them: bankers, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, \u003ci\u003eSerious Money\u003c\/i\u003e explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat''s recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''An eye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London'' Danny Dorling, author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Is Solid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth'' Anna Minton, author of \u003ci\u003eBig Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap, Caroline Knowles's eye-opening book\u003c\/b\u003e reveals how the capital has changed over the decades ... \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethe author's \u003cb\u003egentle, yet shrewd observations\u003c\/b\u003e quickly accumulate when seeking out a wide variety of individuals to reveal the quotidian culture of plutocracy. -- Misha Glenny * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eKnowles' book helps readers to see [London's super-rich] as less secretive, more troubling and a great deal sadder ... \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerious Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e has a serious mission.\u003c\/b\u003e These vast fortunes, Knowles argues, do not just make people miserable. They are rotting the ties that hold our society together. -- Edward Lucas * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKnowles's book acted on me like a goad, a stone in the shoe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e... The questing sociologist has an agenda. She is our nominated surrogate in occupied territory. And she is persistent ... Among the freakishly perverse bankers and investors, she behaves \u003cb\u003elike Orwell in Wigan.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Iain Sinclair * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAgain and again, Knowles's stories attest to a money machine devoted to nothing but its own perpetuation ... \u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of the great literary walkers\u003c\/b\u003e, from Walter Benjamin to Will Self, her insistence on crossing the city on foot is, in an important sense, \u003cb\u003ean act of resistance\u003c\/b\u003e, an embrace of urban realities in defiance of the sad confinement of extreme wealth, its smoked-glass segregation. -- Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating investigation of plutocratic London ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eas gripping as a pulp detective novel\u003c\/b\u003e in which we glimpse the slimy, far from slummy lives of the morally corrupt. She patrols London's elite enclaves with a sharp eye for telling social and architectural details ... Knowles \u003cb\u003ecombines cunning and charm.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Matthew Beaumont * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eeye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving\u003c\/b\u003e journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London. -- Danny Dorling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating, punchy, thought-provoking. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerious Money\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the corrosive impact of London's super rich on our economy, society and politics, and comprehensively busts the myth that their wealth trickles down to the rest of us. -- Frances O’Grady\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ewonderful and vital\u003c\/b\u003e account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth. -- Anna Minton, author of Big Capital\u003cbr\u003eStartling, spirited ... Knowles is alert to arresting details ... \u003cb\u003ea wry primer to the extravagances of the super rich.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex Diggins * The Critic *\u003cbr\u003eYears of footwork through the streets of central London have gone into producing this \u003cb\u003emagnificent but disturbing\u003c\/b\u003e book on the lives and influence of the super-rich. \u003cb\u003eKnowles writes with enviable lightness and pace\u003c\/b\u003e about how money, property, birth, breeding, contacts, secrecy, parasites and servants have created a class that owns and milks London, a world away from the city's ordinary citizens. \u003cb\u003eA powerful ethnography of plutocratic power.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Professor Ash Amin, author of Seeing Like a City\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003einnovative and disturbingly entertaining travelogue\u003c\/b\u003e covering one of the most important issues of our time ... could not have been published at a more critical time. -- Matt Reynolds * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eSociologist Caroline Knowles takes you through the neighborhoods of the capital city telling stories of how the ultra-wealthy live and work; how they spend their money, marry and divorce; and why London is one of the best places for those with nefarious intentions to hide money from authorities. * Investopedia - Best Economics Books of 2022 *\u003cbr\u003eA guided tour of the spaces and lifestyles of London's super-rich. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that draws the reader into spaces and conversations otherwise out of bounds, Knowles subtly exposes the paradoxes inherent within the life and politics of the super-rich in London. -- Sobia Ahmad Kaker * Soundings *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732515762519,"sku":"9780141994376","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141994376.jpg?v=1719997224"},{"product_id":"equity-growth-and-community-9780520284418","title":"Equity Growth and Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. This book argues that lessons for addressing these national challenges are emerging from a new set of realities in America's metropolitan regions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The text’s ultimate strength lies in its pedagogical usefulness as resource for methods classes. 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But it is written in a very accessible style, using the structure of a scientific detective story. And it is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of California and cities more broadly.\"—Jon Christensen, \u003ci\u003eSFGate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of Urban Economies\u003c\/i\u003e is a path-breaking book, both empirically and theoretically. It brings together an impressive array of data that helps explain the divergent economic trajectories of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles region, and provides new theoretical insights on the importance of social networks and knowledge communities in shaping economic growth.\"—Chris Benner, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\"Throughout history, commerce and cities have invented and paced each other. Once developed, cities entered into competition. Blending the perspectives of history, business, urban planning, and public\/private partnership, this lively and exhaustively documented study tells the story of how two representative urban regions—the Bay Area centered on San Francisco and Los Angeles, a metropolitan region unto itself— have carried on this ancient and ever new competition for commerce and hegemony.\"—Kevin Starr, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly original inquiry into the diverging development trajectories of Los Angeles and San Francisco since the 1970s. This book offers exemplary forensic evidence, while at the same time providing a robust theoretical appraisal of regional growth in general.\"—Allen J. Scott, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\"Storper and his colleagues have crafted a sweeping yet nuanced account of how the economies of metropolitan Los Angeles and San Francisco have steadily diverged over the past several decades. Their interpretation, based on a wealth of data and interviews, has important lessons for many urban regions struggling to maintain or improve their place in the global economy.\"—Edward J. Malecki, The Ohio State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents and Abstracts1The Divergent Development of City Regions chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eEconomic development is geographically uneven; incomes differ widely across places. After a long period during which incomes tended to become more even across cities and regions within developed countries, they are now diverging again. In 1970, the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles regions had very similar per capita incomes; in 2012, Los Angeles was almost 30 percent lower than the Bay Area. Understanding this process of divergence, which is widespread among metropolitan regions around the world, is a window on understanding economic development more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e 2Divergent Development: The Conceptual Challenge chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eInnumerable forces influence economic development, and research on it uses many different methods and comes from several disciplines. Four theoretical fields that contribute to understanding divergent economic development of city regions are development theory, regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the social science of institutions. Together, they provide a robust framework for understanding convergence and divergence in economic development.\u003c\/p\u003e 3The Motor of Divergence: High-Wage or Low-Wage specialization chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe specialization of urban regions in different tradable industries is the source of significant differences in wages and income levels. Los Angeles was more specialized than San Francisco in 1970 but considerably less specialized in 2010. During this period, San Francisco consolidated its specialization in activities related to information technology, and Los Angeles consolidated its hold on the entertainment industries, but Los Angeles lost many other high-wage specializations it formerly contained, replacing them with low-wage specializations. Los Angeles also lost its lead over San Francisco in innovative sectors, as the latter soared in its per capita patenting rate. All in all, Los Angeles's economy came to have less overall focus and sophistication, while San Francisco's came to have more.\u003c\/p\u003e 4The Role of Labor in Divergence: Quality of Workers or Quality of Jobs? chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eDifferences in average regional wages between San Francisco and Los Angeles increased from 5 percent in 1970 to 35 percent in 2010. Wage gaps are due partially to increasing differences in the skills of the labor force but are proportionally greater than the increase in skills gaps. Skills gaps themselves must also be explained. Do they emerge as different kinds of people migrate or stay according to different kinds of jobs created in the two regions? Or is it the reverse: people go to the two regions in search of lifestyle amenities and housing, and the two economies diverge by absorbing different kinds of people? This is the key debate in urban labor economics. This chapter shows that the key force in drawing different kinds of labor was an increasing gap in the types of employment available, itself driven by differences in regional economic specialization.\u003c\/p\u003e 5Economic Specialization: Pathways to Change chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eIndustries, firms, and entrepreneurs in the Bay Area and Los Angeles did not plan the economic divergence of their regions. They faced challenges from the restructuring of the Old Economy and benefited from the opportunities of the New Economy. Their successes and failures widened the income gap between the two regions. This chapter presents comparative case studies of entertainment, aerospace, information technology, logistics, and biotechnology in San Francisco and Los Angeles, showing how they developed differently and shaped specialization, wages, and income divergence in the two regions.\u003c\/p\u003e 6Economic Development Policies: Their Role in Economic Divergence chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eRegional economic development is shaped by many policies, which are implemented by national governments, regional and state governments, and local governments. But local economic development policies in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area since 1970 had little to do with the economic divergence of these two regions. In reality, many so-called economic development policies have little to do with economic development as such, instead emphasizing land use changes and competition for sales tax revenue rather than industry and job development. Many of the problems with local planning and development policies in the United States in general are exemplified by the comparison of the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e 7Beliefs and Worldviews in Economic Development: To Which Club Do We Belong? chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eDominant beliefs—those of political and economic entrepreneurs in a position to make policies—over time result in the accretion of an elaborate structure of institutions that determine economic and political performance. This chapter documents the worldviews and beliefs of regional leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles since 1970. In Los Angeles, leaders never developed a consistent vision of the new economy or the region's role in it; in San Francisco, this vision emerged early in the 1980s and was reinforced over time and diffused throughout the region's leadership institutions. Moreover, San Francisco's leadership institutions are stronger and more interconnected than those of Greater Los Angeles, and its political majorities are more consistent over time, leading to more consistent regional policy agendas.