Places Rated Almanacs and roll out neoliberalism

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 52-64

  Rogerson, Robert J ^a   Tremblay, Remy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Tel e University of Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cities; Economic development; Political economy; Population distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549111052     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673270810902939     Document Type: Article

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