Regional Economic Development and History

✍ Scribed by Marijn Molema; Sara Svensson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Prolegomenon
Bringing the past back in: Taking history seriously in the study of regional development
References
Introduction
1 The importance of history for regional economic development
Aim and key questions of the book
Content of the book
Disciplinary and theoretical explorations
Innovations in research design and methodology
Empirical case studies
Time to look forward, and time to look back
Part I Disciplinary and theoretical explorations
2 Regional development, history and the institutional lens
Introduction
History and social sciences: A dynamic relationship
Divergence (1890–1945)
Convergence (1945–1980)
The institutional turn
Institutions and the economy
Institutions and the political
Institutional analysis and development in space
Regional development in the social sciences
Regional development in history
Conclusion: A new engagement for regional history
References
3 Behavioural economic geography and regional history
: Explaining uneven development from a human perspective
Introduction
Human behaviour and regional development
Institutions and culture
Psychology and personality science
The psychocultural profile of cities and regions
Human agency and regional economic history
Conclusions
References
Part II Innovations in research design and methodology
4 An interdisciplinary approach to the persistent effects of Polish partitions on educational achievements
Introduction
Why history matters
Methodological explorations
Historical insight
Quasi-experimental methods in economic research
Combining geographic and economic approaches: A Geographical Regression Discontinuity Design
Sociological research
Results of the research
Historical partitions and educational achievements in Poland – literature review
Results of cartographic and econometric analysis5
How does history matter? Sociological research based on historical insight
Social capital and trust in the education system
Formative versus applicative role of education
Conclusions
Notes
References
5 Regional GDP before GDP
: A methodological survey of historical regional accounts
Introduction
Historical regional GDP: Methodological challenges
Proxy-based approach for GDP
Proxy-based approach for regional business cycles
Regional employment-based method
Direct estimates, mixed and alternative method
Swedish historical national accounts: Sources and methods
Swedish regional accounts (1750–2010): The longest regional series
A historical accident: The 1571 benchmark
Conclusions and future research
Notes
References
6 Comparative research designs
: Interdependence as challenge and opportunity in regional studies
Introduction: Purpose, terminology, and layout of the chapter
Interdependence: Spatial and temporal dimensions
Comparative research designs and interdependence: A typology
Cross-sectional design and spatial interdependence
Development design and temporal interdependence
Comparative sequence design and temporal-spatial interdependence
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part III Empirical case studies
7 Catching the ladder: The formation and growth of the São Paulo automotive industry cluster
Introduction
History matters: Cluster institutions, strategic policies and large enterprises in the formation of the São Paulo auto-industry
The cluster’s origins, 1900s–1929
Looking for the critical mass: A trade association behind the cluster’s first boost, 1930–1955
Growth: Industrial policy and hub firms, 1956–1974
Concluding remarks: A long-run view
Notes
References
8 Urban and regional development policy
: Its history and its differences
Context
The coming into being of urban and regional development policy
National difference and national conjunctures
Concluding comments
Notes
References
9 Spatial-economic development : The effect of urbanization on education in China, 1890–present
Introduction
Quantifying urbanisation
The historical dimension
Urbanisation in New China
The pre-1949 effect of urbanisation on education
The 1949–1979 period
The Reform Period
Active migration
Government-induced migration
Conclusion
Notes
References
Conclusions
10 Setting an agenda for a “New Regional History”
Introduction
Societal challenges
Construction of regions
Multidisciplinary exchange
Comparison and transfer
“New Regional History”
References
Index