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Reviews the book `International Trade and Global Development: Essays in Honour of Jagdish Bhagwati,' edited by Ad Koekkoek and L.B.M. Mennes. Importance of global trade liberalization; Free trade and economic development.

Reviews the book `Urban-Regional Economics, Social System Accounts, and Eco-Behavioral Science: Selected Writings,' by Karl A. Fox,' edited by James R. Prescott, Paul Van Moeseke, and Jati K. Sengupta.

Reviews the book `Marxism in the Postmodern Age: Confronting the New World Order,' by Antonio Callari, Stephen Cullenberg, and Carole Biewener.

Reviews the book `Migration, Population Structure, and Redistribution Policies,' edited by Calvin Goldscheider. Discussion of the Michigan Metropolitan Migration Project; Links between geographical mobility and job mobility; Study on survival strategies in response to drought and the resultant downturn in food production from 1983-1985 in the Upper Senegal River Valley of Mali; More.

Reviews the book `The Challenge of European Integration: Internal and External Problems of Trade and Money,' edited by Berhanu Abegaz, Patricia Dillon, David H. Feldman and Paul F. Whiteley.

EUROPEANREGIONALGROWTH.Edited by Bernard Fingleton. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag. 2003. viii + 435 pp. ISBN 3-540-00366-5.RURALPROGRESS, RURALDECAY; NEOLIBERALADJUSTMENTPOLICIESANDLOCALINITIATIVES.Edited by Lisa L. North and John D. Cameron. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press. July 2003. xx + 288pp; ISBN 1-56549-171-8 (cloth) $65, 1-56549-170-X (paper) $25.95. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Policy Analysis of Transport Networks," edited by Marina Van Geenhuizen, Aura Reggiani, and Piet Rietveld.

The article reviews the book "Incentives, Regulations and Plans: The Role of States and Nation-States in Smart Growth Planning," edited by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Huibert A. Haccoû, Kelly J. Clifton, and John W. Frece.

Reviews the book `Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy,' edited by Jeffrey Freiden, Manuel Pastor Jr., and Michael Tomz.

Reviews the book `Collapsing Time and Space: Geographic Aspects of Communication & Information,' edited by Stanley D. Brunn and Thomas R. Leinbach.

Books reviewed: Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis, by David R. Meyer. Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-Regional Change in Pacific Asia, by Yue-man Yeung. Regional Cohesion and Competition in the Age of Globalization, edited by Hirotada Kohno, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot. Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States, edited by William T. Alpert and Stephen A. Woodbury. The Atlanta Paradox, edited by David L. Sjoquist. The Economics of Sports, edited by William S. Kern. Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development, by Asayehgn Desta. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `Improving Access to Health Care: What Can the States Do?,' edited by John H. Goddeeris and Andrew J. Hogan.

Reviews the book `Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Caribbean Context,' edited by Thomas Klak.

Batey and Plane's (2020) Volume 1 of the I Great Minds in Regional Science i book series offers an insightful showcase of the work of 13 influential scholars (written by 11 different contributors) in regional science. The remaining chapters of the book fall somewhere between the Isard chapter and the Philip Sargant Florence chapter with respect to the balance between theory and biography. The chapter's brief discussion of Isard's five main books could have expounded on the content of those works, for example. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography," edited by Ron Boschma and Ron Martin.

The article reviews the book, "The Moving Frontier: The Changing Geography of Production in Labour-Intensive Industries," edited by Lois Labrianidis.

The article reviews the book "Clusters and Globalisation: The Development of Urban and Regional Economies," edited by Christos Pitelis, Roger Sugden, and James R. Wilson.

The article reviews the book "Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America," edited by Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, amd Caroline B. Brettell.

The article reviews the book "The Management and Measurement of Infrastructure: Performance, Efficiency and Innovation" edited by Charlie Karlsson, William P. Anderson, Borje Johansson and Kiyoshi Kobayashi.

The article reviews the book "Information and Communications Technologies in Rural Society: Being Rural in a Digital Age," edited by Grete Rusten and Sarah Skerratt.

The article reviews the book "The Handbook of Service Industries," edited by John R. Bryson and Peter W. Daniels.

The article reviews the book "REINING IN THE COMPETITION FOR CAPITAL," edited by Ann Markusen.

