... of Jane Jacobs on how trade spurs and sustains settlement growth; the work of Paul Krugman and other adherents of the self-styled “new economic geography” explaining how unequal gains from trade structure differentially complex urban systems; and the work of Gunnar Myrdal explaining the mechanisms...

... Lakewood California Murray Utah Seattle Washington Cincinnati Ohio economic geography school districts race metropolitan structure rural conditions So far I have treated school districts in a largely nonspatial way. My description of the pedagogical transformation from the ungraded one-room schools...

...In chapter three, Berry analyzes economic geography as a key factor behind the variable power of chiefs. Warning against too simple an attribution of the return of chiefship to the rise of neoliberalism, the author examines the cases of Ghana and South Africa with a view to accounting...

... of the older areas could be avoided, and in the process they made new economic geographies. They sought a suburban solution. Even though this was riven by conflicts of all kinds and created through the action of thousands of actors, a modern suburban reality did emerge. Chicago's elites were able to juxtapose...

.... The article also considers Dickens's economic geography of America, focusing on the role of boosters, banks, and bank notes. American Notes for General Circulation Dickens Britain Cairo IL Cities antipathy toward Dickens Charles in Allegheny Mountains Eight Months in Illinois Oliver Guidebooks...

... cornerstone ceremony Freemasons Kennedy John Pendleton parade of July 4 1828 blacksmiths iron imports “Hail to the Chief ” song Union mock ship elites B&O board and wealth transfer of railroads corporations early republic slavery capitalism economic geography public finance municipal...

... Allegheny Mountains natural world retailers and small businesses railroads economic geography rate discrimination through trade labor strikes In 1845, after more than a decade of track debates, financial struggles, and currency controversies, Louis McLane still promised an anxious public that, upon...

...In the context of the Cold War, the 1959 Cuban Revolution produced a profound historical shift in the economic geography of U.S. sugar sourcing. This chapter concentrates on the years immediately preceding and following the revolution. Prior to the revolution, Cuba was both Florida's principal...

... in unskilled abundant countries is “worse than wrong—it is dangerous.” Trade liberalization with respect to competing goods produces quasi-Stolper-Samuelson effects. Trade liberalization against a good that is a poor substitute for a local variety will affect local factor prices only weakly. Economic geography...

... regions, and argues that insights from new economic geography can shed important light on this change. A commentary is also included at the end of the chapter. Geography role of and globalization Globalization North Douglas C Aghion P Howitt P Lucas R E Jr Location of production phases of Trade...

... they articulated an “imagined economic geography,” a necessary but insufficient precursor to the development of a regional cane belt. These “imagined economic geographies” were quite detailed, including land measurements and speculation on potential labor sources, profits, and economic multipliers. Crampton...

... memberships, and financial relationships were ultimately more consequential, the book demonstrates, than any individual achievement. Beyond simply giving Chicago businesses competitive advantages, they transformed the economic geography of the region. Tracing these transformations across seventy-five years...