Making the Most of Smallness: Economic Policy in Microstates and Sub-national Island Jurisdictions

Space and Polity

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 183-196

  Grydehøj, Adam ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMIC POLICY; INNOVATION; MARKETING; TOURISM MARKET;

SCOTLAND; SHETLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84862270053     PISSN: 13562576     EISSN: 14701235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2011.692578     Document Type: Article

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