\u003c\/p\u003e 8Seeing the Landscape: The Relational Infrastructure of Regions chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eNetworks of people and organizations create \"invisible colleges\" in labor markets, industries, communities, and political leadership. They influence who gets access to other people and hence to implementing ideas and finding resources. This chapter measures the corporate, philanthropic, and leadership networks of the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles since 1980. It shows that they had similar starting points in terms of their structure of connections, but that they diverged. Principal firms and industries in Los Angeles became less connected, while in San Francisco they become more closely intertied, with broader and deeper connections among their boards of directors. Networks among scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and firms are much denser in San Francisco than in Greater Los Angeles. There are more industry-building dealmakers in the Bay Area than in Los Angeles. The relational infrastructures of the two regions have become more and more different over time.\u003c\/p\u003e 9Connecting the Dots: What Caused Divergence? chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe sources of economic divergence lie in their divergent levels and types of economic specialization. Specialization is caused by many forces, including lucky breakthroughs in technology, particular powerful individuals, decisions of key firms at critical turning points, and lock-in effects from initial advantages. Most of these forces cannot be predicted or created. But they must find fertile ground, and this ground is prepared by the ability of the regional economy's firms, leaders, and workers to create and absorb the organizational change that is key to new, high-wage industries. Los Angeles and San Francisco are a striking contrast in these abilities, with Los Angeles's firms and leaders persistently returning to Old Economy organizational forms and San Francisco's firms and leaders consistently inventing the organizational forms of the New Economy that become models for the American and world economies as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e 10Shaping Economic Development: Policies and Strategies chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eHigh-wage specialization comes from a complex sequence involving entrepreneurship, encouragement by local robust actors or leaders, breakthrough innovations, new organizational practices, the emergence of supportive overall relational infrastructure and networks, the proliferation of new specialized brokers and dealmakers, the diffusion of conventions or rules of thumb for doing business in new ways, and ultimately the consolidation of major firms. What is common to all processes of successful respecialization of a region's economy is the emergence of the right kinds of networks, organizational practices, worldviews, and beliefs for the region's evolving economic specializations. It is crucial to align understandings and change expectations so as to change policy agendas and to open up new forms of private action. When regional conversations are outdated, the process of organizational adjustment is stymied, as it has been in Los Angeles for 40 years. Old conversations must not crowd out new ones.\u003c\/p\u003e 11Improving Analysis of Urban Regions: Methods and Models chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe chapter assesses the contributions of regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the institutional approaches found in economics, sociology, and political science to the analysis of urban economic development. The concept of development clubs should guide empirical identification of city-regions that are in different structural categories and their different constraints and opportunities. Each theory has additional empirical and methodological gaps that can be improved on. If this is done, then the field of comparative regional economic analysis will be able to offer more robust insights into economic development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737392722263,"sku":"9780804789400","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804789400.jpg?v=1723811159"},{"product_id":"small-business-and-the-city-9781442612099","title":"Small Business and the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This book provides a rich analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of small firms in a dynamic context like Canada.' -- Alessandra Micozzi Scienze Regionali vol 16:01:2017 \"A most useful book, especially for the city planner, urban geographer, and anyone who cares about the future of cities. Relevant case analyses are embedded in a coherent structure that provides practical examples of past successes and failures as well as sensible policy recommendations for the future. Highly recommended.\" -- David K. Foot, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, and author of 'Boom, Bust \u0026amp; Echo: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Shift' \"Small Business and the City is a plea for a 'small is beautiful' approach to business, urban scale, and public sector decision-making. Gomez, Isakov, and Semansky's evocative descriptions of Business Improvement Areas teach far more about BIAs, their operations, and the thinking of their members than do tables of statistics on these organizations.\" -- Pierre Filion, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo \"Each atomistic transaction between a small business and a customer provides the flare for a rich economic eruption, encompassing spillovers and interactions with other firms, citizens, and the built environment. This book offers a bold explanation of how cities can succeed by nurturing and harnessing these powerful interactions to create dynamic communities and growing economies.\" -- Kevin Milligan, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, by Michael Thompson Acknowledgments * Introduction: Small Business and City Life  Part I: The View from Main Street  * The BIA Movement: Setting the Stage for Main Street Revitalization * The View from Main Street Halifax: The Challenge of Being the Big Fish  in a Small Pond * The View from Main Street Vancouver: A City Region with an Emerging Sense of  Place * The View from Main Street Toronto: The Bottom-Up, Top-Down Conundrum  Part II: Unlocking the Potential of Small-Scale Enterprise  * The \"Art and Science\" of Small Business Survival: Lessons in BIA Practice * Of People, Profits, and Place: Lessons in Local Economic Development * Small Business and the Main Street Agenda: Lessons in Public Policy * Recommendations for Making Small-Scale Enterprise a Transformative Force * Conclusion: Cities, Small Business, and Distributed Decision Making   Afterword:  Or ... Why Staying Small, Local, and Independent Matters to City Life   About the Authors Notes References Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739212165463,"sku":"9781442612099","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442612099.jpg?v=1720051507"},{"product_id":"urban-analytics-9781473958630","title":"Urban Analytics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light ofrapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization.At the same time, the way that data are used to understand urban systems has changed dramatically.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cem\u003eUrban Analytics\u003c\/em\u003eoffers a field-defining look at thechallenges and opportunities of using new and emerging data to study contemporary and future cities through methods including GIS, Remote Sensing, Big Data and Geodemographics.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Written in an accessible style and packed with illustrations and interviews from key urban analysts, this is a groundbreaking new textbook for students of urban planning, urban design, geography, and the information sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a comprehensive and timely consolidation of current thinking about urban analytics. The book is fizzing with new ideas, and brimming with practical examples of the science of doing. Compulsive student reading.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Paul Longley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban analytics is fast emerging as the core set of tools employed to deal with problems of big data, urban simulation, and demographics. This book is essential reading to all those involved in this newly emergent field, providing a new arsenal of analytic tools to make sense of how cities are being restructured.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Batty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban Analytics neatly interweaves an introduction to this emerging field, with an accessible discussion of enduring themes and new approaches in quantitative geography. An engaging text that will appeal to students in a range of disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e -- David O′Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis excellent starter text captures the excitement and enthusiasm of a new kind of urban research: one that exploits the vast new data resources that are becoming available, from social media, crowdsourcing, and sensor networks; and makes use of the unprecedented power of today′s computer technology. It fills an important gap, and will be an essential text for students in a wide range of disciplines, from civil, infrastructure, and transportation engineering to geography, planning, and urban studies.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Michael Goodchild\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUrban analytics has come of age!  This textbook by three leading scholars in data-driven and computational urban science is needed and welcome.  It is a fantastic resource for educating the next generation of urban scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Harvey J. 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I believe this book will be very helpful, and will recommend it for my students and (business) partners in city data projects.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nanda Piersma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuestioning the City through Urban Analytics Sensing the City Urban Data Infrastructure Visualizing the City Differences within Cities Explaining the City Generative Urban Systems Cities as Networks and Flows The Future of Urban Analytics","brand":"Sage Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739581329751,"sku":"9781473958630","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473958630.jpg?v=1723812247"},{"product_id":"scale-the-universal-laws-of-life-and-death-in-organisms-cities-and-companies-9781780225593","title":"Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and systematic fashion?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIs there a maximum size of cities? Of animals and plants? What about companies?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCan scale show us how to create a more sustainable future?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy applying the rigour of physics to questions of biology, visionary physicist Geoffrey West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes of mammals, they are all, to a large degree, scaled versions of each other. This speaks to everything from how long we can expect to live to how many hours of sleep we need. He then made the even bolder move of exploring his work's applicability to cities and to the business world. These investigations have led to powerful insights about the elemental natural laws that bind us together in profound ways, and how all complex systems are dancing to the same simple tune, however diverse and unrelated they may seem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eThe sort of big-ideas book that comes along only every few years\u003c\/b\u003e . . . This is a book full of \u003cb\u003ethrilling\u003c\/b\u003e ideas' * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eMagisterial\u003c\/b\u003e . . . you reach the end of this \u003cb\u003eprofound\u003c\/b\u003e, revealing book rewarded. West shows how scientific method \u003cb\u003ehelps to peel back the hidden reality of our world\u003c\/b\u003e. The concepts of physics dominated the last century. It is the concepts of biology - of networks, evolution and feedback dynamics - that are going to dominate the next' -- Matthew Syed * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eQuite dazzling\u003c\/b\u003e . . . The book proceeds by introducing one mathematical concept in each chapter (power laws, fractals and so on), and explaining it vividly through numerous examples drawn from biology, history, urban planning, and many other fields . . . \u003cb\u003ewritten with great joy and a disarming humility\u003c\/b\u003e' -- Steven Poole * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e'An \u003cb\u003eabsolutely riveting\u003c\/b\u003e read. Like the best detective story, West lays out the amazing challenge of understanding why animals, cities and companies all scale so uniformly and then skilfully lets us into the secrets that his detective work has uncovered. This book captures the spirit of science in the twenty-first century, revealing the deep connections not just across physics and biology but society and life. The book is \u003cb\u003ea perfect balance\u003c\/b\u003e between the big scientific story and West's own personal narrative. We accompany the author on his quest to face up to his own mortality while at the same time being exposed to the theoretical discoveries that West has pioneered in his \u003cb\u003egroundbreaking\u003c\/b\u003e work' -- Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Unknown \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is an\u003cb\u003e important and original\u003c\/b\u003e book, of immense scope. Geoffrey West is a polymath, whose insights range over physics, biology and the social sciences. 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Mr West manages to deliver a lot of theory and history accessibly and entertainingly . . . \u003cb\u003eProvocative and fascinating\u003c\/b\u003e' * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e'It's rare in the history of science that someone has \u003cb\u003ea big, bold, beautiful, stunningly simple new\u003c\/b\u003e idea that also turns out to be right. Geoffrey West had one. And \u003ci\u003eScale\u003c\/i\u003e is its story' -- Steven Strogatz, Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Joy of X \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey West's \u003ci\u003eScale \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelation\u003c\/b\u003e. 