Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Human Use of the Earth
Latin America: A Regional Geography
Case Studies in World Geography: Occupance and Economy Types
An Introduction to Geography
Understanding Weather
Siberian Arctic: The Story of the Siberian Company     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review in this article:
Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form, by Allen J. Scott.
Services and Uneven Development. J. Neill Marshall in collaboration with P. Wood, P. W. Daniels et al.
New Industrial Spaces. Allen J. Scott.
Space-Structure Economy: A Tribute to August Lösch, edited by Rolf H. Funck and Antoni Kuklinski.
The Changing Downtown: A Comparative Study of Baltimore and Hamburg, by Jurgen Friedrichs, Allen C. Goodman, et al.
Store Choice, Store Location and Market Analysis, edited by Neil Wrigley.
An Analysis of Cross-Border Shopping, by J. D. Fitzgerald, T. P. Quinn, B. J. Whelan, and J. A. Williams.
Essay on the Economy of the Old Northwest. edited by David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder.
China: Growth and Development in Gansu Province, by the World Bank.
Urban Development and Regional Policy in India: An Econometric Analysis. by Vibhooti Shukla.
The Economics of Urbanisation and Urban Policies in Developing Countries, edited by George S. Tolley and Vinod Thomas.
The New Economic Role of American States: Strategies in a Competitive World Economy, edited by R. Scott Fosler.
Plant Closings and Worker Displacement, by Marie Howland.
Industrial Location, by Keith Chapman and David Walker.     

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this article:
Robert Beauregard (Ed.) Atop the Urban Hierarchy .
G. Cook (Ed.) The Future of Antarctica: Exploitation versus Preservation.
K. Suter Antarctica: Private Property or Public Heritage.
P. Simpson-Housley Antarctica: Exploration Perception and Metaphor.
Dharam Ghai and Jessica M. Vivian (Eds.) Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development.
A. Parker, M. Russo, D. Sommer and P. Yaeger (Eds.) Nationalisms and Sexualities . and Richard Walker The New Social Economy, Reworking the Division of Labor.
Andrew Sayer and Richard Walker The New Social Economy, Reworking the Division of Labor.     

Services and the New Economy: elements of a research agenda

In developing and advanced economies job creation continuesto be led by various services. A New Economy is being created,which is challenging the geography of the Old Economy. The OldEconomy has been dominated by corporations headquartered disproportionatelyin the ‘Global Cities’ and large agglomerations.The New Economy is being built around smaller enterprises distributedin a much more dispersed geography. The New Economy has jobcreation centered in services, but relies on the Old Economyfor physical capital and a portion of demand. The location ofbusiness activity in the New Economy can be much more contingenton the desires of entrepreneurs, and is far less tied to thecost-based logic that has shaped and reshaped the distributionof industrial capacity in the Old Economy. The New Economy reliesto a growing extent on telephonic-based networks for productionand delivery, but it also has leading-edge layers that requireface-to-face human contact in the production process. At thesame time the Old Economy is becoming ever more directed byproduction processes less tied to localized human skills, andin the process is shedding labor demands. The New Economy isexploding in its industrial composition, challenging researchersto define its new industries (such as establishments with only.com, .org, .gov, or .edu Internet addresses), and the extremelyrapid division of labor in unstandardized services such as managementconsulting and software engineering. The Old Economy is clearlyresponding to these developments in the New Economy, and restructuringis occurring globally. Research is needed speaking to these trends, and the primarypurpose of this paper is to issue a call for work of this type.The paper identifies priority needs from a theoretical perspective,as well as describes badly needed empirical work on the NewEconomy.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy by J.K. Gibson-Graham
Logics of Dislocation: Models, Metaphors, and Meanings of Economic Space by Trevor J. Barnes
Images satellitaires et milieu urbain par Christiane Weber     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
M. Steiner (ed.), Clusters and Regional Specialisation. On Geography,Technology, and Networks
Denis J.B. Shaw, Russia in the Modern World. A New Geography
Ron Martin, Money and the Space Economy     

