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100 _aChristopherson, Susa
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245 _aRemaking regional economies:
_bpower, labor, and firm strategies in the knowledge economy /
_cby Susan Christopherson and Jennifer Clark
260 _bRoutledge,
_c2009.
_aOxon:
300 _axi,:176p.
440 _aroutledge studies in economic geography
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505 _aSection 1: Shaping the Regional Project -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Firm Strategies: Resources, Context, and Territory -- 3. Labor Markets and the Regional Project -- Section 2: Case Studies -- 4. The Evolution of the Optics and Imaging Industry -- 5. Runaway Production: Media Concentration and Spatial Competition -- Section 3: Learning Regions and Innovation Policies -- 6. The Paradox of Innovation: Why Regional Innovation Systems Produce so Little Innovation (and so Few Jobs) -- 7. The Learning Region Disconnect -- 8. Remaking Regions: Considering Scale and Combining Investment and Distribution
520 _aSince the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the character of the global economy. This book offers a critique of the 'new regionalism' and covers the 'regional question', including its concerns with equity and uneven development. It challenges to consider the region as a central scale of action in the global economy.
650 _aRegional economics
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942 _cBK