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George Maher argues inventively and rigorously for a much higher level of growth and prosperity than has hitherto been imagined, and also explains why, nonetheless, the Roman Empire did not achieve the transition which began in Georgian Britain. This book will have an enormous impact on Roman history and be required reading for all teachers and students in the field. It will also interest and provoke historians of the medieval and early modern periods into wondering why their economies failed to match the Roman level.  Part of the problem in assessing the Roman economy is that we do not have much in the way of numerical data, but Roman historians, who rarely have much statistical expertise, have not always recognised the potential of the data we do have. Dr Maher's reassessment of the economy of the Roman Empire has to use the same data as everyone else, but he is able to draw strikingly novel conclusions in two ways: first, by more statistically sophisticated use of a few crucial datasets and, second, by correlating and drawing a coherent picture across the whole economy. On grain yields, firstly, instead of getting bogged down in details of individual cases, George Maher shows how there is a remarkably consistent pattern from which outliers can be excluded, showing yields were much higher than normally assumed. He then demonstrates that high yields are in fact necessary to explain the exceptional urbanization of the Empire. Urbanization at this level in turn, as George Maher shows, has implications for consumption and commerce. He takes this further to show how high levels of trade imply high levels of sophistication in economic practices and mentality. 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Beyond a simplistic centre vs periphery opposition, the concept of a horizontal metropolis reveals the dispersed condition as a potential asset, rather than a limit, to the construction of a sustainable and innovative urban dimension.  Around 1990, Terry McGee, an urban researcher at the University of British Columbia, coined the term \"desakota\", deriving from Indonesian \"desa\" (village) and \"kota\" (city). Desakota areas typically occur in Asia, especially South East Asia. The term describes an area situated outside the periurban zone, often sprawling alongside arterial and communication roads, sometimes from one agglomeration to the next. They are characterised by high population density and intensive agricultural use, but differ from densely populated rural areas by more urban-like characteristics.  The new book The Horizontal Meteropolis investigates such areas alongside examples in the US, Italy, and Switzerland. 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Andrews * University of Colorado Denver *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Jones does a great job of dispelling myths that many of us hold about the advent of the automobile and the decline of public transit in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e * publictransport.about.com *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJones documents well the politics of postwar efforts by big city mayors to obtain federal aid for rail systems. . . . He provides good evidence for transit's very limited potential to solve the pressing problems of congestion, energy use, and global warming. . . . Highly recommended.March 2009\u003c\/p\u003e -- D. Brand * formerly, Harvard University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this sweeping history of urban transportation modernization and post-modernization in the United States, David Jones debunks popular explanations for the decline of mass transit and the rise of mass motorization. . . . offers a solid foundation for debating alternative theses that seek to account for technological change.Vol. 50 July 2009\u003c\/p\u003e -- Gregory Thompson * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a valuable and topical book which brings transport issues to the fore in American domestic and foreign policy. 43 2009\u003c\/p\u003e -- Margaret Walsh * University of Nottingham *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. U.S. Motorization in International Context\u003cbr\u003e1. Motorization in the United States and Other Industrial Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. U.S. Motorization in Historical Context\u003cbr\u003e2. Transit's American History, 1880–1929\u003cbr\u003e3. The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Pivotal Epoch in U.S. Transportation History\u003cbr\u003e4. World War II and Its Immediate Aftermath: The End of the Streetcar Era and the Beginnings of the Freeway Era\u003cbr\u003e5. The Interstate and Pervasive Motorization, 1956–80\u003cbr\u003e6. Transit's Conversion to Public Ownership\u003cbr\u003e7. U.S. Motorization since the OPEC Embargo\u003cbr\u003e8. The Competitive Difficulties of the U.S. Automakers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Evolving Challenges in an Evolved Environment\u003cbr\u003e9. The Changing Valance of U.S. Motorization\u003cbr\u003e10. The Road to Sustainable Motorization\u003cbr\u003e11. 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These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents' feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkin's comprehensive research. \u003ci\u003eCities for Profit\u003c\/i\u003e contains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCities for Profi\u003c\/i\u003et is theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich. It provides a comparative lens focusing on the role of the state in Asia's real estate turn. It is an ideal and useful text for graduate-level courses on comparative urbanism, urban politics, international planning, land development, and the state–society relationship. For researchers who are drawn to the merits of comparative urban studies, this book is invaluable.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Urban Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eScholars, policy makers, and urban planners could benefit from this excellent, comprehensive research. The reading is essential to students and scholars of urban theory and policy, urban studies in Asia, and Asian political economy in general.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCities for Profit provides a significant perspective on the current strategies being enacted across urban Asia by political actors. Beyond the specific megaprojects described in the case studies, readers will gain valuable information about the present state of land reforms and urban processes in these countries. Shatkin's careful analysis proves that the local manifestation of neoliberalizing forces is highly varied because of the historically and spatially contingent conditions shaping urban politics. In addition, the role of infrastructure as a significant component for urban megaproject development recurs throughout the book and is a subject that could be developed in further research. In conclusion, Cities for Profit deserves to be read by all researchers interested in the dynamics of contemporary Asian urbanism and the spatial forms that accompany new state strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e * International Journal of Urban and Regional research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShatkin's...in-depth analysis of the cases reveals agents maneuvering through, within, and around complex processes and structures; comparison of the cases permits discovery of patterns of similarity and difference. Following Jennifer Robinson, he also moves us beyond the macroforces of global integration and neoliberalism to give equal consideration to the microdynamics of place.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Origins and Consequences of the Real Estate Turn\u003cbr\u003e 2. 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Chongqing\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885908144471,"sku":"9781501711138","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501711138.jpg?v=1722538122"},{"product_id":"creative-networks-and-the-city-towards-a-cultural-political-economy-of-aesthetic-production-9783837613742","title":"Creative Networks and the City: Towards a","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and the knowledge-based economy by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalist restructuring, creative industries' policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation, and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies. 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The essays range from negotiations of the \"ethnic city\" in US literature and media, to studies of recent urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriation and conversion of urban spaces in the USA. 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In that, it advances the interpretation of such patterns, in terms of economies seen as complex evolving systems. The basic objects of analysis are the history of the emergence and development of modern capitalist economies and their current functionings. Indeed , the tall ambition of the book is to address two basic questions at the core of the whole economic discipline since its inception. They regard, first, the drivers and patterns of change of the capitalistic machine of production and innovation and, second, the mechanisms of coordina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book that, placing itself at the convergence between empirical evidence and analysis, lays all the foundations of a new economic paradigm, that of the economy as a complex evolutionary system. On this, the new generations of scholars will have to confront and start again to face the economy of the 21st century with adequate tools. * Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche *\u003cbr\u003eThis 'Manual' of complexity economics should really be called an Encyclopedia. It is an Ali-Baba cavern, lush with multidisciplinary ideas, historical anecdotes and insightful models. Researchers convinced that it is time to ditch the traditional framework of rational agents and economic equilibrium should read and digest this book, before trying to embrace the unfathomable and fascinating complexity of economic systems. * Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, École polytechnique, Paris and Capital Fund Management *\u003cbr\u003eEconomics has taken an empirical turn in the 21st Century, with data increasingly available on firms and households, importers and exporters, rich and poor. But the textbooks of economics have scarcely changed since the last century. In \"The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies\" we have an attempt to teach what is known, empirically, about the modern economic world. It is a much richer and more variegated world than is on display in the conventional texts, full of complexity and diversity, perpetually evolving. To understand dynamic economies of networks, operated by heterogeneous, boundedly rational people, this book is the place to start. * Robert L. Axtell, George Mason University *\u003cbr\u003eEvolutionary economics views the economy and society as a set of complex, intertwined, evolving systems. Over the last forty years, evolutionary economists have built up an impressive body of new theory and evidence, unified by the common theme \"Dynamics first!\" Giovanni Dosi's Foundations brings order to this brave new world. Working with experts in fields ranging from the history of technology, to innovation studies, corporate strategy, N-K models, growth, and industry evolution, Dosi lays out a comprehensive map of the entire territory, showing both its scope and diversity. This book will be as an invaluable guide to scholars from all disciplines who are seeking to understand how evolution affects economic systems. * Carliss Y. Baldwin, Harvard Business School *\u003cbr\u003eDestined to become a classic. This book is a huge leap forward for the community of Evolutionary Economics, and for Economics in general. A remarkable achievement, truly impressive in terms of the amount of material covered, and the vivid and reader-friendly exposition. This book is a gift from one of the most exciting and original thinkers of our time: Giovanni Dosi. Enjoy! * Alex Coad, Waseda Business School, Tokyo *\u003cbr\u003eAre economists missing the forest for the trees when it comes to growing the economy? Giovanni Dosi argues that while economics can tell us subtle features of innovation incentives, it misses the big picture of how innovations emerge, grow, and take over in a complex evolving economy. This book provides an indispensable map to that forest, highlighting a large body of research that helps answer these critical questions. * Jim Bessen, Boston University *\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging book offers a unique view of the economics behind technology, production, and industries. Its distinct perspective is engaging and sure to raise questions in readers' minds. * Chad Syverson, Chicago Booth School of Business *\u003cbr\u003eA resounding Declaration of Independence from the canons of conventional economics, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies Part One treats a breathtaking range of phenomena from a unified perspective emphasizing bounded rationality, learning and selection, endogenous technological change, path dependency, and the evolutionary dynamics of organizations and markets. A bold and impressive achievement that will leave the community of Evolutionary Economists hungry for Part Two. * Joshua M. Epstein, New York University *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Dosi offers a thought-provoking analysis of innovative processes. Zooming in to examine microfoundations in individual and organizational behaviors and zooming out to explain technological evolution and industry dynamics, this Manual builds a comprehensive model of the capitalist system and its evolution. A must-read for any innovation scholar. * Sarah Kaplan, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto *\u003cbr\u003eTo many of us the development of contemporary economies is an enigma that is difficult to ascertain from what is often offered in mainstream economic models. But what are alternative conceptions? In this fascinating volume, Giovanni Dosi takes on the challenging but tremendously important task to produce a framework for understanding the economy as a complex evolving system characterized by heterogeneous agents and their bounded rationality. Written as an admirably comprehensive manual, it draws upon half