From Administrative Spatial Units to Local Labour Market Areas

Fabio Sforzi

Chapter Chapter 1 in Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis, 2012, pp 3-21 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The region as the unit of investigation is what distinguishes Regional Economics from other branches of Economics. Edgar M. Hoover, the founder of the Regional Economics, devoted a chapter of his book An Introduction to Regional Economics (Hoover 1971) to the region and its definition.

Keywords: Functional Regionalization; Industrial District; Territorial Unit; Daily Journey; Italian Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-31994-5_1

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