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Localised waste reduction networks, global destruction networks and the circular economy Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 John R Bryson, Andrew Herod, Jennifer Johns, Vida Vanchan
Creating a circular economy (CE) is considered central to solving problems like climate change and resource depletion. In this context, the concept of global destruction networks was developed to better theorise using waste in new production. However, CE advocates also seek to avoid waste production by extending products’ lives. These efforts occur within what we term waste reduction networks. Examining
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How can a regional innovation system meet circular economy challenges? Conceptualization and empirical insights from Germany Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Martina Fromhold-Eisebith
Promoting the circular economy (CE) increasingly draws on regional approaches. But in particular the potentially supportive role of regionally provided innovations requires more exploration. This paper suggests an expanded categorization of innovation demands for the regional CE and integrates them into an enriched conceptualization of the challenge-oriented regional innovation system (CORIS). How
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Amsterdam’s circular economy at a world-ecological crossroads: postcapitalist degrowth or the next regime of capital accumulation? Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Matthew Thompson, Charlotte Cator, David Beel, Ian Rees Jones, Martin Jones, Kevin Morgan
This article conceptualises the circular economy as a space of immaterial, as well as material, metabolic flows mediated by capitalism and planetary urbanisation. World-ecology provides us with the critical lens to view the circular economy as part of an emergent regime of accumulation that may supersede neoliberalism. However, if each regime entails new frontier zones for appropriating cheap natures
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Towards a Territorial and Political Ecology of “circular bioeconomy”: a 30-year review of metabolism studies Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Simon Joxe, Jean-Baptiste Bahers
In the context of the increasingly present policies of circular economy and the emergence of “Circular Bioeconomy” (CB), this article presents the results of a literature review on the sociometabolic research of biomasses. Six schools of thought are identified and distinguished according to their authors, their conceptions of metabolism, methodologies and social and spatial dimensions. Based on this
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Responsibility fixes: patching up circular economy value chains Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Anna Barford, Saffy Rose Ahmad
Recycled plastics value chains are being collaboratively constructed amid calls for greater responsibility of the corporates driving today’s plastic waste crisis. The resulting ‘responsibility fix’ bolts new arrangements onto linear production processes, offering a mechanism to push linear processes towards circularity, while starting to patch up some of the social and economic injustices associated
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Strategies for circular economy in the Nordics: a comparative analysis of directionality Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Mari Wardeberg, Henrik Brynthe Lund, Jens Hanson, Riina Kärki, Linda Rekosuo, Anna Tenhuen-Lunkka, Sarianna Palola
In this paper we mobilize sustainability transitions literature to explore directionality for circular economy (CE) transitions, by drawing on and adapting a framework for analysing roadmaps to empirically investigate CE strategies. Specifically, this paper explores circular economy CE strategy documents in the Nordics, the commonalities and differences between them and to what extent they provide
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Exploring circular economy transition pathways: a roadmap analysis of 15 Canadian local governments Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Juste Rajaonson, Chedrak Chembessi
This paper explores how 15 Canadian local governments of various sizes and contexts are transitioning to a circular economy by analysing their roadmap currently in development. It provides qualitative insights into how physical, socioeconomic and institutional factors are influencing the content of roadmaps, along with their similarities and differences. Drawing from the literature on the geography
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The limits of waste as a resource: a critique and a proposition towards a new scalar imagination for the circular economy model Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Stylianos Zavos, Olli Pyyhtinen
In the article, we critically confront the idea of waste-to-resource at the heart of the circular economy. We discuss some of the blind spots and shortcomings of three circular economy principles: designing out waste, emulating natural systems and decoupling economic growth from resource use. We suggest that their limitations are intimately connected to a scalar reasoning ruled by strict, disjunctive
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The weed, asbestos pipe and disposable tree: unmuting multispecies Flemish and Norwegian circular site stories for diverse circular economies Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Wendy Wuyts
This study explores diverse circular economies and methods of multispecies ethnography in Vorselaar, Belgium and Røros, Norway, to identify care-full justice in small-scale places and to challenge traditional anthropocentric and capitalocentric models. This study unearths circular site stories in Vorselaar’s community-driven sustainability practices and Røros’s integration of cultural heritage in its
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What does it mean to be ‘left behind?’ Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Ann M Eisenberg
This comment critiques the idea of geographic regions being “left behind.” It argues that the term frames the regions in question as passive experiencers of natural phenomena, in turn obfuscating the structural forces that have shaped those regions and local populations’ efforts to pursue better living conditions. The comment draws on three examples from the rural United States to illustrate how the
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Learning from the best: how regional knowledge stimulates circular economy transition at company level Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Rahel Meili, Tobias Stucki, Ingrid Kissling-Näf
