Regional policies and comparative advantage

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Regional policies and comparative advantage

edited by Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson, Roger R. Stough

E. Elgar, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

This book analyses the conception of economic development in modern regions, which has gone through a fundamental change since the early 1980s. Regions are today increasingly looked upon as independent market places that are connected via interregional and international trade and not as administrative units embodied in a national state. Two complementary theoretical frameworks explain the specialization of economic activity at the regional level. The traditional approach assumes that the comparative advantages of regions depend upon differences in the supply of lasting resources. In contrast the new complementary framework called the New Economic Geography, assumes that the dynamic interaction between geographical market potentials and rational firms in its own way creates the comparative advantage of regions. The contributors to this book examine the policy implications of the complementarity of the competing views in a variety of geographic and functional contexts. The first set of papers examines the effect of regional policy on firm locational decision-making. This leads to another set evaluating a variety of regional policy efforts. New and different methodological approaches are examined in another set of papers. The final part of the book focuses on new concepts. Economists, geographers and readers interested in regionalization, trade and development will find this book informative.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface Part I: Regional Policy and Location Part II: Evaluating Regional Policy Part III: Regional Policy: Methodological Approaches Part IV: New Concepts and Perspectives Index

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Details

  • NCID
    BA58855992
  • ISBN
    • 1840648341
  • LCCN
    2002020235
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cheltenham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 519 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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