The article reviews the book "SPATIAL DISPARITIES IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVE FROM ASIA," edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan.

F amily, H ousehold and W ork Edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann and Michael Vogler, Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 2003. xiv + 427 pp. $99.00/£53.00 (hardcover). ISBN 3-540-00360-6 Reviewed by John F. Watkins Graduate Center for Gerontology University of Kentucky T he G lobal I nternet E conomy Edited by Bruce Kogut, Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. 2004. 520 pp. $24.00 (paper) ISBN 0-262-61204-6 Reviewed by Sharon C. Cobb Department of Economics and Geography University of North Florida G lobalizing L.A.: T rade, I nfrastructure and R egional D evelopment Steven P. Erie, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. 336 pp. ISBN 0-804-74681-8 Reviewed by John Gulick Department of Sociology University of Tennessee Knoxville U rban S prawl in W estern E urope and the U nited S tates Edited by Harry W. Richardson and Chang-Hee Christine Bae, England: Ashgate. 2004. 342 pp. $89.95 ISBN 0-7546-3789-1 Reviewed by Richard P. Greene Department of Geography Northern Illinois University [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed Johannes Brocker, Dirk Dohse, and Rudiger Soltwedel, I nnovation C lusters and I nterregional C ompetition. Norman Walzer, T he A merican M idwest: M anaging C hange in R ural T ransition. G.D. Hewings, M. Sonis, and D. Boyce, T rade, N etworks and H ierarchies: M odeling R egional and I nterregional E conomies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `Estimating Economic Values for Nature,' by V. Kerry Smith.

The article reviews the book "Universities, Knowledge Transfer and Regional Development: Geography, Entrepreneurship, and Policy," edited by Attila Varga.

The article reviews the book "A Handbook of Industrial Districts," edited by Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi, and Lisa De Propris.

The article reviews the book "The Media City: Media, Architecture, and Urban Space," by Scott McQuire.

The article reviews the book "Spaces of Sustainability: Geographic Perspectives on the Sustainable Society," by Mark Whitehead.

Reviews the book `Regional Development in an Age of Structural Change,' edited by P. Rietveld and D. Shefer.

Reviews the book `Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy,' edited by Mickey Lauria.

Reviews the book `Economic Integration In The Western Hemisphere,' edited by Roberto Bouzas and Jaime Ros.

Reviews the book `China's Economic Reform: Administering the Introduction of the Market Mechanism,' by George Totten and Zhou Shulian.

Reviews the book `Migration and Residential Mobility,' by Martin Cadwallader. Examination of analytical approaches to the study of migration and residential mobility; Standard separation between interregional migration and residential mobility; Micro and macro-scale approaches to migration; Generalizations underlying spatial patterns of migration.

Reviews the book `Sustainable Cities--Urbanization and the Environment in International Perspective,' edited by Richard Stren, Rodney White, and Joseph Whitney.

Reviews the book `Rural Poverty in America,' edited by Cynthia M. Duncan.

Reviews the book `Wage and Unemployment Adjustment in Local Labor Markets,' by Randall Ebert and Joe A. Stone.

Reviews the book `Urban Change and Poverty,' edited by Michael G.H. McGeary and Laurence E. Lynn Jr.

The article reviews the book "Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations," edited by Christine Tamásy and Mike Taylor.

The article reviews the book "Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: An Introduction to the Global South," by Sylvia Chant and Cathy McIlwaine.

The article reviews the book, "Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization," edited by Ash Amin and Joanne Roberts.

The article reviews the book, "Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects," Volume 1, edited by Margery Austin Turner, Howard Wial, and Harold Wolman.

The article reviews the book "The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community," by Stephen A. Marglin.

The article reviews the book "Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies," edited by JunJie Wu, Paul W. Barkley, and Bruce A. Weber.

The article reviews the book "The Digital Economy: Business Organization, Production Process and Regional Developments," edited by Edward J. Malecki and Bruno Moriset.

The article reviews the book "Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Older Industrial Areas" edited by Richard McGahey.

The article reviews the book "Negotiating the Transport System: User Contexts, Experiences and Needs," edited by Fiona Raje.

The article reviews the book "Visiting Granchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes," by Donald J. Savoie.

The article reviews the book "Knowing Capitalism," by Nigel Thrift.