System

System
Author: Arch Wilkinson Shaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 758
Release: 1925
Genre: Business
ISBN:

System

System
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 754
Release: 1925
Genre: Business
ISBN:

Reconstructing Urban Economics

Reconstructing Urban Economics
Author: Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1783606622

Neoclassical economics, the intellectual bedrock of modern capitalism, faces growing criticisms, as many of its key assumptions and policy prescriptions are systematically challenged. Yet, there remains one field of economics where these limitations continue virtually unchallenged: the study of cities and regions in built-environment economics. In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom draws on institutional, Georgist and Marxist economics to clearly but comprehensively show what the key issues are today in thinking about urban economics. In doing so, he demonstrates the widespread tensions and contradictions in the status quo, showing how to reconstruct urban economics in order to create a more just society and environment.