William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics or Global City Regions

William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics

Author: Harro Maas

The Victorian polymath William Stanley Jevons (1835-82) is generally and rightly venerated as one of the great innovators of economic theory and method in what came to be known as the 'marginalist revolution'. This book is an investigation into the cultural and intellectual resources that Jevons drew upon to revolutionize research methods in economics. Jevons's uniform approach to the sciences was based on a firm belief in the mechanical constitution of the universe and a firm conviction that all scientific knowledge was limited and therefore hypothetical in character. Jevons's mechanical beliefs found their way into his early meteorological studies, his formal logic, and his economic pursuits. By using mechanical analogies as instruments of discovery, Jevons was able to bridge the divide between theory and statistics that had become more or less institutionalized in mid nineteenth-century Britain.

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Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy

Author: Allen J Scott

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Allen J. Scott

Part I: Opening Arguments

1. Global City-Regions, Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper

Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development

2. How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region, Kenichi Ohmae

3. The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor, James D. Wolfensohn

4. Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions, Lucien Bouchard

Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon?

5. Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century, Sir Peter Hall

6. Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison, Saskia Sassen

7. The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context, Roberto Camagni

8. Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era, John Friedmann

Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions

9. Regions and the New Economics of Competition, Michael E. Porter

10. Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge, Thomas J. Courchene

Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges

11. Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions, Richard Stren

12. Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America, Tim Campbell

13. Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia, Michael Douglass

14. Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis, Won Bae Kim

Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions

15. Inequality in Global City-Regions, Susan S. Fainstein

16. The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy, Roger Waldinger

Part VII: Questions of Citizenship

17. Urban Citizenship and Globalization, James Holston

18. Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization, Engin F. Isin

Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions

19. Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age, Michael Keating

20. Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region, Douglas Henton

21. Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster, Hubert Schmitz

Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues

22. Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions, Theodore Panayotou