a century of his seminal contributions to evolutionary theorizing on economic and technical change. I highly recommend it to everyone in search for a complete yet structured understanding of the dynamic economic realities involving individuals, organizations, sectors and the economy. * Frederik Tell, Uppsala University *\u003cbr\u003eA book that, placing itself at the convergence between empirical evidence and analysis, lays all the foundations of a new economic paradigm, that of the economy as a complex evolutionary system. On this, the new generations of scholars will have to confront and start again to face the economy of the 21st century with adequate tools. * Mauro Gallegati, Università Politecnica delle Marche *\u003cbr\u003eThis 'Manual' of complexity economics should really be called an Encyclopedia. It is an Ali-Baba cavern, lush with multidisciplinary ideas, historical anecdotes and insightful models. Researchers convinced that it is time to ditch the traditional framework of rational agents and economic equilibrium should read and digest this book, before trying to embrace the unfathomable and fascinating complexity of economic systems. * Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, École polytechnique, Paris and Capital Fund Management *\u003cbr\u003eEconomics has taken an empirical turn in the 21st Century, with data increasingly available on firms and households, importers and exporters, rich and poor. But the textbooks of economics have scarcely changed since the last century. In \"The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies\" we have an attempt to teach what is known, empirically, about the modern economic world. It is a much richer and more variegated world than is on display in the conventional texts, full of complexity and diversity, perpetually evolving. To understand dynamic economies of networks, operated by heterogeneous, boundedly rational people, this book is the place to start. * Robert L. Axtell, George Mason University *\u003cbr\u003eEvolutionary economics views the economy and society as a set of complex, intertwined, evolving systems. Over the last forty years, evolutionary economists have built up an impressive body of new theory and evidence, unified by the common theme \"Dynamics first!\" Giovanni Dosi's Foundations brings order to this brave new world. Working with experts in fields ranging from the history of technology, to innovation studies, corporate strategy, N-K models, growth, and industry evolution, Dosi lays out a comprehensive map of the entire territory, showing both its scope and diversity. This book will be as an invaluable guide to scholars from all disciplines who are seeking to understand how evolution affects economic systems. * Carliss Y. Baldwin, Harvard Business School *\u003cbr\u003eDestined to become a classic. This book is a huge leap forward for the community of Evolutionary Economics, and for Economics in general. A remarkable achievement, truly impressive in terms of the amount of material covered, and the vivid and reader-friendly exposition. This book is a gift from one of the most exciting and original thinkers of our time: Giovanni Dosi. Enjoy! * Alex Coad, Waseda Business School, Tokyo *\u003cbr\u003eAre economists missing the forest for the trees when it comes to growing the economy? Giovanni Dosi argues that while economics can tell us subtle features of innovation incentives, it misses the big picture of how innovations emerge, grow, and take over in a complex evolving economy. This book provides an indispensable map to that forest, highlighting a large body of research that helps answer these critical questions. * Jim Bessen, Boston University *\u003cbr\u003eThis wide-ranging book offers a unique view of the economics behind technology, production, and industries. Its distinct perspective is engaging and sure to raise questions in readers' minds. * Chad Syverson, Chicago Booth School of Business *\u003cbr\u003eA resounding Declaration of Independence from the canons of conventional economics, The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies Part One treats a breathtaking range of phenomena from a unified perspective emphasizing bounded rationality, learning and selection, endogenous technological change, path dependency, and the evolutionary dynamics of organizations and markets. A bold and impressive achievement that will leave the community of Evolutionary Economists hungry for Part Two. * Joshua M. Epstein, New York University *\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Dosi offers a thought-provoking analysis of innovative processes. Zooming in to examine microfoundations in individual and organizational behaviors and zooming out to explain technological evolution and industry dynamics, this Manual builds a comprehensive model of the capitalist system and its evolution. A must-read for any innovation scholar. * Sarah Kaplan, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto *\u003cbr\u003eTo many of us the development of contemporary economies is an enigma that is difficult to ascertain from what is often offered in mainstream economic models. But what are alternative conceptions? In this fascinating volume, Giovanni Dosi takes on the challenging but tremendously important task to produce a framework for understanding the economy as a complex evolving system characterized by heterogeneous agents and their bounded rationality. Written as an admirably comprehensive manual, it draws upon half a century of his seminal contributions to evolutionary theorizing on economic and technical change. I highly recommend it to everyone in search for a complete yet structured understanding of the dynamic economic realities involving individuals, organizations, sectors and the economy. * Frederik Tell, Uppsala University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1: Introduction 2: Development and Growth as Institutionally Embedded Evolutionary Processes 3: Innovation as an Evolutionary Process 4: Behaviours, Learning, and Organizations in Complex and Evolving Environments 5: Formal Models of Learning, Innovation, and Diffusion 6: Knowledge, Procedures, and Input\/Output Relations 7: Consumer Behaviours 8: Markets and their Organization 9: The Structure and Evolution of Industries References","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083380400471,"sku":"9780192866042","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192866042.jpg?v=1725548742"},{"product_id":"entrepreneurial-ecosystems-in-cities-and-regions-9780192866264","title":"Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Cities and Regions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of ''entrepreneurial ecosystems'' has emerged as a means for theorizing and making policy-decisions concerning entrepreneurship and economic development within and across cities and regions. 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The book develops an agenda and understanding that aims to build upon the early explosion of interest within academic, policy, and practice circles by providing new and important insights that contribute to knowledge, direct future investigations, and to increase the effectiveness of research-based policy and practice.Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Cities and Regions builds a framework for establishing a robust an","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083380498775,"sku":"9780192866264","price":130.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192866264.jpg?v=1725548742"},{"product_id":"the-politics-of-order-in-informal-markets-9781108833493","title":"The Politics of Order in Informal Markets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProperty rights are important for economic exchange, but many governments don''t protect them. Private market organizations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce agreements, but with this power comes the ability to extort group members. Under what circumstances, then, will private organizations provide a stable environment for economic activity? Based on market case studies and a representative survey of traders in Lagos, Nigeria, this book argues that threats from the government can force an association to behave in ways that promote trade. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that private good governance in developing countries thrives when the government keeps its hands off private group affairs. Instead, the author argues, leaders among traders behave in ways that promote trade primarily because of the threat of government intrusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Grossman has written a gem of a book. 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It is a remarkable reference book for researchers in urban studies and governance.' Taibat Lawanson, University of Lagos\u003cbr\u003e'Based on extensive fieldwork in Lagos, Grossman investigates the inner workings of Nigerian market activity. The book illustrates how private governance institutions often govern complex market arrangements and do so better in the shadow of the state. It offers a new and compelling analysis of the relationship between states and markets that challenges those studying developing economies to pay closer attention to governance provided by market participants themselves. It is a rigorous, fascinating, and important contribution to our understanding of institutions. Highly recommended.' David Skarbek, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e'Can private governance promote trade and economic development? Shelby Grossman offers a persuasive theory that nonstate governance performs best precisely when states also regulate economic affairs. Meticulous survey and qualitative evidence from markets in Nigeria reveals how informal leaders promote cooperation and enforce property rights precisely when trying to avoid government meddling. The result is a fresh perspective on some of the most fundamental questions about state-society relations in political economy.' Alisha Caroline Holland, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction; 2. Market Associations: An Overview; 3. Conducting a Representative Survey of Informal Traders; 4. A Calm Sea Does Not Make a Good Sailor: A Theory of Private Good Governance; 5. Government Threats and Group Leader Strength; 6. Business is Secret: Government Threats and Within-Group Competition; 7. Private Groups in Comparative Perspective; A. Appendix to Chapter 2 – Market Associations: An Overview; B. Appendix to Chapter 3 – Conducting a Representative Survey of Informal Traders; C. Appendix to Chapter 4 – A Calm Sea Does Not Make a Good Sailor – A Theory of Private Good Governance; D. Appendix to Chapter 6 – Government Threats and Within-Group Competition; E. Appendix to Chapter 7 – Private Groups in Comparative Perspective.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083835351383,"sku":"9781108833493","price":99.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108833493.jpg?v=1725550169"},{"product_id":"the-urban-field-9781788214513","title":"The Urban Field","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA critical examination of the relationship between capital and the state, and the generation of an urban governmentality centred on the economization of knowledge and technology. A rethinking of the role of contemporary urbanism in today's knowledge-intensive capitalism.","brand":"Agenda Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084392964439,"sku":"9781788214513","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788214513.jpg?v=1725552005"},{"product_id":"gentrification-is-inevitable-and-other-lies-9781839767548","title":"Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it?  Leslie Kern, author of the best selling \u003ci\u003eFeminist City\u003c\/i\u003e, travels from Toronto, New York, London, Paris and San Francisco and scrutinises the myth and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst observed in 1950s London, and theorised by leading thinkers such as Ruth Glass, Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin, this devastating process of displacement now can be found in every city and most neighbourhoods. Beyond the Yoga studio, farmer's market and tattoo parlour, gentrification is more than a metaphor, but impacts the most vulnerable communities.  Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the crisis that seek to reveal the violence based on class, race, gender and sexuality. She argues that gentrification is not natural That it can not be understood in economics terms, or by class. That it is not a question of taste. That it can only be measured only by the physical displacement of certain people. Rather, she argues, it is an continuation of the setter colonial project that removed natives from their land. And it can be seen today is rising rents and evictions, transformed retail areas, increased policing and broken communities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if gentrification is not inevitable, what can we do to stop the tide? In response, Kern proposes a genuinely decolonial, feminist, queer, anti-gentrification. One that demands the right to the city for everyone and the return of land and reparations for those who have been displaced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA concise but also comprehensive account of gentrification, offering solutions and understanding of one of the major social battlegrounds of our times. -- Danny Dorling, author of \u003ci\u003eInequality and The 1%\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent job of puncturing the myths and exposing the ideologies that make gentrification seem natural, inevitable, and desirable. And with incisive clarity, she develops an account of what a radical, intersectional anti-gentrification politics might look like. -- David Madden, co-author of In \u003ci\u003eDefense of Housing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping and fluid new book on gentrification. Kern expertly weaves theory, concepts, and up-to-date debates about gentrification together, making it accessible not only to urban scholars but to general readers too. A superb book I would have liked to have written but didn't. A must-read for anyone interested in gentrification. -- Loretta Lees, Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University, USA\u003cbr\u003eConfronts gentrification with a multidimensional and intersectional critique, revealing the process of urban 'improvement' as an unending campaign of social exclusion and a biting metaphor for making money. She combines her own experience as a city dweller with extensive social research to provide both a call for creative collective action and a good read. -- Sharon Zukin, author of \u003ci\u003eNaked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the forced removal of Indigenous people to the redlining of Black neighbourhoods, from the disenfranchisement of women through suburbanization to the expulsion of the LGBTQ+ community, Kern's writing is a rallying cry for the decolonization of placemaking and a blueprint for an urbanism rooted in social justice and fairness. -- Christine Murray, editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eThe Developer\u003c\/i\u003e and director of the Festival of Place\u003cbr\u003eKern is a wonderful writer, and this compelling, important, and highly original intervention in the gentrification debates is a staggering tour de force. At once a devastating critique of the limitations of established perspectives on gentrification and a convincing plea for an intersectional approach, this book offers sparklingly clear analysis and numerous possibilities for political action. Anyone who reads it will never forget it -- Tom Slater, author of \u003ci\u003eShaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this clear and smartly written book, Leslie Kern brings together some of the most recognizable and essential elements of urban gentrification, making this familiar and ubiquitous term strange, in the most effective and generative ways. \u003ci\u003eGentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies\u003c\/i\u003e arms geographers, cultural theorists, planners, and the general public with an essential understanding of the myths, markings, and formation of global gentrification -- Brandi Thompson Summers, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 10 succinct chapters, Kern defines and outlines the current arguments surrounding gentrification while focusing on the inability to adequately discuss it with each other or within communities. Each chapter contains solid examples of where, when, and why gentrification is appearing in communities, and what the impact is on each respective group. The impact of gentrification on race, class, gender, age, and Indigenous peoples are astutely explored...A first class analysis and tool kit. -- Tina Panik * Library Journal, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e[Kern] ends with a decisive call to action, broken down into small, accessible, and implementable steps. It emphasizes that gentrification touches everyone's lives, and that everyone therefore has a responsibility to devote their specific skills to reducing its impact on vulnerable populations. \u003ci\u003eGentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies\u003c\/i\u003e is a humane analysis of the many contributing and consequential factors of urban takeovers. * Foreword Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on research from Buenos Aires, Chicago, Toronto, and other cities, Kern documents neighborhoods in the process of change and those that have stopped or reshaped gentrification. She lucidly explains modern feminist and urban theories and brings fresh insights and a measure of hope to a vexing social issue. [A] searing yet inspirational polemic. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the likes of Jane Jacobs and Sharon Zukin, urban scholar Leslie Kern proposes an intersectional way at looking at the gentrification crisis amid our current economic climate, based on class, race, gender, and sexuality. * Fortune *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies\u003c\/i\u003e is an accessible read thanks to Kern's storytelling skills and her conscious intent to write for a broad audience outside of academia. * Quill \u0026amp; Quire *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London and Paris to look at how gentrification is killing our cities and what we can do about it. She examines the often invisible forces that shape urban neighbourhoods, including settler colonialism, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism and how city lovers can work together to turn the tide. * CBC, 60 works of nonfiction to watch for in fall 2022 *\u003cbr\u003eLeslie Kern dissects seven common myths about gentrification, asserting that any study of the urban phenomenon should be examined not only in terms of class but also through the lenses of queer-feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial points of view. The final chapter explores these three frameworks in depth, offering actionable steps toward a more equitable urbanism that centers such concepts as infrastructures of care, Land Back movements, reparations, and environmental justice. * Metropolis Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies\u003c\/i\u003e challenges a number of well-entrenched perspectives on gentrification from the anticapitalist left as well as the market-minded right...Kern's book is thorough in its intersectionality. -- Scott McLemee * Inside Higher Ed *\u003cbr\u003e[\u003ci\u003eGentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies\u003c\/i\u003e] examines the forces behind displacement in North America and beyond, arguing for an intersectional way of understanding gentrification, one that acknowledges the harms done to working people based not just on class but also on race, gender, and sexuality. The problem is vastly greater than the individual choices of the middle-class. -- Michael Friedrich * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003eKern makes an informed, engaging, and impassioned case. -- Richard Harris * Journal of Urban Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XI \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS . . . 1 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS NATURAL 17 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS ABOUT TASTE 31 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS ABOUT MONEY 51 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS ABOUT CLASS 71 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS ABOUT PHYSICAL DISPLACEMENT 103 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS A METAPHOR 133 \u003cbr\u003eGENTRIFICATION IS INEVITABLE 151 \u003cbr\u003eCHANGE THE STORY, CHANGE THE ENDING 175","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49372591292759,"sku":"9781839767548","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839767548.jpg?v=1730163477"},{"product_id":"from-boom-to-bubble-9780226294483","title":"From Boom to Bubble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and corporate headquarters abandoned their historic downtown office buildings for the millions of brand-new square feet that were built elsewhere in the central business district. What causes construction booms like this, and why do they so often leave a glut of vacant space and economic distress in their wake?  In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings when they have financial incentives to do so. Focusing on the main causes of overbuilding during the early 2000s, Weber documents the case of Chicago's Millennial Boom, showing that the Loop's expansion was a response to global and local pressures to produce new assets.   An influx of cheap cash, made available through the use of complex financial instruments, helped transform what started as a boom grounded in modest occupant demand into a speculative bubble, where pricing and supply had only tenuous connections to the market. 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Her sophisticated and nuanced understanding of complex systems like global finance and real estate markets is conveyed easily and accessibly to those both inside and outside of academia. \u003ci\u003eFrom Boom to Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution, one that will most certainly be widely read and discussed for years to come.” * Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *\u003cbr\u003e“Weber offers an innovative and valuable approach, contributing important new insights and understanding to a multidisciplinary audience. \u003ci\u003eFrom Boom to Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e will be widely read as it contributes to the long standing and enduring scholarly focus on Chicago as the paradigmatic city and as a timely explication of financialization, the defining moment of the twenty-first century. Weber has an extraordinary depth of knowledge and she writes in an engaging and readable style that explains complex material in an accessible and understandable manner. This book solidifies Weber’s position as one of the leading scholars of the urban built environment.” * Robert W. Lake, Rutgers University *\u003cbr\u003e“In her focus on the role of property developers and their interactions with other agents in the construction process, Weber brilliantly shows the determining and indeterminate factors that create real estate booms and busts. A must-read for planners, geographers, urban sociologists, and political scientists—and anyone concerned with the forces building and rebuilding cities.” * Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design and author of The City Builders *\u003cbr\u003e“The downtown Chicago skyline added many high-rise office structures during the first decade of the 2000s, even though existing buildings provided sufficient space for their tenants. Why this happened and whether it was justified is the concern of Weber. Her findings identify this ‘speculative bubble’ as a composite product of the abundant global supply of capital, the ambitions of a host of real estate professionals to inflate demand for new office space, and the pro-growth Chicago government’s fiscal incentives for such expansion. They promoted the ideology that the constant renewal of a city is socially and economically beneficial and necessary to progress. This is a well-documented analysis of a trend common to many other US cities. Weber’s challenge is that such overbuilding is wasteful and can be restrained. ‘Slow, smart cities’ that are environmentally more sensitive have distinct advantages over rapid downtown expansion. A concluding chapter catalogs methods by which city officials can practice life-cycle and reuse planning to take a broader view of building costs and their impact upon residents. This is a solid analysis and critique of this trend. Recommended.” * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Weber’s \u003ci\u003eFrom Boom to Bubble \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to planners, geographers, sociologists, political scientists, and historians who appreciate a critical perspective on global real estate and capital flows and those who study global financial crises. This is outstanding scholarship, and offers deep insights into the dynamic real estate markets of this Millennial era.” * Journal of the American Planning Association *\u003cbr\u003e“Weber offers a conceptually, theoretically and methodologically innovative and empirically detailed account of the operation of the commercial real estate market in Chicago, drawing on a longitudinal ‘elite ethnography’ in a lucid and engaging way. . . . She has not just given us a valuable analysis of what happened in Chicago in the 2000s, but has sketched an extensive research agenda. This book deserves to be widely read.” * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Weber’s subject matter in this very good book is a phenomenon that has fascinated and vexed urban scholars and economists of various hues for at least a century: city-building booms and subsequent busts. Although at various points, especially in the book’s final chapter, Weber observes and reflects upon the consequences of these boom-and-bust cycles––indeed in the same chapter she even boldly ponders potential ‘solutions’, in the form of possible methods of modulating these all-too-familiar development frenzies––consequences are not her main concern. Causes are what principally animate this book and its author. How, in short, can we explain the repeating tendency, particularly in the United States, for urban overbuilding? Weber explores and attempts to answer this question largely through a marvelously informed and detailed case study of Chicago.” * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFrom Boom to Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e is a careful, convincing, and very readable account of how the real estate bubble that fueled the Great Recession happened, and Weber indicates, could well happen again. Weber builds a case for how all the stakeholders in the process – developers, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers, appraisers, building managers, real estate lawyers, permit expediters, mayors, and planners – face incentives to fuel a boom to such an extent that it becomes a bubble, with real estate investment continuing unabated even when demand no longer exists and vacancy rates are high.” * Planning Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003e“Weber’s recent book offers a landmark contribution to the scholarship of urban studies. Written in a sharp and vivid style, and drawing from an intimate knowledge of Chicago, \u003ci\u003eFrom Boom to Bubble\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes an impressive work. Combining empirically-rich material with theoretically-informed research, Weber achieves the feat of bringing a strikingly new perspective to the much-debated question of why urban development is prone to overbuilding.” * Planning Theory and Practice *\u003cbr\u003e“This superb, well-written book should be required reading for anyone studying or practicing in the field of real estate. It will also be of interest to planners and government officials; those with an interest in urban sociology, geography, economics, and planning; and general readers who want a clear explanation of the commercial real estate boom to sit beside the cornucopia of books about the residential real estate bubble or who are taxpayers in the City of Chicago. Weber asks the hard questions and gets readers to rethink the taken-for-granted ideas that underlie the heuristics we use for modeling and explaining the real estate process, narrowing the gap between the academic literature and the everyday work of real estate development.” * Journal of Real Estate Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Why We Overbuild\u003cbr\u003e Part 1 Real Estate Speculations\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Rhythm of Urban Redevelopment\u003cbr\u003e 2 Fast Money Builds the Speculative City\u003cbr\u003e 3 Out with the Old: How Professional Practices Construct the Desire for New Construction\u003cbr\u003e Part 2 Chicago in the 2000s\u003cbr\u003e 4 Downtown Chicago’s Millennial Boom\u003cbr\u003e 5 Who Overbuilt Chicago?