Los estudios sobre desarrollo económico e historia económica se han ocupado durante mucho tiempo de las relaciones entre las fuerzas transparentes y supuestamente anónimas de los mercados, reglas y burocracias así como de la pertenencia a grupos tales como comunidades locales, asociaciones o...

This special issue contains papers by both economists and geographers on agglomeration and growth. In this introduction, we first provide a brief sketch of recent developments in the interaction between economists and geographers. We then propose some contextual background to make it easier for...

Research on the institutional foundations of economic development emphasizes either rulebound systems of exchange or informal bonds between individuals and within small groups. This corresponds to a classical division in social science, between the forces of society and those of community. This...

Contemporary social science remains quite divided about the type of coordination that allows some groups of agents to carry out successful economic development and which distinguishes them from cases of failure. In some cases, it is said to be traditional or non-market forms of coordination,...

Much of the literature on the impact of institutions on economic development has focused on the tradeoffs between society and community as mutually opposed forms of institutional coordination. On the one hand, sociologists, geographers, and some economists have stressed the positive economic...

Les économies régionales sont des systèmes d’atouts physiques et relationnels, pleins de synergies, ce que renforce l’intensification de la mondialisation. À ce titre, les régions sont des pièces maîtresses du processus de développement, non seulement dans les pays les plus avancés,...