Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
Extremely honoured and proud to become the director of the Cañada Blanch Centre
@LSEnews
and to inherit the Princesa de Asturias Chair. Humbled to follow in the footsteps of Professor Paul Preston and grateful for the continuous and generous support of the
@FCanadaBlanch
.
The flow of
#university
students to universities in small
#cities
can become a fundamental driver for institutional change and economic
#development
in remote areas of our countries.
Great new paper by
@mmadafonseca
in Geoforum.
A new form of
#discontent
—a ‘
#green
discontent’—is emerging in territories that bear the brunt of the
#GreenTransition
.
If unchecked, it will erode public support for
#climate
action and imperil attempts to further decarbonise economies.
Great farewell from
@LSEGeography
to the one, the only, truly amazing and stupendous
@IammarinoSimona
.
She leaves a deep academic mark in the Department and at
@LSEnews
. But, more importantly, her drive, enthusiasm and zest for life remains etched in us all.
Arrivederci, Simona.
Extremely honoured to have been awarded the 2020 Best Paper prize in
@RegionalStudies
.
Very grateful to the editors, for their trust in my research, and to my co-authors
@DijkstraLewis
& Hugo Poelman, without whom this award would have been impossible.
The rise of
#populism
is more related to the long-term economic
#decline
of places that have seen better times and have become ‘expendable’ than to increases in
#inequality
.
New article in the first ever issue of the LSE Public Policy Review
#openaccess
Find out how
#populist
your town or city is. First interactive map of the votes for parties strongly opposed or opposed to European integration, covering more than 63,000 electoral districts in the
#EU
28.
#populism
Read more here:
Delighted to have won (with T. Ketterer) the Martin Beckmann Award for the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2018
Many thanks to the editors (and congrats for a 2.02 IF) and to the three members of the jury
The glaring large city/small town-rural cleavage in the
#USElection2020
vote.
Long-term employment and population
#decline
in much of small town & rural
#America
means that, without active development policies, the social & political divide will only grow.
Extremely honoured and proud to have been awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Rector and the Board for the Conferral of Doctoral Degrees at
@UtrechtUni
. Very grateful to my
#HonorisCausa
supervisor, Ron Boschma, and to everyone else involved in the process.
Honoured to be, once again, among the world's 6,602 Highly Cited Researchers 2021.
Particularly proud for being one of the 263 named for their exceptional influence and performance in the Social Sciences.
See the full list of
#HighlyCitedResearchers
2021
Why has
#Barcelona
, the city that was better positioned four decades ago to emerge as the main Spanish economic hub, lost out to
#Madrid
in economic terms?
New paper with Dan Hardy in Growth & Change.
#openaccess
Why don't we have indicators of regional interpersonal
#inequality
in
#Europe
?
Why do we know far more about manure storage facilities or the location of pigs than about inequality?
My team has taken a first stab at mapping regional inequality in the EU
In
#Europe
, many regions that were formerly motors of development are caught in a
#DevelopmentTrap
. This fuels the perception that there is a two-tier Europe, divided between a small number of dynamic superregions & ever-growing ranks of left behind places
Honoured and proud to be featured in
@Clarivate
's
#HighlyCited2023
list for the 4th consecutive year, as one of only 230 social scientists.
Immensely grateful to my co-authors and to colleagues for their support & appreciation of my research over the years
Clarivate unveils the 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list—6,849 influential minds from 67 countries, with 83.8% emerging from the top 10 nations.
The U.S. leads with 37.5% followed by China at 17.9%, doubling in 5 years.
#HighlyCited2023
Very happy and honoured and, at the same time, humbled, to have been awarded the ERSA Prize in Regional Science 2018
Walking in the footsteps of giants in the field!
The Jury of the ERSA Prize Committee is pleased to announce that the ERSA Prize in Regional Science 2018 is awarded to Prof. Andrés Rodrígues-Pose prize for his outstanding contribution to pushing the boundaries of regional science.
@rodriguez_pose
@LSEGeography
@NewsRSAI
A classic in the making.
The new issue of
@CamJRES
on the Geographies of
#Discontent
will shape our thinking on the growing disaffection with the extablished political system.
Our small contribution to this magnum opus here:
GOVERNMENT QUALITY & ITS COST IN LIVES
The countries with the highest
#COVID__19
related excess death rates -
#UK
,
#Spain
,
#Italy
, and
#Belgium
- share one thing: a seriously deteriorating
#government
quality over the last 20 years.
