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Title of the article Evolvability of Spatial Economics, New Economic Geography and Crises of the 21st Century
Pages 103-119
Author Ukrainsky Vadim NikolaevichUkrainsky Vadim Nikolaevich
candidate of sciences (economics), research fellow
Economic Research Institute FEB RAS
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Abstract The first two decades of the 21st century, which are characterized by some researchers as a «polycrisis», updated the requirement for relevance to social theories, including theories of spatial development. New economic geography (NEG) is one of the significant innovations among scientific directions in the field of spatial economics of the late 20th – early 21st centuries, which currently appears rather as an unproductive generator of scientific ideas reflecting current public needs. As a study of the publications of leading researchers in this area has shown, NEG is characterized by such features as methodological reductionism, high encapsulation and self-referentiality, reflecting the prevailing desire to extract academic rent. The development of a relatively new theoretical concept as regional / urban resilience seems more promising against this background.
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DOI 10.14530/reg.2023.6.103
Keywords spatial economics, crises, regional science, new economic geography, methodological reductionism, scientific progress
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For citation Ukrainsky V.N. Evolvability of Spatial Economics, New Economic Geography and Crises of the 21st Century. Regionalistica [Regionalistics]. 2023. Vol. 10. No. 6. Pp. 103–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.14530/reg.2023.6.103 (In Russian)
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