This paper investigates whether, and what kind of, regional knowledge has a stimulating effect on circular economy (CE) innovation by companies. We thus add to the literature on regional knowledge spillovers, which has rarely focussed explicitly on the CE. For the empirical study, we create econometric regressions based on a representative dataset with extensive information on the CE activities of
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Towards a territorialisation of the circular economy: the proximity of stakeholders and resources matters Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Chedrak Chembessi, Sébastien Bourdin, André Torre
This article explores the territorialisation of the circular economy (CE) and analyses how the geographical and organised proximities of stakeholders facilitate the mobilisation of local resources for CE projects. It focuses on two local CE initiatives in Quebec (Canada) and France, for which 70 semi-structured interviews were conducted. The results highlight the importance of tangible and intangible
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Gathering round Big Tech: How the market for acquisitions concentrates the digital sector Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Carolin Ioramashvili, Maryann Feldman, Frederick Guy, Simona Iammarino
Small businesses within the digital sector are spread across the USA. However, a significant number of promising small businesses concentrate in major technology hubs, either initially or through relocation. This phenomenon can be attributed to the influential role played by localized markets for financing and acquisition, which is, in turn, driven by the dominant market positions held by major digital
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Geographies of discontent: measuring and understanding the feeling of abandonment in the Chilean region of Valparaiso (2019–2021) Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Pedro Fierro, Ignacio Aravena-Gonzalez, Patricio Aroca, Francisco Rowe
Political discontent, frequently mirrored in voting patterns, extends beyond ballot votes. By focusing on Valparaiso, Chile, we introduce a more comprehensive measure, external political efficacy (EPE), capturing a sense of abandonment and gauging public sentiment towards the political system’s responsiveness to their needs. Our analysis addresses individual and area-level factors underpinning individual
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The role of place in the development of a circular economy: a critical analysis of potential for social redistribution in Hull, UK Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Pauline Deutz, Andrew E G Jonas, Aodhan Newsholme, Małgorzata Pusz, Heather A Rogers, Julia Affolderbach, Rupert J Baumgartner, Tomás B Ramos
This paper examines the role of place in the local development of a circular economy and the potential for consequent social redistribution. Based on a case study of public, private and third-sector approaches to a circular economy in Hull, an industrial city in the northeast of England, it offers a critical analysis of the geographic distribution of socio-economic benefits from local circular economy
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Left-behind places in central and eastern Europe—labour productivity aspect Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Pawel Dobrzanski, Sebastian Bobowski, Karenjit Clare
In the 21st century, there have already been a series of economic downturns, particularly the Subprime Crisis 2007–2009 and the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. All those events triggered changes in productivity, economic performance and structure. The main objective of this study is to identify the regions left behind in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and to analyse the structural and
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Persistently poor, left-behind and chronically disconnected Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Kenan Fikri
This article explores the extent to which persistent poverty areas represent a compelling sub-category of left-behind areas. It asks why places collectively tend to have a much harder time climbing out of poverty than people do individually, and it explores three ways in which places struggling with persistent poverty exhibit disconnection from the broader economy: commuting patterns, social networks
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Territorial identity and left-behind places: evidence from the central Italian Apennines from a time perspective Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Gabriele Morettini, Fabiano Compagnucci
This paper aims to link the issue of left-behind places with spatial inequalities and demonstrate how, in these places, different territorial identities have contributed to responding to external shocks. By applying principal component and cluster analyses to a set of Italian mountain municipalities, we identified different typologies of these left-behind places as of the early 1950s and examined how
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Three types of income inequality: a comparison of left behind places and more developed regions in the EU Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Alessandra Faggian, Alessandra Michelangeli, Kateryna Tkach
Despite the growing interest in subjective inequality, little is known about the relation between this and more objective measures of inequality, especially in the light of regional disparities. This study focuses on the patterns of actual income inequality and two subjective measures in NUTS 2 EU regions. By accounting for multiple indicators of economic (under)performance, we show that actual inequality
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Coastal towns as ‘left-behind places’: economy, environment and planning Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Stefania Fiorentino, Franziska Sielker, John Tomaney
Many coastal towns in England face a unique set of overlapping challenges: a longstanding socio-economic stagnation and environmental threats coming from the physical location. This paper examines coastal communities in the context of the left-behind debate. The consequences of de-industrialisation and failures in public policies recall other left-behind geographies. We look at a selection of case
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Are rural firms left behind? Firm location and perceived job attractiveness of high-skilled workers Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Sabrina Jeworrek, Matthias Brachert
We conduct a discrete choice experiment to investigate how the location of a firm in a rural or urban region affects the perceived job attractiveness for university students and graduates and, therewith, contributes to the rural–urban divide. We characterize the attractiveness of a location based on several dimensions (social life, public infrastructure and connectivity) and vary job design and contractual
