Profit Cycles, Oligopoly, and Regional Development

by Ann Markusen

Book Overview

The dramatic shifts in heartland regional economies in the U.S. and other advanced industrial countries have thrown into question the ability of capitalist development to produce permanent growth, economic well being, and balanced regional development. This book develops a theory that radically reconceptualizes the economic forces producing regional change and tests it empirically for a set of fifteen sectors in the U.S. It offers a pioneering approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262512203
• ISBN13: 9780262512206
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher