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).

• ProlegemenonBringing the past back in: Taking history seriously in the study of regional development Ron Martin, Peter Sunley and Emil EvenhuisIntroduction1. The importance of history for regional economic development Sara Svensson and Marijn MolemaPart I: Disciplinary & theoretical explorations2. 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 ThompsonPart II: Innovations in research design and methodology4. An interdisciplinary approach to the persistent effects of Polish partitions on educational achievements Justyna Kościńska and Mikołaj Herbst5. 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 Åberg and Thomas DenkPart III: Empirical case studies7. Catching the ladder: The formation and growth of the São Paulo automotive industry cluster Tomàs Fernández-de-Sevilla and Armando J. dalla Costa8. Urban and regional development policy: Its history and its differences Kevin Cox9. Spatial-economic development: The effect of urbanisation on education in China, 1890–present Meimei Wang and Bas van LeeuwenConclusions10. Setting an agenda for a "New Regional History" Marijn Molema