Congratulations to Prof Andrés Rodriguez-Pose (
@rodriguez_pose
), winner of the prestigious ERSA European prize in Regional Science 2018! Andrés has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to pushing the boundaries of regional science:
Extremely honoured to have been awarded an honorary doctorate by
@JonkopingUni
, one of the most dynamic and fastest growing universities in Europe. Will wear my doctoral hat and ring with pride and remain an ambassador for JIBS and the university
Pictures by
@jmoodysson
& E.Lappi
The special issue of Applied Geography "Patterns and Consequences of
#Inequalities
in the Geographic
#Periphery
", co-edited with Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen is now complete and out.
Please check it here 👇:
Introducing the Regional Green Transition Vulnerability Index, which measures how the benefits and costs of the
#GreenTransition
are distributed.
The direct and indirect impacts of the
#Green
Transition in the
#EU
vary significantly from region to region.
The
@WorldBank
and place-based
#development
intervention.
If you are looking for a theoretical and empirical framework to tap into the economic potential of every place, Arti Grover,
@SomikCities
& William Maloney provide a very interesting one.
Has the World Bank definitely gone place-based? Excellent report on using
#cohesionpolicy
to deliver on the full potential of
#Europe
's
#regions
just out.
The left behind places of the North of England have decided the
#UKelection2019
. They have exacted the revenge of the 'places that don't matter' by voting for the
#populist
version of the very party that made them
#placesthatdontmatter
in the first place.
The debate about the economic impact of
#decentralisation
has been misguided.
It is not about whether more or less
#autonomy
is needed, but about whether the
#resources
available to subnational
#governments
suffice to address the responsibilities they face
Economists got it wrong! Territorial
#inequality
- and not high land rents, congestion or even interpersonal inequality - is behind the rise of
#populism
. Areas left behind have used the ballot box as their weapon against the system.
#placesthatdontmatter
The geographical concentration of innovation takes only place for cutting-edge, frontier technologies, not for the less complex ones.
@pa_balland
on his seminal joint paper
#geoinno2020
What makes some places more entrepreneurial than others? Regional differences in
#personality
- estimated by applyig
#AI
to more than 1.5 billion
#Twitter
posts - may provide the answer to the question
#entrepreneurship
#geoinno2020
has rapidly grown to be the conference for
#innovation
. Cut-edge papers, sharp discussions, superb hosts, excellent support for early career researchers and, above all, the friendliest atmosphere you will ever experience at a conference. See you all in
#Milan
2022.
One of the biggest challenges of 2019: understanding the rise of
#populism
,
#antisystem
and
#antiEuropean
voting and tackling the roots of the problem head on.
This is the place to start.
New open access paper with
@DijkstraLewis
and Hugo Poelman.
#EP2019
The map representing the intensity of support for
#Vox
in yesterday's
#SpanishElections
.
I challenge my Spanish friends to show that this vote and that for other nationalistic parties is not a revenge of the
#placesthatdontmatter
By focusing
#development
policy on wider sectors, rather than just on R&D-intensive ones, the benefits will spread more widely in society.
@hansen_teis
pushing the boundaries of economic
#geography
in his new
@RegionalStudies
paper.
The rise of
#populism
across the world, while cast as a tale of two inequalities, is not really a result of rising interpersonal or territorial
#inequality
but a
#revenge
of people living in places that have seen far better times.
Celebrating Dr. Martina Pardy's incredible journey! Great thesis, stellar performance in her viva—now off to new adventures. Many congratulations,
@MartinaPardy
! 🎉
Many thanks as well to the two examiners:
@euyarra
& Yannis Psycharis.
Not a bad audience for my keynote on the revenge of the
#placesthatdontmatter
at the 110th anniversary conference of the Geographical Society of
#China
in
#Beijing
.
Background material here:
#Migration
makes us wealthier in the long-run. Places that attracted
#migrants
from very diverse national and international origins over a century ago are significantly
#richer
today than those that were marked by a more homogeneous
#population
at the time
On Thursday, the Report of the High-Level Group on the Future of
#Cohesion
Policy was launched in
#Brussels
.
I normally don't do threads 🧵 but, given the importance of the Report and its potential policy influence, this time it is worth it:
My good friend, colleague and co-author Michael Storper awarded the Prix Vautrin-Lud —considered as the Nobel in
#Geography
— this weekend.
No one deserves it more. Michael has been a great inspiration and a constant source of new ideas to understand the complex world we live in.
🌍[
#FIG2022
]
Le Prix Vautrin-Lud qui récompense un géographe pour ses recherches est décerné cette année à Michael Storper, géographe en poste à
@UCLA
et à la
@LSEnews
. Il est également professeur émérite à
@sciencespo
.