\u003cbr\u003e 6 Making the Market for Chicago’s New Skyscrapers\u003cbr\u003e Part 3 Building the Future\u003cbr\u003e 7 The Slow Build\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Why We Will Continue to Overbuild\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400134402391,"sku":"9780226826592","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226826592.jpg?v=1730469842"},{"product_id":"flywheels-9780231199544","title":"Flywheels","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom Alberg, a venture capitalist who was one of the first investors in Amazon, draws on his experience in Seattle’s tech boom to offer a vision for how cities and businesses can build a brighter future together. He explores how cities can soar to prosperity by creating the conditions that encourage innovation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTom saw something in Amazon before most people did. . . . That leap of faith led to a long-term partnership as Tom continued to collaborate with me over more than two decades on Amazon’s board. -- Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, Amazon\u003cbr\u003eEmpowering everyone and every organization on the planet to achieve more begins locally. In \u003ci\u003eFlywheels,\u003c\/i\u003e Tom Alberg delves into how the Seattle area and other communities are building tech platforms that drive innovation while also doing good, providing a thoughtful approach to building livable communities that we can all learn from. -- Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, Microsoft\u003cbr\u003eThroughout his distinguished career, Tom Alberg has been at the center of companies that have come to define Seattle, including Boeing, McCaw, and Amazon. In \u003ci\u003eFlywheels,\u003c\/i\u003e Alberg provides a view into the boardroom decisions that shaped these companies combined with a citizen's view of both the resulting prosperity and problems. Alberg provides insightful analysis of the key inputs to the flywheel for creating a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in other cities as well as solutions to the resulting traffic and housing crisis in Seattle. A must-read for any business and civic-minded leader. -- Bill Carr, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWorking Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you really want to understand how to build a tech hub, read this book. Tom Alberg, a leading venture capitalist, tells the inside story of how and why Seattle's culture of openness and risk propelled it to the leading ranks of global innovation centers, home to companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and more. But Alberg goes beyond tech boosterism to create a guidebook and game plan for addressing today's new urban crisis of housing unaffordability, inequality, and homelessness. 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Times Higher Education Supplement McMahon has written a serious and important book on the economics of higher education... This book is a must-read for students interested in the economics of higher education and should be included as a required reading in such courses... McMahon's extension and revitalization of human capital theory in higher education should be of interest to a general readership in the field. Journal of Higher Education This extraordinary book patiently, thoughtfully, and thoroughly provides the conceptual framework for understanding the higher education market, the empirical findings about what that market produces and the policy prescriptions needed to make it work better in the future. Review of Higher Education No one else before McMahon has systematically and comprehensively presented the whole picture of higher education benefits and provided a valuation of the private and social non-market benefits. Higher Education This is a significant contribution to both theory and research findings in the study of investment in higher education... Highly recommended. Choice The overwhelming success of this work is that McMahon has articulated clearly and succinctly what students, their families, and governments are getting for their investment in higher education. Journal of Education Finance A timely and insightful text... Academic advisors who want to show their students that a college degree offers benefits beyond starting salaries and career opportunities will find this book to be a valuable resource. NACADA Journal It is not surprising that there is a growing interest in the private and social benefits of higher education and discussion of who should pay for what. Professor McMahon's book... is central to this debate. Academic Matters The first book to systematically identify and develop the evidence necessary to measure comprehensively the benefits of higher education and to estimate their economic value. Rorotoko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e1. What Is the Problem?\u003cbr\u003e2. Challenges Facing Higher Education Policy\u003cbr\u003e3. Higher Education and Economic Growth\u003cbr\u003e4. Private Non-Market Benefits of Higher Education and Market Failure\u003cbr\u003e5. Social Benefits of Higher Education and Their Policy Implications\u003cbr\u003e6. University Research\u003cbr\u003e7. New Higher Education Policies\u003cbr\u003e8. New Strategies for Financing Higher Education\u003cbr\u003eAppendixes\u003cbr\u003eA. Correcting for Ability Bias in Returns to Higher Education\u003cbr\u003eB . A Simplified Dynamic Model with Higher Education Externalities\u003cbr\u003eC. Valuing the Effects of Higher Education on Private Non-Market Outcomes\u003cbr\u003eD. Higher Education and Growth, U.S. and OECD Countries, 1960–2005\u003cbr\u003eE. 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Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades warn of increasingly blurred boundaries among higher education, the state and the world of commerce. -- Sharon Singleton Connection 2005 The writers have made careers out of studying the issues they write about. They certainly have done their homework. -- Charles Pekow Community College Week 2005 Slaughter and Rhoades offer the most coherent account of how the academy is mired in commercialism. -- Roger W. Bowen Academe 2005 Unlike other recent popular works,... this one is not critical or afraid of intersections of higher education and the world of corporate sponsorships; the authors just want to help universities exploit these new opportunities for fun and profit. Choice 2005 Provides a densely detailed and chilling description of the current 'state' of the university in the United States. -- Alison Hearn Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 2006 Represents a timely scholarly work that unveils the complex development of academic capitalism and calls for a critical re-examination of the mission of higher education institutions. -- Huey-li Li Educational Foundations 2005 An impressive book and a major contribution to knowledge... The theory of academic capitalism presented in its pages will certainly stimulate and guide further studies in higher education for some time to come... All students of the educational arrangements in the new economy will find themselves in debt to the authors for their farreaching theory of academic capitalism, the wide variety of studies they offer to confirm it, and for the standard they set and the model they provide for subsequent work. -- Leonard J. Waks Teachers College Record 2005 The strength of this volume is their treatment of the impact of academic capitalism on academic work. -- Edward P. St. John Contemporary Sociology 2005 This carefully argued and documented book fosters critical understanding of, if not the possibilities for 'regime change,' the implications of our actions. -- Susan Talburt Review of Higher Education Perhaps the best book for understanding the commercialization and commodification within higher education is Slaughter and Rhoades's Academic Capitalism and the New Economy... It tracks the deep and pervasive changes in policy and practice that have created new social network and organizational structures, vastly changing the function and role of higher education to serve corporate interests... and covers a variety of topics including expansion of patenting and patent policies, copyright policies, ownership of courseware and teaching materials, entrepreneurial activities by departments, corporate connections of university trustees, and advertising and branding contracts. -- Adrianna Kezar Journal of Higher Education 2008 An important and much needed critical perspective. -- Irwin Feller, Professor Emeritus, Economics, Pennsylvania State University Journal of Higher Education\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. The Theory of Academic Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e2. The Policy Climate for Academic Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e3. Patent Policies: Legislative Change and Commercial Expansion\u003cbr\u003e4. Patent Policies Play Out: Student and Faculty Life\u003cbr\u003e5. Copyright: Institutional Policies and Practices\u003cbr\u003e6. Copyrights Play Out: Commodifying the Core Academic Function\u003cbr\u003e7. Academic Capitalism at the Department Level\u003cbr\u003e8. Administrative Academic Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e9. Networks of Power: Boards of Trustees and Presidents\u003cbr\u003e10. Sports 'R' Us: Contracts, Trademarks, and Logos\u003cbr\u003e11. Undergraduate Students and Educational Markets\u003cbr\u003e12. The Academic Capitalist Knowledge\/Learning Regime\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405207806295,"sku":"9780801892332","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"financing-higher-education-worldwide-who-pays-who-should-pay-9780801894589","title":"Financing Higher Education Worldwide Who Pays Who","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinancing Higher Education Worldwide combines sophisticated economic explanations with sensitive political and cultural analyses of the financial pressures facing higher education throughout the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a must read for policy-makers, researchers, educationalists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. -- Asha Gupta Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 This is a book full of detail and informed comment that should be read by all who want to understand and be informed about many of the major issues surrounding the financing of higher education in the 21st century. -- Johns Mace HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW 2011 This book is a must read for the policy-makers, researchers, educationists, journalists and students of financing higher education worldwide for the theoretical insight and empirical data. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 2010 A great overview of the financing challenges facing each country's higher education system. -- John J. Cheslock Journal of Higher Education 2011 Usefully describes various policies and different countries' approaches to dees, loans, and other financial aid. -- Claire Callender Comparative Education Review 2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Diverging Trajectories of Higher Education's Costs and Public Revenues Worldwide\u003cbr\u003e2. Financial Austerity and Solutions on the Cost Side\u003cbr\u003e3. The Perspective and Policy of Cost-Sharing\u003cbr\u003e4. Parental Contributions, Means-Testing, andFinancial Assistance\u003cbr\u003e5. The Spread of Tuition Fees\u003cbr\u003e6. Student Loan Schemes in Purpose, Form, and Consequence\u003cbr\u003e7. Student Loan Schemes in Practice\u003cbr\u003e8. Cost-Sharing, Financial Assistance, and Student Behavior\u003cbr\u003e9. Cost-Sharing in Practice Worldwide\u003cbr\u003e10. Cost-Sharing and the Future of International Higher Educational Finance\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Selected Country Examples of Cost-Sharing\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405209379159,"sku":"9780801894589","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801894589.jpg?v=1730489124"},{"product_id":"displacing-democracy-9780812246599","title":"Displacing Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income citizens are also less likely to be politically engaged, a trend that is most glaring in terms of voter turnout. Examining neighborhoods in Atlanta, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Rochester, Amy Widestrom challenges the assumption that the class gap in political participation is largely the result of individual choices and dispositions. \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that neighborhoods segregated along economic lines create conditions that encourage high levels of political activity, including political and civic mobilization and voting, among wealthier citizens while discouraging and impeding the poor from similar forms of civic engagement.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on quantitative research, case studies, and interviews, Widestrom shows t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisplacing Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to challenge and complicate a story that is often understood as an easy equation between individual resources and individual political behavior: most rich people vote, most poor people don't. Amy Widestrom's fine book recasts this as a challenge of political engagement under conditions of stark economic segregation. What matters, in the end, is where you live-and the ways in which civic infrastructure and civic resources can sustain (or sap) democratic participation.\" * Colin Gordon, University of Iowa *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. A Theory of Economic Segregation and Civic Engagement\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Understanding Civic Engagement in Context: Methodology and the Logic of Case Study Selection\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Public Policy and Civic Environments in Urban America\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Economic Segregation and the Mobilizing Capacity of Voluntary Associations\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Economic Segregation, Political Parties, and Political Mobilization\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. The Dynamics and Implications of Economic Segregation, Civic Engagement, and Public Policy\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405724524887,"sku":"9780812246599","price":59.