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"Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia to Russia to Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey, the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he enlarges upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and 'space' as a key theoretical concept"--

2.1 Distributions2.1.1 Student's t Distribution; 2.1.2 General Error Distribution; 2.1.3 Beta Distribution; 2.1.4 Gamma Distribution; 2.2 Maximum Likelihood; 2.2.1 Student's t Distribution; 2.2.2 General Error Distribution; 2.2.3 Gamma Distribution; 2.2.4 Consistency and Asymptotic Normality*; 2.3 Maximum Likelihood Estimation; 2.3.1 An Information Matrix Lemma; 2.3.2 Information Matrix for the First-Order Model; 2.3.3 Information Matrix with the 0=x""010E Parameterization*; 2.3.4 Asymptotic Distribution; 2.3.5 Consistency and Asymptotic Normality*; 2.3.6 Nonstationarity.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: LIBERAL FORMULATIONS -- Chapter one: Social processes and spatial form: (1) The conceptual problems of urban planning -- The geographical versus the sociological imagination -- Towards a philosophy of social space -- Some methodological problems at the interface -- Strategy at the interface -- Chapter two: Social processes and spatial form: (2) The redistribution of real income in an urban system -- The distribution of income and the social objectives for a city system -- Some features governing the redistribution of income -- The redistributive effects of the changing location of jobs and housing -- Redistribution and the changing value of property rights -- The availability and price of resources -- Political processes and the redistribution of real income -- Social values and the cultural dynamics of the urban system -- Spatial organization and political, social and economic processes -- A concluding comment -- Chapter three: Social justice and spatial systems -- Ajust distribution -- Territorial distributive justice -- To achieve a distribution justly -- A just distribution justly achieved: territorial social justice -- PART TWO: SOCIALIST FORMULATIONS -- Chapter four: Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation -- A further comment on revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theories -- Chapter five: Use value, exchange value and the theory of urban land use -- The use value and exchange value of land and improvements -- Urban land-use theory -- Micro-economic urban land-use theory -- Rent and the allocation of urban land to uses -- Use value, exchange value, the concept of rent and theories of urban land use-a conclusion -- Chapter six: Urbanism and the city-an interpretive essay -- Modes of production and modes of economic integration.