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7.7 Hallmark events: Culture and sports as marketing tools

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7.8 Conclusion

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Institutions and intervention: Can spatial growth be directed?

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8.1 Introduction

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8.2 Myrdal’s theory of cumulative causation

8.3 Perroux’s growth poles

8.4 Can intervention prevent regional contrasts? 8.5 State intervention via public policy: The tools

8.6 Market organization and planning

8.7 Conclusion

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Evolutionary growth theory

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9.1 Introduction

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9.2 Boom and bust: The theory of long economic cycles 9.3 Clustering as a result of evolutionary processes

9.4 Conclusion

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Epilogue

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10.1 Economics and geography

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10.2 Location choice and regional economic growth

10.3 Regional growth and development

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Literature

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