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1. Materializing difference. Consumer culture, politics and ethnicity among Romanian Roma: by Péter Berta, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2019, 372 pp., $27.71 (paper), $67.50 (cloth), 27.71 (eBook), ISBN 978 1 4875 0057 3 (cloth), ISBN 978 1 4875 2040 3 (paper)

Author

Cristache, Maria

Subjects
*CONSUMER culture theory, *ETHNICITY, *ROMANIANS, *ELECTRONIC books, *PRACTICAL politics, *ECONOMIC development
Abstract

In the conclusion, the author looks in greater detail at the changes in prestige consumption of Gabor Roma since the dissolution of the Romanian socialist state in 1989. Berta's research sheds light on a little known aspect of the social, cultural and economic life of Romanian Roma by examining the ways in which prestige objects are valued, exchanged, safeguarded and embedded in discourses. The author examines practices and ideologies surrounding ethnicised and gendered prestige objects of the Gabor Roma, such as silver beakers and roofed tankards. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2022
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4. A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development: The Uneven Evolution of Cities and Regions.

Subjects
*ECONOMIC development, *ECONOMIC geography
Abstract

Chapter 10, "Addressing Unevenness" is the most attractive part here: it connects behavioural theory to (regional) economic development, transformation, and well-being. Chapter 8 is the crowning achievement to which the two preceding chapter built up: they provided an analysis how "culture and personality can be measured and examined as a process of co-evolution" (p. 191), and chapter 8 links the resulting "human agency potential" to entrepreneurship and innovation. Although these chapters read like earlier papers or reports that have now been integrated into the book, they still provide valuable inpiration for how the connection from agents to regions actually can work. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2022
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5. AN ANALYSIS OF EXPORT PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH OF MALAYSIA USING CO-INTEGRATON AND ERROR CORRECTION MODELS.

Author

Sulaiman, Muna and Md. Saad, Norma

Subjects
*EXPORTS, *ECONOMIC development, *COINTEGRATION, *ECONOMIC indicators, *INTERNATIONAL trade, *ECONOMETRICS, *COMMERCIAL policy, *ECONOMIC policy, ECONOMIC conditions in Malaysia
Abstract

This paper aims to test the relationship between export and economic growth in the Malaysian economy from 1960 to 2005. Combining production function, and international trade and development theories, a five variable model is specified and estimated by using cointegration tests and error correction model. Multivariate cointegration results revealed that there exists a single cointegrating vector in the estimated system. This means that these variables are linked together in achieving their steady state equilibrium in the long run. From the estimation of the specified model, we reported that there is a positive relationship between export and economic growth in the long run and short run at 5 percent significance level in the Malaysian economy. Besides, our results suggest that capital has positive impacts on economic growth in the short-term and long-term but labor has an impact on economic growth only in the long run. For imports, it is proven that it has a negative relationship with economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2009
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7. Book Review.

Author

Herod, Andrew

Subjects
*INVESTMENTS, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Pension Fund Capitalism. Gordon Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xvii and 342 pp., diags., notes, and index. $65.00 cloth (ISBN 0-19-924047-7); $29.95 paper (ISBN 0-19-924048-5). Reviewed by Andrew Herod, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2003
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10. Cultural heritage, creativity and economic development.

Author

Oliva, Stefania

Subjects
*CULTURAL property, *ECONOMIC development, *CREATIVE ability
Abstract

The book I Cultural heritage, creativity and economic development i by Silvia Cerisola proposes a territorial approach to study the relationship between cultural heritage and economic development. Chapter 1 introduces the conceptual framework of the book, discusses the research questions and defines the unit of the analysis. Chapter 3 emphasizes the idea that cultural heritage may have an indirect impact on economic development that is related to the concept of creativity. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2020
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21. Sustaining entrepreneurship and economic growth: Lessons in policy and industry innovations from Germany and India – Edited by Max Keilbach, Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada and David B. Audretsch.

Author

Welter, Friederike

Subjects
*ECONOMIC development, *NONFICTION
Abstract

The article reviews the book "Sustaining Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth: Lessons in Policy and Industry Innovations From Germany and India," edited by Max Keilbach, Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada and David B. Audretsch.

Published
2010
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