BOOK REVIEWS

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Marxism and the Metropolis: New Perspectives in Urban Political Economy Edited by William Tabb and Larry Sawers
The Politics of Nuclear Power by Dave Elliott et. al.
Forced Labour in Colonial Africa by A.T. Nzula, I.I. Potekhin and A.Z. Zusmanovich edited and introduced by Robin Cohen     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Jean Drhze and Amartya Sen (eds), The Political Economy of Hunger. (WIDER Studies in Development Economics) David C. Korten, Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda. West Hartford Clive Moore, Jacqueline Leekie and Doug Munro (eds), Labour in theSouth Pacific Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld, Dragons in Distress: Asia's Mracle Economiesin Crisis Jomo K.S., Growth and Structural Change in the Malaysian Economy David Simon (ed.), Third World Regional Development: A Reappraisal Philip Hunt, Rainforest Politics. Ecological Destruction in South-East Asia Nirmal Sengupta, Managing Common Property: Irrigation in India and the Philippines Siegfried Pausewang, Fantu Cheru, Stefan Briine and Eshetu Chole (eds), Ethiopia:RuraI Development Options Amrit Wilson. The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution David Archer and Patrick Costello, Ltferucy and Power: The Lufin AmericunBuffleground Bjorn Hettne, Development Theory and the Three Worlds     

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Book reviewed in this article: Squatter, selector, and storkeeper, A history of the Darling Downs, 1859-93, by D.B. Waterson, A boriginal Habitat and Economy, by Roger Lawrence,     

Review

Town Populations: The Aboriginal Component in the Australian Economy. Part 2. E. A. Young and E. K. Fisk (eds). Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1982. Pp. xv + 171. Price $12.00 (paper).     

PONAPE: A PACIFIC ECONOMY IN TRANSITION: A REVIEW ARTICLE

Ponape: A Pacific Economy in Transition. A Review Article. By William R. Bascom. Anthropological Records, Vol. 22. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, U.S.A., 1965. Pp. 156. Price $US; 3.     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Marginal Economy? East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages , by Mark Bailey. Peripheralisation and Industrial Change , edited by G. J. R. Linge. Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics , by Nancy L. Stokey and Robert E. Lucas, Jr., with Edward C. Prescott. Facility Location Analysis: Theory and Applications , edited by François V. Louveaux, Martine Labbé, and Jacques-François Thisse. Expert Systems: Applications to Urban Planning , edited by Tschangho John Kim, Lyna L. Wiggins, and Jeff R. Wright. Modelling Urban Housing Market Dynamics , by L. J. G. Van Wissen and Annamarie Rima. Choice and Allocation Models for the Housing Market , by Jan Rouwendal. The Economic Value of Visibility , edited by George Tolley and Robert Fabian. Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Political Economy Approach , by A. Allan Schmid. Regional Economic Modeling in Theory and in Practice , by Curtis C. Harris, Jr. and Mehrzad Nadji. Integrated Multiregion Models for Policy Analysis: An Australian Perspective , by Christine Smith. Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives , edited by Isao Orishimo, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, and Peter Nijkamp.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests
Searching for Place: Ukrainian Displaced Persons, Ottawa and the Migration of Memory
China's Regions, Polity, and Economy: A Study of Spatial Transformation in the Post-Reform Era
Geopolitical Traditions: A Century of Geopolitical Thought
De-centring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis
In Search of Sustainability: BC Forest Policy in the 1990s
Unhealthy Places: The Ecology of Risk in the Urban Landscape
Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America     

A Fleet in Being: The Rise and Fall of Italian Sea Power, 1861–1943

JAMES D. TRACY, ed. The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and World Trade 1350–1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. vi, 504.

K.N. CHAUDHURI. Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii, 477.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky , Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
Michael Storper and Richard Walker , The Capitalist Imperative. Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth
Michael K. Heiman , The Quiet Evolution, Power, Planning and Profits in New York State
Margrit Eichler , Nonsexist Research Methods: A Practical Guide.     

Making Environmental Diplomacy an Integral Part of Diplomatic History

Tony Brenton. The Greening of Machiavelli: The Evolution of International Environmental Politics
Lynton K. caldwell. International Environmental Policy
John McCormick. Reclaiming Paradise: The Global Environmental Movement
Jim MacNeill, Pieter Winsemius, and TaizoYakushiji. Beyond Interdependence: the Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology
Gareth Porter and Janet Welsh Brown. Global Environmental Politics
Jeremy Rifkin. Biosphere Politics: A New Consciousness for a New Century
Wolfgang Sachs, ed. Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict
Lawrence Susskind. Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective International Agreements     

