ABSTRACT
Regional Studies is inextricably intertwined with history. Cultural and institutional legacies inform choices between different policy options, meaning that the past plays a crucial role in how we think about regional economic development, planning and policy.
Through a selection of accessible theoretical, methodological and empirical chapters, this book explores the connections between regional development and history. Drawing on the expertise of scholars in several disciplines, it links history to topics such as behavioural geography, interdependence, divergence and regional and urban policy.
This innovative book will be of interest to researchers across regional studies, planning, economic geography and economic history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Prolegomenon
chapter |6 pages
Bringing the past back in
part |2 pages
Introduction
part I|2 pages
Disciplinary and theoretical explorations
chapter 3|25 pages
Behavioural economic geography and regional history
part II|2 pages
Innovations in research design and methodology
chapter 6|19 pages
Comparative research designs
part III|2 pages
Empirical case studies
chapter 7|26 pages
Catching the ladder
chapter 9|19 pages
Spatial-economic development
part |2 pages
Conclusions
