This article attempts to explore how key notions from Evolutionary Economics, such as selection, path-dependency, chance and increasing returns, may be applied to two key topics in Economic Geography. The first issue is the problem of how to specify the (potential) impact of the spatial...

European economies are undergoing dramatic changes, determined by the rise in knowledge-intensity of economic activities, as an effect of the escalating pace of technological change, on one hand, and by the increasing globalization of economic affairs, driven by markets liberalization, on the...

Autarky is a concept of Greek classical thought, misplaced in history, that has demerits its original sense, regardless of any possible synergy that refer to the selfsought by him. This article explores various theoretical reflections to rethink stages in the evolution of the autarky in rural...

The small progress made in the direction of implementing the strategy of the European model – the Lisbon Strategy led the social analysts to talk about the necessity of reinventing the European social model. This paper points to the pressures which led to the manifestation of the crisis of the...

This article explores the situation in the rural environment in terms of the phenomenon of globalisation, taking as a model an outlying area of the province of León. Although a priori it might not appear to be the case, globalisation is actually stimulating rural areas into seeking new means of...

Starting with the 1st of January 2007, when Romania adhered to the European Union, the national competences of elaboration and application of the external commercial politics of Romania have been transferred to the level of the European Union, who exercises jointly with the other states of the...

The paper is devoted to developing quantitative foresights on the three integrated scenarios presented in the previous chapter. In particular, a short summary of the methodological aspects of quantitative foresights is provided; and, especially, the empirical results obtained at regional and...

The 51st ERSA Conference held in Barcelona in 2011 was one of the largest ever. Here, by examining the characteristics of the conference, this paper identifies the main trends in Regional Science at a moment in which the discipline is renewing its efforts to provide responses in a complex,...

Gesamtgesellschaftliche Veränderungen wie die Globalisierung, der wirtschaftliche oder der demographische Wandel scheinen immer komplexere Problemlagen in den Städten zu erzeugen. Verwahrlosungstendenzen im öffentlichen Raum, leer stehende Wohn- und Gewerbeflächen oder auch sozial schwierige...

This article analyzes the main existing theories on income and population city growth: the existence of increasing returns to scale, the importance of locational fundamentals, and random growth. To do this we develop a nonlinearity test that is implemented to a dataset on urban, climatological...