Remise officielle durant le
#FIG2022
à Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Spatial economic inequality is one of the most pressing and difficult issues of our time. Understanding it requires a multi-faceted approach & new types of data.
Bathelt,
@maxabuchholz
& Storper introducing JoEG special issue on inter-regional
#inequality
.
#Institutions
are overlooked because they are difficult to define and measure. However, no
#development
policy should neglect the institutional dimension
"Institutions & the fortunes of territories" now out. Reg Sci Policy Pract, Issue 3 2020,
#openaccess
Spatial inequality is concerning, but we don't yet fully understand all forces that contribute to it. In this new paper (with
@pa_balland
et al), we find that spatial concentration is larger for complex economic activities. (thread)
#EconTwitter
Places with limited access to essential services, lacking amenities or digital connectivity, with low political engagement, losing population can become a
#lonely
places.
New report "From lonely places to places of opportunity",
@EU_ScienceHub
How do institutions shape regional and urban
#development
? How can we make sure that we deliver better public policies by improving institutions?
Long awaited RSPP paper "
#Institutions
and the fortunes of territories" finally out in its proper version.
#openaccess
"Rural areas are becoming less trusting of the government because they perceive worse
#education
, worse
#health
, and worse economies than urban areas."
New paper by F. Mitsch,
@ndrlee
& E.R. Morrow on the
#trust
gap between
#urban
and
#rural
#Europe
.
The first wave of
#COVID
ー19 had a very uneven impact on excess mortality across countries and regions.
Plenty of good data and reflections in the newly published
#2020
edition of the
#OECD
#Regions
and
#Cities
at a Glance.
Not all types of
#socialcapital
are the same for development. Promoting
#bridging
social capital —rather than
#bonding
social capital— with the aim of bringing together heterogeneous groups will deliver higher levels of
#development
.
Extremadamente honrado de ser el nuevo director del Centro Cañada Blanch y Cátedratico Princesa de Asturias en
@LSEnews
. Orgulloso de seguir la estela de Paul Preston y muy agradecido por el continuado y generoso apoyo de la
@FCanadaBlanch
.
Why have the two most influential recent strands in regional studies and economic
#geography
—evolutionary economic geography and global production networks— ignored one another for so long?
My reply to Henry Yeung's article in
@RegionalStudies
Solitude is spreading in our societies.
People are more
#alone
and feel more
#lonely
.
But what are the aggregate economic implications of the rise in
#solitude
?
Find out in our new article —written with
@chiarabu2
— just out in Environment and Planning A.
Concentrating
#innovation
in a smaller number of bigger and more specialized regions can possibly raise the overall rate of innovation, but at the expense of other regions being deprived of the possibility of becoming innovative in the future
#Development
does not fall like manna from heaven.
It requires having the right diagnosis, a clear
#vision
, and putting in place the necessary
#policies
to attract and retain
#talent
.
@OECD
offers the toolkit to do precisely that:
A
@GCEG_Dublin2022
in
#Dublin
to be remembered! 1,000+ economic geographers showing the dynamism of the discipline in the best of environments.
Huge respect for the whole organising team &, especially for
@dfkogler
,
@PadraigCarmody
&
@regstud
.
See you in three years in Worcester!
This is the map of the
#geography
of
#EU
discontent, considering the votes for parties moderately opposed to EU integration. The conditions that brought about
#Brexit
are present in many countries. Restoring hope is more urgent than ever.
#EURegionsWeek
Is economic geography worse off because many of its members are moving to business schools? Or are geographers becoming more influential?
"Threat or opportunity? On the ‘cross-corridor diaspora’ of British economic geographers", just out in
@envplana
.
#COVID
ー19 will exacerbate, rather than reduce, regional
#inequality
. Capital and wealthy regions have a far higher capacity for
#remoteworking
than lagging and declining areas.
Excellent "
#OECD
Regions and Cities at a Glance 2020."
Most Smart Specialization (
#S3
) strategies include far too many axes of intervention and the norm is that there is limited coincidence with the strengths and specialisation of the territories for which the strategies were developed
#Decentralization
works best when autonomous
#regions
are surrounded by others with high levels of government quality.
This triggers
#competition
learning processes, resulting in policy innovation and in more efficient delivery of public goods and services
Today, 135 million, one third of the
#EU
population, lives in regions with
#GDP
per capita lower than in 2000 or with near zero
#growth
.
This situation gives rise to considerable economic and political risks & challenges EU values.