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High-tech development for “left behind” places: lessons-learnt from the Ruhr cybersecurity ecosystem Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Anna Butzin, Franz Flögel
Unlike development strategies for prosperous regions and their prioritisation of high-tech sectors, alternative strategies for left behind places are suggested that shift to foundational economies, community-based social innovation and well-being. While we support this emphasis, we see a tendency to neglect the role of change agents engaged with research and teaching in high-tech domains for initiating
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Building distributive populism: basic income and political alternatives to ethno-nationalism Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Marc Doussard
Left-behind places face linked economic and political problems that must be resolved jointly. This paper examines the potential contribution of basic income programs to that goal. Consisting of regular, no-strings-attached payments to citizens, basic income programs ensure resources and stability for poor and economically precarious households who comprise a significant share of left-behind places’
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Schumpeter’s Gesetz and Gestalt in space: exploring evolutionary economic geographies of money and finance Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 David Bieri
This paper argues that money and finance are not sufficiently integrated into the research agenda of evolutionary economic geography (EEG). I identify two dimensions of Joseph Schumpeter’s vision of the inherent instability of capitalism as promising for the EEG research agenda: First, the ‘law’ (Gesetz) of a disequilibrating role of credit creation and innovations in financial relations reveals the
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Obstacles to local cooperation in fragmented, left-behind economies: an integrated framework Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni
Fostering cooperation among local stakeholders is a core aim of place-based policies, and it can generate economic benefits and help restore a sense of agency in left-behind communities. However, relatively little is known about how to induce local cooperation in low-trust, institutionally weak areas. This article develops an integrated theoretical framework to help diagnose the precise obstacles to
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Relational hinterlands in the USA have become disconnected from major global centres Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Maximilian Buchholz, Harald Bathelt
Research identifies strong concentrations of economic activity in dynamic, major city regions, whereas shifts in economic linkages between these and smaller, less-advantaged city regions have been less investigated. Using data on firms’ investment/disinvestment decisions between 1993 and 2017, we show that the majority of ‘relational hinterlands’ (smaller, non-contiguous city regions with at least
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Left behind places in Brazil: the dynamics of regional inequalities and public policies in the early 21st century Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Humberto Martins
This article aims to discuss left behind places in Brazil in the early 21st century. We conceptually debate the left behind places’ approach in dialogue with other contemporary theoretical perspectives. To evaluate regional inequalities in Brazil, we used the coefficient of variation, calculated at two different scales from 2002 to 2019 for GDP per capita, also considering social indicators. The results
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Getting left behind? The localised consequences of exclusion from the credit market for UK SMEs Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Marc Cowling, Ross Brown, Weixi Liu, Augusto Rocha
Recent research has identified a key subset of the business population that comprises firms who had sought external finance but subsequently withdrew from the credit market completely despite still requiring finance. Utilising the UK’s Longitudinal Small Business Survey between 2015 and 2020, we identify the consequences in terms of lost jobs and sales of these small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
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Can infrastructure help ‘left behind’ places ‘catch up?’ Theorizing the role of built infrastructure in regional development Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Grete Gansauer, Julia H Haggerty, Kristin K Smith, Mark N Haggerty, Kelli F Roemer
The application of infrastructure as a regional development tool in resource peripheries has received little direct inquiry in both policy and scholarly debates. This article synthesizes theoretical and empirical directions across economic geography, regional studies and critical infrastructure studies to form a research agenda for investigating the role of built infrastructure in the development of
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Who gets left behind by left behind places? Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Dylan S Connor,Aleksander K Berg,Tom Kemeny,Peter J Kedron
We document that children growing up in places left behind by today's economy experience lower levels of social mobility as adults. Using a longitudinal database that tracks over 20,000 places in the USA from 1980 to 2018, we identify two kinds of left behind places: the 'long-term left behind' that have struggled over long periods of history; and 'recently left-behind' places where conditions have
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Capabilities, institutions and regional economic development: a proposed synthesis Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Koen Frenken, Frank Neffke, Alje van Dam
The capability framework in evolutionary economic geography views regional economic development as a process of related diversification through the acquisition of capabilities that render a regional economy more complex. Using this framework, we synthesize seven theoretical notions that hitherto remained rather disconnected: relatedness, complementarity, variety, complexity, diversification, agents
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Advancing spatial ontology in evolutionary economic geography Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Han Chu, Robert Hassink