Book Reviews

M. P. Cowen and R. W. Shenton, Doctrines of Development Peter W. Preston, Development Theory: An Introduction John Brohman, Popular Development: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Development Stuart Corbridge (ed.), Development Studies: A Reader Development and Social Diversity—Development in Practice Readers Peter Willets (ed.), The Conscience of the World. The Influence of Non-Governmental Organisations in the UN System Patricia L. McCarney (ed.), Cities and Governance: New Directions in Latin America, Asia and Africa Robin Luckham and Gordon White (eds), Democratization in the South: The Jagged Wave Kunibert Raffer and Hans W. Singer, The Foreign Aid Business: Economic Assistance and Development Co-operation William Ryrie, First World, Third World Robert Z. Lawrence, Regionalism, Multilateralism, and Deeper Integration Robert Z. Lawrence, Albert Bressand and Takatoshi Ito, A Vision for the World Economy: Openness, Diversity, and Cohesion Jan Joost Teunissen (ed.), Regionalism and the Global Economy. The Case of Africa Lennart Petersson (ed.), Post-Apartheid Southern Africa: Economic Challenges and Policies for the Future Ben Fine and Zavareh Rustomjee, The Political Economy of South Africa: From Minerals-Energy Complex to Industrialisation Owen Crankshaw, Race, Class and the Changing Division of Labour under Apartheid Finn Tarp and Peter Brixen, The South African Economy: Macroeconomic Prospects for the Medium Term Deborah F. Bryceson (ed.), Women Wielding the Hoe: Lessons from Rural Africa for Feminist Theory and Development Practice Leif Manger with Hassan Abd el Ati, Sharif Harir, Knut Krzywinski, Ole R. Vetaas, Survival on Meagre Resources. Hadendowa Pastoralism in the Red Sea Hills Emmanuel Manzungu and Pieter van der Zaag (eds), The Practice of Smallholder Irrigation. Case Studies from Zimbabwe Margaret Hall and Tom Young, Confronting Leviathan. Mozambique since Independence David Murray, Angels and Devils. Thai Politics from February 1991 to September 1992—A Struggle for Democracy? Alan R. Kluver, Legitimating the Chinese Economic Reforms: A Rhetoric of Myth and Orthodoxy Walter Hatch and Kozo Yamamura, Asia in Japan's Embrace. Building a Regional Production Alliance Albert Berry (ed.), Poverty, Economic Reform and Income Distribution in Latin America Pieter de Vries, Unruly Clients in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica: A Study of How Bureaucrats Try and Fail to Transform Gatekeepers, Communists and Preachers into Ideal Beneficiaries Christine Barrow, The Family in the Caribbean: Themes and Perspectives Barbara Harriss-White, A Political Economy of Agricultural Markets in South India. Masters of the Countryside Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, India. Economic Development and Social Opportunity     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Highway Benefits: An Analytical Framework. By Herbert Mohring and Mitchell Harwitz.
Man, Mind and Land: A Theory of Resource Use. By Walter Firey.
Markets for California Products: An Analysis of the Sources of Demand. By W. L. Hansen, R. T. Robson, and C. M. Tiebout.
The Economy of Cyprus. By A. J. Meyer with Simos Vassiliou.
Agricultural Rents in Theory and Practice: An Annotated Bibliography. By Carey B. Singleton, Jr.     

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The Evolution of Canada's Metropolitan Economies by WILLIAM I. COFFEY
LLRW Disposal Facility Siting: Success and Failures in Six Countries: by A. VARI, p. REACAN-CIRINCIONE, and J.L. MUMPOWER
The Right Place: Shared Responsibility and the Location of Public Facilities by BRYAN H. MASSAM
Naming Canada: Stories about Place Names from Canadian Geographic by ALAN RAYBURN
Buildings and Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types by THOMAS A. MARKUS
Boundaries of the City: The Architecture of Western Urbanism by ALAN WATERHOUSE
The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future by MICHAEL JACOBS     

Book Reviews

Walter Isard, History of Regional Science and the Regional Science Association International: The Beginnings and Early History Robert E. Lang, Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis Lori G. Kletzer, Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss ? Wei‐Bin Zhang, Theory of Interregional Dynamics: Models of Capital, Knowledge and Economic Structures Matthew P. Drenna, The Information Economy and American Cities Zoltan J. Acs, Innovation and the Growth of Cities Zoltan Acs, Henri L. F. de Groot, and Peter Nijkamp, (eds.) The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy: A Regional Perspective Robert Mendelsohn, (ed) Global Warming and the American Economy: A Regional Assessment of Climate Change Impacts Lykke E. Andersen, Clive W.J. Granger, Eustáquio J. Reis, DianaWeinhold, and Sven Wunder, The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon, Tim O’Riordan and Susanne Stoll‐Kleemann, (eds) Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities: Protecting beyond the Protected Blair A. Ruble, Jodi Koehn, and Nancy E. Popson, (eds) Fragmented Space in the Russian Federation Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson, and Roger R. Stough, Regional Policies and Comparative Advantage Karl Haglund, Inventing the Charles River Jos van Ommeren, Commuting and Relocation of Jobs and Residences Gregory D. Squires, (ed) Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses