"Horizon" by Barry Lopez, 2019. [book review]

05 Book Review Barry 36.2

“Sticky places in slippery space” is one of the best-known phrases from the literature on economic geography. The “slippery space” is the globalised world of highly mobile capital, labour and technology. The “sticky places” are the successful regions in which these factors agglomerate. This book is, inter alia, an analysis of how Ireland became sticky over the course of the 1990s. The author, S...

Book Review: Cuba's Aborted Reforms by C. Mesa-Lago and J. Perez-Lopez

This book consists of six substantive and relatively independent chapters addressing various aspects of Cuba’s economic system, the policies that have governed its functioning and potential changes in the near future. While the first chapter provides a historical overview of the policies followed by the Castro regime between 1960 and 2004, the last chapter focuses attention on possible future r...

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