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Cultural Advantage for Cities An alternative for developing countries

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After more than a decade Michael Porter’s book Competitive
Advantage of Nations stays ahead of the other books, in
particular as alternative framework from the comparative
advantage idea inspired by Adam Smith.
This small book is merely an alternative proposition, a
postscript perhaps, to Porter’s book, with basic idea that one
cannot rely merely on industrial processes alone to keep
stay ahead of market changes. Hence, for cities in
developing countries the municipal shall find out their city’s
best resources, and develop their city starting from there,
instead of striving blindly in the conventional industrial path.
We focus our discussions in this book on cities, because in
our opinion a city is the smallest economic entity which has
‘self-organizing’ character [1][2], in a sense that a city can
grow by itself (with minimum intervention). Nonetheless, this
book will not discuss the self-organization character itself [3],
but a new concept called ‘Cultural Economy’ development.
Cultural Economic here is part of leisure and tourism
industry, and depends on taste, advertisement, history, and
the quality of being diverse, distinctive, with a large spectrum
of varieties.

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: ., 2008

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1-63

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English

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9-78159973-060-8

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