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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
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Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and former head of its Department of Geography and Environment (2006-2009). .. more

Economics 56%
Political science 32%
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 9h
British #Universities fashion themselves as global engines of excellence. However, as Chaytor and Tomaney argue in
@politicalquarterly.bsky.social, locally, they increasingly look like extractive #industries: educating young people for jobs that exist elsewhere.
doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 3d
“Devolve, devolve, devolve.” Devolution is less a lifeline than a psychological permission slip.
As Hermelin shows in her new Planning Practice & Research paper, with #devolution, #Sweden’s outposts are turning from service desks to brokers by necessity, not wealth.
doi.org/10.1080/0269...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 4d
Drop the #Christmas socks. The real crisis isn't your gift list; it's the #DevelopmentTrap. Balland & @ronboschma.bsky.social show in @regionalstudies.bsky.social how regions lacking #complexity become haunted by their own history. Hard work won't save them—innovation will. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 4d
Abbiamo trattato il #declino come assistenza anziché #sviluppo, pagando il solo esodo ai giovani migliori.
Su Avvenire con Pietro Saccò spiego perché —come scritto nel mio libro di Donzelli, nato dall'energia di Filippo Barbera— serve un cambio di rotta.
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«Vi spiego perché i luoghi che non contano hanno smesso di aspettare»
L'economista Andrés Rodríguez-Pose: «Nelle nostre metropoli, i super-ricchi e i precari spesso votano allo stesso modo, sostenendo lo status quo»
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 5d
And help make Leiboyu a star scientist in the process! 😉
neillee.bsky.social Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social · 5d
New paper:

Star scientists heavily clustered in a few cities

Please read and cite our paper and reinforce this concentration 👍
rodriguez-pose.bsky.social Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 5d
Did you know 12% of the world’s top #researchers cluster in just four #cities? In our brand new paper (with Xiang & @neillee.bsky.social) in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, the “flat world” is a gated archipelago. The #GlobalSouth remains excluded.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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neillee.bsky.social
Neil Lee @neillee.bsky.social · 5d
New paper:

Star scientists heavily clustered in a few cities

Please read and cite our paper and reinforce this concentration 👍

Reposted by Neil Lee

rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 5d
Did you know 12% of the world’s top #researchers cluster in just four #cities? In our brand new paper (with Xiang & @neillee.bsky.social) in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, the “flat world” is a gated archipelago. The #GlobalSouth remains excluded.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Scientific excellence is clustering ever more tightly in a few ‘superstar’ cities. Four—New York, Boston, London and the San Francisco Bay Area—now host 12% of the world's top scientists. In contrast....
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 6d
The paradox of the #SEZ: its greatest strength—its distinctness—is frequently its fatal flaw.
As Kimura (@oecdlocal.bsky.social) argues, to be transformative rather than an expensive vanity, zones must shed their insularity and link fortunes to the broader regional economy.
doi.org/10.1787/4373...

Reposted by Diane Coyle

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 7d
Economic decline doesn’t always lead to #populism. The local political climate acts as a filter.
As Deppisch & @andreasklaerner.bsky.social argue in @regionalstudies.bsky.social, in some rural areas discontent leads to civic engagement. In others, it is a vehicle for revenge.
doi.org/10.1080/0034...

Reposted by Niamh Moore‐Cherry, Dieter F. Kogler

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 8d
In #Ireland, the “Key #Town” is often presented in policy as a uniform strategic unit. Yet, new research by Ji, @niamhmcherry.bsky.social & @dfkogler.bsky.social in Geoforum uses PCA to reveal a complex typology of urban life that defies tidy, one-size-fits-all narratives. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 9d
Can all places be saved? To save a shrinking #town or manage its decline?
In @cjres.bsky.social, Dijkstra warns against fighting history, while Pike, Mackinnon, Tomaney & Velthuis claim that no prosperous #city is an island.
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Reposted by Markus Heße

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 10d
Brussels’ volte-face on #petrol engines— @financialtimes.com (www.ft.com/content/0e16...) —show our lack of capacity to implement #carbon neutrality.
Bartalucci & I argue in @cjres.bsky.social that the costs of #green compliance begin to chafe against democratic patience.
doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 11d
Diagnosing the 'fallen-below' can be an elegant exercise; organising them is harder.
Martin Jones warns in @dialogueshg.bsky.social against a liveability politics that curdles into cosy localism. We need a strategy for scaling —not just measuring— economic despair. doi.org/10.1177/2043...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 12d
For #green #innovation to happen, distance from the capital can be a catalyst. As Qua, Riandita & Solheim show in Business Strategy and the Environment, isolation breeds a need for global outreach that is a lifeline for all types of innovation. doi.org/10.1002/bse....

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 13d
The long quarrel over #inequality usually boils down to two weak orthodoxies: let the winners win or redistribute until it stops.
Wang, Gong & Mao reveal in @economyandspace.bsky.social, a third, #China way: equality through state entrepreneurialism & resource-sharing.
doi.org/10.1177/0308...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 14d
There is a difference between missing the train and being tied to the tracks. In the Journal of Economic Geography, Phelps, Atienza & @mariasloyola.bsky.social outline "sacrificed" regions, where harm is a function of the sytem, not an accident of the invisible hand.
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