The article is made about the specialised literature regarding integration, cohesion, convergence and main theories attempting to provide answers to a general and persistent question at European level: why some regions/areas develop faster than the others? The answers are given preponderantly by...

This paper describes a two-sector demo-economic model (agricultural and non-agricultural sectors) applied to Europe and spanning the period from the neolithic agricultural revolution to the Industrial Revolution. The model describes the "incessant contest" between population growth and food...