The Washington Consensus treated policy like scripture. Besley & Velasco offer in @globalpolicy.bsky.social a more adult #economics for a more volatile age. #Growth matters, but so do place, dignity, resilience, politics and state capacity. People do not live in a vacuum. doi.org/10.1111/1758...

Europe's #circular transition is expected to create 700,000 new #jobs. But, according to Fantechi & Mazzola in European Urban and Regional Studies, these jobs will not be created in places where jobs are lost, but in regions that have little tradition of circular activity. doi.org/10.1177/0969...

As #Europe pivots to competitiveness & security, effective #green spending matters more, not less. Yet, as Aliana, Balaguer-Coll, Prior & Tortosa-Ausina show, #EU regions converge in eco-productivity once national and regional government quality is recognised. doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

Urban and rural #Europe are drifting into different political worlds, making national #elections feel less national. Pautonnie, @rdassonneville.bsky.social & Nadeau document in Party Politics how the urban–rural electoral divide is widening across the continent. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Regions escape decline when local actors have the capacity to build a new path, as Frick, McCann & Collier show how in RSRS. @andyburnham.bsky.social's #devolution is a live test. It will work only if authority arrives with finance and institutional capacity. doi.org/10.1080/2168...

A #shrinking region can still be a good place to live and may not feel left behind. Gescher, Royer, Svynarets, Leibert & Lang make the case in the Journal of Rural Studies that regional #growth and regional #wellbeing are not the same thing. doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

#Europe’s political divide has an address: #education explains a small part of the widening #urban–#rural voting gap. @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social, @theresakuhn.bsky.social & @bramlancee.bsky.social show in @ejprjournal.bsky.social that where people live matters politically. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Which institutions make a place #green? Not the economic ones, but the political: rule of law and civic participation, while corruption barely registers. Pinate, @martidalmolin.bsky.social & Brandano show this across #Italy's regions in The Annals of Regional Science. doi.org/10.1007/s001...

#Governance cannot be an afterthought in #innovation policy. It must be embedded from the start. David A. Wolfe shows in @regionalstudies.bsky.social how collaborative governance and civic capital turn transformative ambitions into regional action. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Public #investment does not revive every struggling place. Michele Mariani in Regional Science and Urban Economics finds #Italy’s Inner Areas Strategy boosted firm performance mostly in intermediate, well-governed places. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

#Spain won the #WorldCup not by serving one superstar, but by making every player matter and not orbit around a star. #Development works the same way: dynamic #cities are vital, but not when the rest becomes a supporting cast. doi.org/10.1111/j.19... doi.org/10.1080/1742...

#Innovation pays dividends, but not always where the bill is paid. Cipollina & De Pascale show in their new Structural Change and Economic Dynamicsa paper that innovation gains often spill across regional borders, creating bigger gains next door than at home. doi.org/10.1016/j.st...

Regional development has two clocks: jobs #stabilise fast; #institutions, skills and decarbonisation take time. Canário Borrega, Peixe Rego & Rocha de Sousa show in PiRS that uniform policies can deepen regional divides. #Development must respond to place. doi.org/10.1016/j.pi...

An integrated #Europe grows faster but big #cities gain most. In a new JoEG paper, Capello, @Caragliu & Dellisanti show why fragmentation delivers weaker growth and an illusion of greater #equality. Europe needs integration with territorial #cohesion doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

#Institutions are not spare parts: regional reform must build on the institutional system in place. In @regionalstudies.bsky.social, @ronboschma.bsky.social shows that Innovation, missions and the green transition depend on the rules, norms and trust already in place. space”. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Europe will converge between countries but diverge within them. Caragliu & Dellisanti show in their new Regional Science Policy & Practice paper that integration boosts growth but concentrates its gains in #large cities. Regional #inequality is made but can be reshaped. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

Geography shapes discontent without fully explaining it. Refisch, Bernard, Kostelecký & @andreasklaerner.bsky.social find in RSPP that disadvantage explains only a modest share of voting in #Czechia & East #Germany. Some individual factors may matter more. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...

The LSE has lost one of its great institution-builders. David K. C. Jones shaped a department, but more importantly, built a community. To me, he was mentor, friend and something close to a father figure. I owe him more than words permit. Rest well, David www.linkedin.com/posts/andr%C...

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#Europe cannot patent its way out of the carbon trap. Imandojemu, Orole and Chukwuka argue in Sustainable Development that #green #innovation only breaks fossil inertia when paired with deep industrial restructuring and capital renewal. doi.org/10.1002/sd.7...

Capital travels easily. Institutional competence does not. David A Wolfe, writing in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, argues that lasting renewal & #development rests on shared strategy, trusted intermediaries and habits of cooperation. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Economic maps are never innocent. Ding & Sun show in Growth and Change that, in #China, city rank is not ceremonial. It shapes #productivity by steering capital, investment and #talent. #Markets may choose places, but states often choose first. doi.org/10.1111/grow...

Industrial policy is back. Yet pouring capital into weak institutional settings is a triumph of hope over experience. In my SERIEs paper, I argue that the returns on state-led development hinge entirely on #government quality. Money cannot buy competence. doi.org/10.1007/s132...

Growth can soften inequality; inequality can blunt growth. As Wajid Ali, Cristina Brasili and Pinuccia Calia show in European Planning Studies, in Italy, #inequality is not just the residue of weak #growth; it is one of its causes. doi.org/10.1080/0965...

#Europe's next budget gets the diagnosis largely right; the treatment is another matter. In GC&RS, Federico Bartalucci & I show how a reform meant to strengthen the #EU risks leaving it less inclusive, less legitimate & democratic and more fragile. doi.org/10.1016/j.gc...

#Competitiveness is less about ideology than allocation. It is decided not in summit declarations but in factories, labs, data centres & balance sheets. The new McKinsey Global Institute report shows that whoever grasps it first will write the next economy's rules. www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-rese...

Regional futures are not relics of the past. They are political projects, made through voice, memory and choice. Farooq & @suyashjolly.bsky.social show in their new @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social paper why studying escape from #development traps matters as much as explaining lock-in. doi.org/10.1080/2168...

Regional #decline does not happen with a bang, but with the lost pharmacy, the closed school, the abandoned bus line. While #development policy is too often dazzled by tech clusters, Varavallo, Barbera & @riccardodiclemente.com show how basic services matter. doi.org/10.1016/j.se...

A true #CircularEconomy cannot be built by decree. It requires rules that bite and local #trust. A new European Economic Review article by @dbuyukyazici.bsky.social, Brossard & @ronboschma.bsky.social reveals that regional #institutions form the base of a sustainable future. doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...

#Italy's territorial divide goes well beyond the traditional North/South gap. The eight territorial types mapped by Pasquale Pavone in Social Indicators Research show that #productivity is no northern monopoly and economic fragility no southern inheritance. doi.org/10.1007/s112...

#Industrial policy has returned in fine clothes: green missions, digital transitions. However, as I argue in SERIEs, whether it works will not depend on money alone. A successful policy requires effective institutions. Otherwise, grand ambitions will fail. doi.org/10.1007/s132...