Regional economics
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Regional economics is a sub-discipline of
Regional Economics: refer to the economic advantage of a geographical location and human activities of greatest height to contribute maximally to the general growth and prosperity of the region.
Origins
Regional economics has shared many traditions with regional science, whose earlier development was propelled by Walter Isard and some economists' dissatisfaction with the existing regional economic analysis. Despite such a rather critical view of regional economics, however, it is hard to be denied that the "economic" approach to regional problems was and has been the most significant one throughout the development of regional science. As a sub-discipline of economics, it has also developed its independent traditions and approaches that conform with the subject matter or perspective of economics.
Definition
In his Regional Economic Growth (1969), Horst Siebert viewed regional economics as the study of humans' economic behavior in space. Drawing from the definition of regional economics as the system of the scholarly answers to the question "What is where, and why--and so what?" in An Introduction to Regional Economics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971; 3rd ed., 1984) by Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratanai, and from Dubey's (1964: 29) definition of regional economics as "the study of differentiation and interrelationships of areas in a universe of unevenly distributed and imperfectly mobile resources with particular emphasis in application on the planning of the social overhead capital investments to mitigate the social problems by these circumstances," it is definable as the study of the systems of how (much) and where to produce and redistribute what using scarce resources or public goods.
See also
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Organizations
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- American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
- Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc (ANZRSAI Inc)
- Community and Regional Economics Network (CRENET)
- European Regional Science Association
- Mid-Continent Regional Science Association
- National Economic Development Organizations in the United States
- North American Regional Science Council
- Pacific Regional Science Conference Organization
- Regional and Urban Economics, Real Estate: Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
- Regional Science Association International
- Regional Science Consortium at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center
- Regional Studies Association
- Southern Regional Science Association
- Western Regional Science Association
Journals
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- Spatial Economic Analysis
- Annals of Regional Science[permanent dead link]
- Canadian Journal of Regional Science
- Growth and Change
- Industrial Geographer
- International Regional Science Review
- Investigaciones Regionales (en español)
- Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy
- Journal of Regional Science
- Journal of Urban Economics
- Papers in Regional Science
- Regional Economies and Policies
- Regional Science and Urban Economics
- Regional Studies
- Review of Regional Studies
- Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies
- Regional Science Policy & Practice