Cities and Regions in Crisis: The Political Economy of Sub-National Economic Development

by Martin Jones

Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer intervention solutions in different cities and regions. Drawing on different approaches to state intervention, neoliberalism, crisis and contradiction theories, and notions of depoliticisation, this book explains policy failure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843768763
• ISBN13: 9781843768760
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages