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Regional Dynamics

by Kenneth Button, Kingsley E. Haynes, Li Qiangsheng e Peter Nijkamp

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 Regional Dynamics analyses the process of change that occurs within and between regions. Special attention is given to economics and social behaviour and processes and social organization such as industries and governments.
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Analytical Urban Economics

by Harry W. Richardson, Heonsoo Park, Kenneth Button e Peter Nijkamp

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 This major new reference work includes a selection of the most important articles and papers on urban economic theory published during the last twenty years.
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Transport And Land Use

by Hirotada Kohno, Joseph Berechman, Kenneth Button e Peter Nijkamp

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 Since land use planning and transportation planning play a major role in shaping these relationships, special attention is given to studies on planning issues and policies.
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Location Theory

by Jacques-Francoi Thisse, Kenneth Button e Peter Nijkamp

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 Another important reason for this attention is the growing awareness among economists that a comprehensive economic theory can no longer put space aside. Most economic activities are distributed over space, and for such activities space moulds the very nature of competition between firms.
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Hume

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 The work of David Hume (1711-76), the Scottish historian and philosopher, constitutes a break with the assumptions of his predecessors who suggested that our ideas and practices answered to a rational design, whether divine or human.
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Locke

by Ian Harris e John Dunn

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 John Locke (1632-1704), the English philosopher, has had a wide-ranging influence on modern political thought. Locke's political philosophy is based on the premise that by nature human beings are equal and that therefore no-one is under the authority of another unless by his own consent.
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Hobbes

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 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his development of the concept of sovereignty, which was treated most clearly in his great work, Leviathan.
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Grotius

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 Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), the Dutch jurist and philosopher, is a key theorist of the post-mediaeval state. His political writings develop the consequences of this condition including the construction of state authority in terms of 'natural rights', acknowledging the right to self-protection and the needs of individuals.
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More

by Ian Harris e John Dunn

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 Thomas More (1478-1535), English statesman, author and saint, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat, a leading member of the Renaissance of northern Europe and a defender of the Roman Catholic faith.
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Machiavelli

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 (Some believe his first name is the proper basis of an appellation of the Devil.)Although a lucid writer in many respects, the metaphorical way in which Machiavelli expressed some of his key concepts and his preference for working through examples rather that elaborating principles has given much scope for debate about his actual intentions.
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Aquinas

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 Thomas Aquinas (1224-74) was born in Naples of a powerful Italian family. He took part in the major philosophical and theological controversies of his day and fought the decisive battle which re-admitted the study of the works of Aristotle.
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Augustine

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 Born in what is now Algeria, Augustine trained in classical Latin rhetoric and became a professor of rhetoric in Rome. He later studied neo-Platonic philosophy and experienced a conversion to Christianity in 386.
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Aristotle

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 Aristotle (384-322 BC) was born in Northern Greece. He moved to Athens where he associated himself with Plato's academy. He later became tutor to the young Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court but returned to Athens in 335 to found his own school of philosophy.
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Plato

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 Plato of Athens (c 429-347 BC) is the earliest European thinker whose thoughts on politics survive to any great extent. His work, contained in The Republic, the Statesman, the Laws and the unfinished Critias, amongst other works, has made major contributions to the agenda of Western Political thought and its content.

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