Regional Economic Development and History

Marijn Molema is a historian and working as programme leader at the Frisian Institute of Social Research. He is also a guest researcher at the Fryske Akademy, a research institute in the city of Leeuwarden of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sara Svensson is a political scientist specializing in regional collaboration across national borders. She is Senior Lecturer at Halmstad University in Sweden and Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University in Budapest (Hungary).

Prolegemenon Bringing the past back in: Taking history seriously in the study of regional development Ron Martin, Peter Sunley and Emil Evenhuis Introduction 1. The importance of history for regional economic development Sara Svensson and Marijn Molema Part I: Disciplinary & theoretical explorations 2. Regional development, history and the institutional lens Marijn Molema and John Tomaney 3. Behavioural economic geography and regional history: Explaining uneven development from a human perspective Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson Part II: Innovations in research design and methodology 4. An interdisciplinary approach to the persistent effects of Polish partitions on educational achievements Justyna Kociska and Mikoaj Herbst 5. Regional GDP before GDP: A methodological survey of historical regional accounts Kerstin Enflo and Anna Missiaia 6. Comparative research designs: Interdependence as challenge and opportunity in regional studies Martin berg and Thomas Denk Part III: Empirical case studies 7. Catching the ladder: The formation and growth of the So Paulo automotive industry cluster Tom s Fernndez-de-Sevilla and Armando J. dalla Costa 8. Urban and regional development policy: Its history and its differences Kevin Cox 9. Spatial-economic development: The effect of urbanisation on education in China, 1890present Meimei Wang and Bas van Leeuwen Conclusions 10. Setting an agenda for a "New Regional History" Marijn Molema