Mobility in Space and Time : Challenges to the Theory of International Economics /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pohl, Nicole
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2001.
Series:Contributions to economics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: aims and conceptions
  • A concept of mobility in space and time: Mobility in the 21th century: some empirical observations
  • Mobility in space and time
  • structuring a complex phenomenon. Mobility in the theory of international economics: General possibilities and restrictions of theoretical modelling
  • International flows of goods and factors
  • traditional theory of international economics
  • New trade theory and multinational corporations
  • Non-linear dynamics and self-organization
  • New Economic Geography. Future agenda
  • towards a theory of mobility in space and time: Between old and new concepts
  • Economic agents, capabilities and relationships in space and time
  • Geography, culture, organization and politics as determinants of distance
  • Spaces of multinationalization
  • Novelty, capabilities and heterogeneity of agents
  • A new understanding of a complex matter
  • A formal model of mobility. Between given knowledge and new challenges: Conclusion.