There seem to be two main types of presidential addresses by academics. One type focuses on the person's view of the status of his or her discipline, which I label an epistemological opinion. The second type focuses more on the individual's research interests in the places where his or her...

This paper introduces a collection of short essays on "New Directions in Regional Science" based on commentaries delivered at the 37th annual meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association in Savannah, Georgia, 1998. In response to the idea of crisis in earlier reviews of regional science,...