Institutions have both positive and negative effects on economic performance. The theoretical and empirical understanding of the roles played by institutions, norms and culture in the functioning of markets still is limited. This book contributes to a better understanding of the role played by institutions in economic life and to more balanced and better founded policy decisions related to the (re)structuring of industrial economies in response to the structural changes - internationalisation of the economies, the advances in information and communication technology and the ageing of...
Institutions have both positive and negative effects on economic performance. The theoretical and empirical understanding of the roles played by insti...
The book aims at creating the foundations for a broad framework of a "theory of mobility in space and time." Starting from a confrontation between mainstream international economics and empirical observation, the approach takes into account the heterogeneity of more or less mobile agents, forms of interaction that go beyond price interaction as well as the dimensions of space and time. It is emphasized that only an interdisciplinary approach that is open to new methods will be able to offer explanations for the spatial dynamics of our times. This approach goes beyond the traditional...
The book aims at creating the foundations for a broad framework of a "theory of mobility in space and time." Starting from a confrontation between mai...