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812246599.jpg?v=1730493400"},{"product_id":"the-medical-metropolis-9780812251678","title":"The Medical Metropolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston''s economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as the largest medical complex in the world, had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensured its stability during the financial crisis of the mid-2000s.\u003cbr\u003eTaking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, \u003ci\u003eThe Medical Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine transformed American cities in the postindustrial era. Andrew T. Simpson explores h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Simpson demonstrates the impressive depth and breadth of his research. He not only chronicles the major developments in the health care industry in each city, he also peels back the curtain on the internal deliberations of the major players as they made strategic decisions. These details provide useful insights for those interested in nonprofit governance and public-private partnerships, particularly in the context of urban economic development. Likewise, these case studies chronicle how national trends in American health care throughout the 20th century affected local health care industries.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Access to health care remains near the center of American political discourse. Based on two local studies, Andrew T. Simpson deftly explains the economic imperatives of postwar urban sprawl in molding the shifting relationship between medical centers and the communities they serve.\" * Guenter B. 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Simpson firmly establishes the role of place, contingency, and governance in shaping the seemingly ungovernable system that threatens to bankrupt municipal economies at the same time that it promises to save them.\" * Jeremy Greene, author of \u003ci\u003eGeneric: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Making the Medical Metropolis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Building Cities of Health: Medical Centers in Pittsburgh and Houston Before 1965\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Hospital-Civic Relationship in the Shadow of the Great Society\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. City of Hearts, City of Livers: Specialty Medicine and the Creation of New Civic Identities\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"When the Fire Dies\": Biotechnology and the Quest for a New Economy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Coming of the System: Changing Health Care Delivery in the Medical Metropolis\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. A Charitable Mission or a Profitable Charity? Redefining the Hospital-Civic Relationship\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Future of the Medical Metropolis\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Archival Collections and Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405741695319,"sku":"9780812251678","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812251678.jpg?v=1730493451"},{"product_id":"politics-across-the-hudson-the-tappan-zee-megaproject-9780813572505","title":"Politics Across the Hudson  The Tappan Zee","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe State of New York is now building one of the world's longest, widest, and most expensive bridges - the new Tappan Zee Bridge - stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. Urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centred around this bridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Philip Plotch combines a terrific story with a relentless search for evidence and doses of humor to give us a first-rate portrayal of the political process at work. He recounts the efforts over several decades to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge. Through three decades of struggle and failed plans, three governors—George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, and David Paterson—kept the project alive though often on a 'death watch.' Plotch reveals how Governor Andrew Cuomo picked up the torch, manipulated the facts where he thought it necessary, and overcame many obstacles to begin construction.\"\u003cbr\u003e  -- Jameson W. Doig * author of Empire on the Hudson *\u003cbr\u003e\"We spend years in traffic yet know little of the brew of politics, bureaucracy, interests, and ideals keeping us there. Planner and political scientist Plotch examines this principle through one transportation planning debacle: the three-decade struggle to refurbish or replace the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River north of New York City ... Anyone concerned about the place of large infrastructure projects in the modern U.S. should consider this sobering case study.\" * Publisher's Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Plotch has tremendous insight into the challenges of building extraordinarily complex projects in difficult political and fiscal climates. His professional experience and probing questions have enabled him to help explain Planet Albany—a place where thought defies gravity.\" -- David A. Paterson * Governor of New York, 2008-2010 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Philip Plotch's political history about the replacement of New York's Tappan Zee Bridge should be on the bookshelf of planners and other practicioners, elected officials, community members, and students engaged in or entering megaproject and urban politics debates ... Plotch skillfully tells the painful story of this bridge's evolution through a three-decade saga of conflict between elected officials, engineers, planners, environmentalists, and others who held divergent views about addressing traffic congestion in the corridor. The book is carefully researched and benefits from Plotch's extensive collection of primary materials and interviews with more than 100 key actors, including governors and influential members of the public and advocacy organizations...At times, I felt witness to interviews and his discoveries in real time…At its foundation, this book is a guide to what not to do in megaproject development. …Thus, Politics Across the Hudson provides an accessible and useful primer on what one can expect to surface and evolve potentially during a megaproject's long, winding path in deference to the phrase “expect the unexpected.” * Journal of the American Planning Association *\u003cbr\u003e“The Tappan Zee Bridge has been a symbol of infrastructure inaction in the U.S. over the last several decades – until now! New York State's Governor Cuomo has found the way to overcome the bickering among the many stakeholders and actually get to construction of the much needed replacement for this obsolescent and heavily used structure. How he did it, and how decades of issues stood in the way, are well told by Dr. Philip Plotch. This is a treatise for policy makers, planners, engineers, community leaders. Plotch has brought to light the genius in how to get big things done. It should go on your shelf next to your copy of Caro.”  -- Robert E. Paaswell * Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering (City College of New York) and Director Emeritus *\u003cbr\u003e“Even with my lifelong interest in traffic congestion, I had much to learn from \u003ci\u003ePolitics Across the Hudson\u003c\/i\u003e. What resonated most with me is the extremely lengthy process of conflicting viewpoints among the many agencies involved in our transportation systems. Nothing gets done fast.\" -- Anthony Downs * author of Stuck in Traffic *\u003cbr\u003e“Plotch’s analytical skills are top-notch and his writing is incisive and succinct. He writes with a historian's attention to detail, a political scientist's interest in theory, and a public policy scholar's fascination with how the sausage is actually made.”  -- Jeffrey Smith * assistant professor of Politics and Advocacy, The New School, New York *\u003cbr\u003e\"Governor David Patterson held about 6 meetings a month. That's according to Professor Philip Plotch who recently published a book, \u003ci\u003ePolitics across the Hudson\u003c\/i\u003e, about the Tappan Zee Bridge and the construction.\" -- Stephen Nesson * WNYC *\u003cbr\u003e\"The resulting \u003ci\u003ePolitics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject\u003c\/i\u003e is a short, compelling account of how good politics rarely translates into good public policy. Its 191 pages make for easy reading and its 41 pages of footnotes and bibliography, for authoritative telling\" * Times Herald *\u003cbr\u003e\"Plotch, a former planning official with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., writes with depth and wit about engineering, bureaucracy and politics\" * Times Union *\u003cbr\u003e\"On list of books for Political Junkies on Your Christmas List\" * Newsmax *\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the prestigious American Planning Association journalism award for its “in-depth research, hard hitting analysis and compelling look at the politics behind New York's first major new bridge in more than 50 years.” * American Planning Association *\u003cbr\u003e“Using original documents and conducting numerous interviews with key players, the author went a long distance to unravel this complex process. In so doing, he managed to eloquently, and in great detail, trace the project’s political, planning and bureaucratic evolution.” * Journal of Planning Literature *\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Plotch gives a brief history and sums up the future of the Tapen Zee Bridge project in \u003cb\u003ethis short video \u003c\/b\u003e(http:\/\/youtu.be\/PltWbA1aBhI) -- for WNYC\u003cbr\u003e“a wonderful book about this infrastructure megaproject\" * Journal of the American Planning Association *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How the governor latched onto decades of planning to achieve his new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge\" by Philip Mark Plotch\u003c\/p\u003e * Westchester Journal News *\u003cbr\u003e\"Cuomo astride our infrastructure: He got the Second Ave. Subway and new Tappan Zee over the finish line, but how?\" op-ed by Philip Plotch * New York Daily News *\u003cbr\u003e\"Why can't we build anything? Plus Lawyers (!), SoftBank pressures and more Amazon HQ2\" by Danny Crichton and Arman Tabatabai * TechCrunch *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Truck traffic surges on Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, drops at George Washington Bridge\" by Thomas C. Zambito and Frank Esposito \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e * LoHud.com *\u003cbr\u003e\"How Gov. Thomas Dewey engineered Tappan Zee Bridge toll money to edge out Port Authority\" by Thomas C. Zambito * LoHud.com *\u003cbr\u003e\"Plotch’s Politics Across the Hudson makes abundantly clear, understanding how infrastructure declines and deteriorates is enormously important.\" * Journal of Planning Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"Saint Peter’s Resident Transportation Expert Appears on One-on-One with Steve Adubato\"\u003cbr\u003e https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/01\/saint-peters-resident-transportation-expert-appears-on-one-on-one-with-steve-adubato\/ * One-on-One with Steve Adubato *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsGuides to This BookIntroduction1   The I-287 Corridor: From Conception to Congestion2   Searching for Congestion Solutions (1980–1988)3   Finalizing Plans for the HOV Lane (1988–1995)4    Killing the HOV Lane (1994–1997)5   Permut’s Rail Line and Platt’s Bridge6   Pataki’s Task Force: Raising Expectations Sky High (1998–2000)7   The Thruway Authority versus Metro-North (2000–2006)8   Eliot Spitzer Doesn’t Have Enough Steam (2007–2008)9   David Paterson: The Overwhelmed Governor (2008–2010)10   Andrew Cuomo Takes Charge in 201111   Public Reaction and Cuomo’s Campaign (2011–2012)12   Lost Opportunities and Wasted ResourcesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405788160343,"sku":"9780813572505","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813572505.jpg?v=1730493621"},{"product_id":"new-brunswick-new-jersey-the-decline-and-revitalization-of-urban-america-rivergate-regionals-collection-9780813575148","title":"New Brunswick New Jersey The Decline and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWhile many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing population, and enjoying a renaissance that has led many experts to cite this New Jersey city as a model for urban redevelopment. Featuring more than 100 remarkable photographs and many maps, \u003ci\u003eNew Brunswick, New Jersey\u003c\/i\u003e explores the history of the city since the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes of the past few decades.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eUsing oral histories, archival materials, census data, and surveys, authors David Listokin, Dorothea Berkhout, and James W. Hughes illuminate the decision-making and planning process that led to New Brunswick’s dramatic revitalization, describing the major redevelopment projects that demonstrate the city’s success in capitalizing on funding opportunities. These projects include the momentous decision of Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson to build its world headquarte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating look at the City of New Brunswick and its urban decline and rebirth. A book on this subject could not have been better written.”\u003c\/p\u003e * New Jersey Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Overall, the book does a good job at bringing together multiple perspectives on redevelopment processes and specific projects and is a valuable contribution to many disciplines and fields, including planning, public policy, urban studies, community development, sociology, political science, architecture, historical preservation, history, and geography.\" * Journal of Planning Education and Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. The Economy of New Brunswick: A City Reinventing Itself from Inian’s Ferry to the Information Age            Photo Essay: The Corner of Albany and George Streets2. The People of New Brunswick: Population and Resident Profile over Time3. The National Context of Urban Revitalization4. New Brunswick Transformation: Challenge and Strategic Response            Photo Essay: The Transformation of Seminary Hill5. New Brunswick Transformation: Critical Projects in a Multi-Decade Revitalization6. Looking to the Past and Future of New Brunswick and National Urban RevitalizationAppendix A. New Brunswick Oral History Interviews, 2009–2015: Biographical InformationAppendix B. New Brunswick Redevelopment and Economic History: A TimelineAppendix C. MapsNotesReferencesIndex \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405789012311,"sku":"9780813575148","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813575148.jpg?v=1730493623"},{"product_id":"population-trends-in-new-jersey-9780813588315","title":"Population Trends in New Jersey","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo fully understand New Jersey in the 2020s and beyond, it is crucial to understand its ever-changing population. This book examines the twenty-first century demographic trends that are reshaping the state now and will continue to do so in the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Labor Force Challenges: An Intense and Growing Concern,\" by Michael G. McGuinness— Real Estate NJ\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is an eye-opener into the powerful economic and demographic forces that are transforming the advanced world and its cities. Drawing upon more than a century of research at the Rutgers Center for Urban Policy Research, Jim Hughes and David Listokin provide a deep dive into way these forces have shaped and reshaped New Jersey. From great battles of Colonial times to the Industrial Revolution and the world-changing inventions of Thomas Edison to mass suburbanization, deindustrialization, immigration, urban decline and the remaking of its older cities, and its signature contributions to popular culture from Frank Sinatra to Bruce Springsteen, and much more, this book shows how New Jersey is a great bellwether of change for America and the world.\"— Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e 1 Overview and Summary: A State of Unrelenting Change \u003cbr\u003e 2 New Jersey Population from the Colonial Period to the Early Republic \u003cbr\u003e 3 The Long-Term Decennial Growth Picture \u003cbr\u003e 4 The People of New Jersey: Long-Term Diversity in Racial, Ethnic, and National Origin \u003cbr\u003e 5 Population, Geography, and the “Big Six” Cities \u003cbr\u003e 6 Components of Population Change \u003cbr\u003e 7 The Generational Framework \u003cbr\u003e 8 The Baby Boom Generation’s Enduring Legacy \u003cbr\u003e 9 Generations X, Y, Z, and Alpha \u003cbr\u003e 10 Generations and Age-Structure Transformations \u003cbr\u003e 11 The Great Household Revolution \u003cbr\u003e 12 Demographics and Income \u003cbr\u003e 13 Recent Dynamics and the Future\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Population by County in New Jersey in the Colonial Era (1726, 1738, 1745, 1772, and 1784) and as a State (1790–2018)\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: The Business Cycle and Demographics \u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: Historic Black Population, “Great Migration,” and “Reverse Great Migration” Nationwide and in New Jersey \u003cbr\u003e Appendix D: The Demographics of New Jersey Residential Housing \u003cbr\u003e Appendix E: New Jersey Population Density and Urban and Metropolitan Residence \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405794058583,"sku":"9780813588315","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813588315.jpg?v=1730493641"},{"product_id":"city-distribution-and-urban-freight-transport-multiple-perspectives-nectar-series-on-transportation-and-communications-networks-research-9780857932747","title":"City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe analyses found in City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport aim to improve knowledge in this important area by recognizing and evaluating the problems, with a focus on urban freight transport systems.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[T]he authors' use of relatively wide range of case studies and innovative methods as well as the clarity with which the analysis is presented makes this book a valuable reference for planners and policymakers. It provides an understanding of the key issues of urban freight distribution in modern cities. The book also appeals to academic scholars and graduate students in the field of either urban planning or public policy, who can also benefit from the extensive and solid foundation laid for future research. --Zhenhua Chen, The Review of Regional Studies\u003cp\u003eThis book is an important contribution to the study of the subject [of urban freight transport], focusing strongly on the inter-related issues of efficiency and sustainability. --Allan Woodburn, Journal of Transport Geography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Introduction – City Distribution: Challenges for Cities and Researchers  PART I: THE PROBLEM SITUATION AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS 1. City Distribution, a Key Element of the Urban Economy: Guidelines for Practitioners Laetitia Dablanc  2. Urban Freight Transport: The Challenge of Sustainability H.J. (Hans) Quak  3. Characteristics and Typology of Last-mile Logistics from an Innovation Perspective in an Urban Context Roel Gevaers, Eddy Van de Voorde and Thierry Vanelslander  PART II: POSSIBLE METHODOLOGIES 4. Urban Freight Policy Innovation for Rome’s LTZ: A Stakeholder Perspective Amanda Stathopoulos, Eva Valeri, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta, Agostino Nuzzolo and Antonio Comi  5. Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Case Study on Night-time Delivery for Urban Distribution Cathy Macharis, Ellen Van Hoeck, Sara Verlinde, Wanda Debauche and Frank Witlox  6. Definition of a Set of Indicators to Evaluate the Performance of Urban Goods Distribution Initiatives Sandra Melo and Álvaro Costa  PART III: CASE STUDIES OF EUROPEAN CITIES 7. City Logistics in Italy: Success Factors and Environmental Performance Carlo Vaghi and Marco Percoco  8. Transport of Goods to and from the Center of Brussels: Using the Port to Improve Sustainability Tom van Lier and Cathy Macharis  9. Optimization of Urban Deliveries: Evaluating a Courier, Express and Parcel Services Pilot Project in Berlin Julius Menge and Paul Hebes  10. The Use of Rail Transport as Part of the Supply Chain in an Urban Logistics Context\t Jochen Maes and Thierry Vanelslander  11. Evaluation of Urban Goods Distribution Initiatives: An Empirical Overview in the Portuguese Context Sandra Melo  Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406331453783,"sku":"9780857932747","price":109.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857932747.jpg?v=1730495422"},{"product_id":"urban-form-and-transport-accessibility-9780857937490","title":"Urban Form and Transport Accessibility","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important collection provides a foundational understanding of the debates surrounding urban form and the ability of land use policy to deliver the preferred urban form. Professor Mulley has selected key published articles from disciplines at the interface of urban economics and transport economics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘This collection of seminal papers reflects on the long history of research on urban form and transport accessibility, and it includes contributions from many of the most influential thinkers in urban and regional science. Now they have all been assembled in a single volume that is accessible to all researchers – it provides an invaluable resource.’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  Acknowledgements   Introduction     Corinne Mulley  PART I              THEORIES OF URBAN FORM AND HIERARCHIES OF CITY SIZE  1. Walter Christaller (1972), ‘How I Discovered the Theory of Central Places: A Report about the Origin of Central Places’ 2. August Lösch (1938), ‘The Nature of Economic Regions’ 3. Chauncy D. Harris and Edward L. Ullman (1945), ‘The Nature of Cities’ 4. Brian J.L. Berry and William L. Garrison (1958), ‘Recent Developments of Central Place Theory’ 5. Martin J. Beckmann (1958), ‘City Hierarchies and the Distribution of City Size’ 6. J.V. Henderson (1974), ‘The Sizes and Types of Cities’   PART II              CONTRIBUTION OF THE ‘NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY’   7. Brian J.L. Berry (1964), ‘Cities as Systems within  Systems of Cities’ 8. Paul Krugman (1991), ‘Increasing Returns and Economic Geography’ 9. Masahisa Fujita and Paul Krugman (1995), ‘When is the Economy Monocentric?: von Thünen and Chamberlin Unified’ 10. Masahisa Fujita and Tomoya Mori (1997), ‘Structural Stability and Evolution of Urban Systems’ 11. Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Tomoya Mori (1999), ‘On the Evolution of Hierarchical Urban Systems’ 12. Takatoshi Tabuchi and Jacques-François Thisse (2011), ‘A New Economic Geography Model of Central Places’  PART III              INTRA-URBAN LOCATION  13. Harold Hotelling (1929), ‘Stability in Competition’ 14. William Alonso (1960), ‘A Theory of the Urban Land Market’ 15. Waltar Isard and Tony E. Smith (1967), ‘Location Gāmes: With Applications to Classic Location Problems’ 16. Michael A. Goldberg (1970), ‘Transportation, Urban Land Values, and Rents: A Synthesis’ 17. Robert H. Nelson (1973), ‘Accessibility and Rent: Applying Becker’s “Time Price” Concept to the Theory of Residential Location’ 18. Robert M. Solow (1972), ‘Congestion, Density and the Use of Land in Transportation’ 19. Edwin S. Mills (1972), ‘Markets and Efficient Resource Allocation in Urban Areas’ 20. Gerald S. Goldstein and Leon N. Moses (1973), ‘A Survey of Urban Economics’ 21. Gilles Duranton and Diego Puga (2000), ‘Diversity and Specialisation in Cities: Why, Where and When Does it Matter?’ 22. Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall (1996), ‘Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity’ 23. J. Vernon Henderson (2003), ‘Marshall’s Scale Economies’ 24. Patricia C. Melo, Daniel J. Graham and Robert B. Noland (2009), ‘A Meta-analysis of Estimates of Urban Agglomeration Economies’ 25. Anthony J. Venables (2007), ‘Evaluating Urban Transport Improvements: Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Presence of Agglomeration and Income Taxation’   PART IV              ACCESSIBILITY MEASUREMENT  26. Walter G. Hansen (1959), ‘How Accessibility Shapes Land Use’ 27. A.G. Wilson (1971), ‘A Family of Spatial Interaction Models, and Associated Developments’ 28. Chauncy D. Harris (1954), ‘The Market as a Factor in the Localization of Industry in the United States’ 29. C. Clark, F. Wilson and J. Bradley (1969), ‘Industrial Location and Economic Potential in Western Europe’ 30. J.M. Morris, P.L. Dumble and M.R. Wigan (1979), ‘Accessibility Indicators for Transport Planning’ 31. R.W. Vickerman (1974), ‘Accessibility, Attraction, and Potential: A Review of Some Concepts and their Use in Determining Mobility’  PART V              THE DYNAMICS OF CHANGE  32. P.M. Allen and M. Sanglier (1979), ‘A Dynamic Model of Growth in a Central Place System’ 33. Francesca Medda, Peter Nijkamp and Piet Rietveld (2003), ‘Urban Land Use for Transport Systems and City Shapes’ 34. Daniel J. Graham (2007), ‘Variable Returns to Agglomeration and the Effect of Road Traffic Congestion’","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406337352023,"sku":"9780857937490","price":285.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857937490.jpg?v=1730495444"},{"product_id":"handbook-of-creative-cities-9780857937681","title":"Handbook of Creative Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe diversity of the contributions reflect the multidisciplinary nature of creative city theorizing, which encompasses urban economics, economic geography, social psychology, urban sociology, and urban planning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. Analysing Creative Cities David Emanuel Andersson and Charlotta Mellander  2. Creative People Need Creative Cities Åke E. Andersson  3. The Creative Class Paradigm Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Patrick Adler  4. Big-C Creativity in the Big City Dean Keith Simonton  5. Clusters, Networks and Creativity Charlie Karlsson  PART II: PEOPLE 6. The Open City Peter Jason Rentfrow  7. The Value of Creativity Todd M. Gabe  8. Understanding Canada’s Evolving Design Economy Tara Vinodrai  9. Technology, Talent and Tolerance and Inter-regional Migration in Canada Karen M. King  10. Higher Education and the Creative City Roberta Comunian and Alessandra Faggian   PART III: NETWORKS 11. Research Nodes and Networks Christian Wichmann Matthiessen, Annette Winkel Schwarz and Søren Find  12. Scenes, Innovation, and Urban Development Dan Silver, Terry Nichols Clark and Christopher Graziul  13. The Arts: Not Just Artists (and Vice Versa) Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and Kevin M. Stolarick  14. The Creative Potential of Network Cities David F. Batten  15. Why Being There Matters: Finnish Professionals in Silicon Valley Carol Marie Kiriakos  PART IV: PLANNING 16. Creative Cities Need Less Government David Emanuel Andersson  17. Land-use Regulation for the Creative City Stefano Moroni  18. The Emergence of Vancouver as a Creative City Gus diZerega and David F. Hardwick  PART V: MARKETS 19. Cultivating Creativity: Market Creation of Agglomeration Economies Randall G. Holcombe  20. The Sociability and Morality of Market Settlements Arielle John and Virgil Henry Storr  21. Creative Environments: The Case for Local Economic Diversity Pierre Desrochers and Samuli Leppälä  22. Does Density Matter? Peter Gordon and Sanford Ikeda  23. Creative Milieus in the Stockholm Region Börje Johansson and Johan Klaesson  24. The Creative City and its Distributional Consequences: The Case of Wellington Philip S. Morrison  PART VI: VISIONS 25. Contract, Voice and Rent: Voluntary Urban Planning Fred E. Foldvary  26. 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