Spain's new economic geography: The Mediterranean axis

1992 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Morris
Author(s):  
Dimitris K Chronopoulos ◽  
Sotiris Kampanelis ◽  
Daniel Oto-Peralías ◽  
John O S Wilson

Abstract This article investigates the legacy of ancient Phoenician, Greek and Etruscan colonialism in shaping the economic geography of the Mediterranean region. Utilising historical data on ancient colonies and current data on population density and night light emissions (as a proxy for economic activity), we find that geographical areas colonised by these ancient civilisations have higher population density and economic activity in the present day. We also find that ancient colonialism affected the origin and evolution of the urban system of cities and settlements prevalent in the Mediterranean region.


2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Martin ◽  
P. Sunley

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil McDermott

Peck’s (2012) reaction to the colonizing impulse of economics is a call to consolidation of economic geography, better connecting diverse sites of inquiry. This appears to be a reaction to the current incursion of orthodoxy in the form of the New Economic Geography into the domain of the old economic geography. This incursion carries with it the ideological eminence of the market which oversimplifies the nature of exchange and consequently obscures the processes which shape places. I question Peck’s proposition. From an applied perspective our understanding of the real world benefits from the heterogeneity of economic geography. Academic resilience comes from diversity. As a result, economic geography already provides a strong and grounded basis for resisting the monotheism of orthodox economics. (I also question the use of the island life analogy as a didactic device in a critique of a similar device, the neoclassical market model.)


Author(s):  
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano ◽  
Jacques-François Thisse

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