The New Economic Geography (NEG) has over the past decades become a leading paradigm in regional science and geography. This paper seeks to provide a retrospective and prospective look into its achievements and current challenges. Clearly, regions are not oases of tranquility. Uncertainty and...

As opposed to the common idea that a country's economic fortunes are largely determined by its success on world markets, Paul R. Krugman, Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds the view that the world's leading nations are not to any important degree in...