Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
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The Brexit vote is ten today.
#Brexit was the revenge of voters tired of being told they had no future in the places they live in.
Future Brexits can be preventing by not to scolding voters as "deplorables" and reviving their regions through #development.
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The best #innovation policy may be a court that works. Agostino, Nifo, Ruberto, Scalera & Trivieri show in Eurasian Business Review that rule of law helps firms innovate at home and dulls the premium of internationalisation.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Economic geography ignores ordinary places for the glamour of superstar cities. In @proghumgeog.bsky.social, @howard-hw.bsky.social, Bathelt & @maxbuchholz.bsky.social show how many #cities in the #USA have boomed but also how breakthroughs built on fossil #fuels are fragile.
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#Climate ambition needs bold action and skillful management.
The Cañada Blanch Centre & the European Institute host @nadiacalvino.eib.org, president of the @eib.org, at the #LSEFestival.
She will talk about financing #Europe’s green #transition.
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Subsidiarity was meant to bring #Europe closer to its citizens. However, @danielrauhut.bsky.social argues in @rsa-tpg.bsky.social that, in weaker regions, it does the opposite, passing down responsibility but not capacity.
Empowerment becomes a velvet name for neglect. doi.org/10.1080/2162...
Is #Peru the new normal? Two anti-system populists, right & one, split by a fraction of a point.
The moderate mainstream did not lose. They just did not have the strengt to show up.
This is no longer the exception but the pattern. #France may be next.
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#Innovation is less a local miracle than a traded contagion.
According to @eduherro.bsky.social in EPS, regions do not just invent from within. They absorb, recombine & diversify new knowledge through global value chains.
Prosperity starts by connecting your #economy. doi.org/10.1080/0965...
A journal very close to my heart, @econgeog-journal.bsky.social, has posted a 2025 impact factor of 11: 2nd in #geography, 7th in #economics. 1st in geography on the JCI.
Glad to see that my paper with Dijkstra & Poelman on discontent is its most-cited contributor www.tandfonline.com/journals/rec...
Latin America's vote is ever more territorial. In #Colombia & #Peru, as across the region, left-behind places revolt against the establishment behind whichever #populism voices their grievance.
The revenge of the places that don't matter, continent-wide.
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Sustainability is too often a fair-weather virtue. @sbaumgartinger.bsky.social & @balazspager.bsky.social argue in EPS that vulnerable regions treat green transition as expendable when jobs or investment feel at risk.
The real divide is not ambition but anxiety & geography.
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