Handbook of regional growth and development theories

Regional economics – an established discipline for several decades – has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology of regional economics has shown a surprising development. The volume brings together contributions looking at new pathways in regional economics. The focus is to collect the most advanced theories explaining regional growth and local development. The authors highlight the recent adva…

Regional economics – an established discipline for several decades – has gone through a rapid pace of change in the past decade and several new perspectives have emerged. At the same time the methodology of regional economics has shown a surprising development. The volume brings together contributions looking at new pathways in regional economics. The focus is to collect the most advanced theories explaining regional growth and local development. The authors highlight the recent advances in theories, the normative potentialities of these theories and the cross-fertilization of ideas among regional economists and mainstream economists.