Although evolutionary economic geography has been popular in economic geography, it has also been criticized for, among others, a weak geographical conceptualization, which has become evident, particularly in empirical research on related and unrelated variety. Therefore, this paper advances a spatial ontology, which is embedded in critical realism and social constructivism, and will empower evolutionary
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Surveillance and the power of platforms Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 David Lyon
It is a truism that the power of platform companies rests, among other things, on their capacity to engage in surveillance. Their existence depends on the acquisition and analysis of data, which fuels their movement, that is steered by algorithms. Surveillance capitalism, usually instantiated in the activities of platform companies, expanded even more markedly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Platforms
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Towards an evolutionary economic geography research agenda to study migration and innovation Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-01 Andrea Morrison
Different strands of literature have provided important insights into the economic effects of high-skilled migration. Evolutionary economic approaches have provided robust evidence and theories to explain how innovation unfolds in regions. However, with few exceptions they have been silent with regard to the role of migration in this process. This paper, while building on the insights of the above
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Geographical evolutionary political economy: linking local evolution with uneven and combined development Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Jürgen Essletzbichler, Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle, Lena Gerdes, Hans-Peter Wieland, Christian Dorninger
This contribution argues that evolutionary economic geography needs to widen its conceptual apparatus in order to engage with the grand challenges of our times. Instead of understanding evolution as a gradual, path-dependent and geographically localized process, the current challenges result from various global political-economic transformations requiring an understanding of evolution as a outcome
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When local business faded away: the uneven impact of Airbnb on the geography of economic activities Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Alberto Hidalgo, Massimo Riccaboni, Francisco J Velazquez
This paper investigates the unequal effect of Airbnb on the spatial organisation of economic activity in Madrid, Spain. Using establishment-level data from Madrid City Council and consumer-facing information from this short-term rental company, we find that Airbnb reshapes the urban space by encouraging tourist-oriented businesses, defined as businesses where tourists spend more than locals, at the
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Digitalisation of Indian smart cities: post-Covid-19 approaches to data, recognition and health monitoring Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Sneha Krishnan
There is a proliferation of digitalisation of urban and health services in India under the Smart City and Digital Health missions, respectively. This study brings digital and feminist geographies together to understand the role of technologies in urban areas, particularly in health service delivery and how healthcare workers mediate these health platforms. Using a case study of Varanasi city in Uttar
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Towards ‘bogus employment?’ The contradictory outcomes of ride-hailing regulation in Berlin, Lisbon and Paris Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Valentin Niebler, Giorgio Pirina, Michelangelo Secchi, Franco Tomassoni
The issue of employment classification has been central in the politics around the platform economy. Crucial has been the phenomenon of ‘bogus self-employment’, whereby workers in de facto dependent employment relationships conduct services as independent contractors. Legislators around the world have aimed to tackle this issue by obliging platforms to classify their workers as employees. Based on
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Platforms, blockchains and the challenges of decentralization Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Matthew Zook
This commentary explores the feasibility of blockchain technologies (and cryptocurrencies) in contesting the power of centralized, corporate platforms. While proponents of blockchain and cryptocurrencies regularly proclaim their power to decentralize and counter corporate power, I am much more constrained in my assessment and note the significant challenges facing open blockchain approaches in competing
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COVID Keynesianism: locating inequality in the Anglo-American crisis response Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Johnna Montgomerie
COVID Keynesianism evaluates the USA and UK’s economic response to the COVID-19 pandemic and compares it to the previous iterations of the Anglo-American policy response template. The analysis details the morbid character of neoliberal state intervention by tracing the distributional routes of monetary and fiscal measures into global corporations and across the domestic economy. The comparative findings
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Crisis and the welfare state: the role of public employment services for job placement and the Danish flexicurity system during COVID-19 Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Torben Dall Schmidt, Timo Mitze
Denmark is a Nordic welfare state with local government autonomy in public service provision related to workfare policies. We use a policy experiment that re-opened on-site public employment services after the first COVID-19 lockdown in a spatially staggered manner to provide evidence on the effect of public employment services on job placement during a crisis. Early re-opening of on-site public employment
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Delivering difference: ‘Unbelonging’ among US platform parcel delivery workers Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Hannah Johnston, Yana Mommadova, Steven Vallas, Juliet Schor
This paper explores a neglected aspect of platform work: how the spatial mobility that app-based couriers must perform requires them to violate taken-for-granted assumptions that define who belongs where. By assigning tasks during atypical hours and requiring gig workers to use their personal clothing, tools and vehicles, platforms strip delivery workers of signifiers that legitimate their presence
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Masking the Strangulation of Opposition Parties as Pandemic Response: Austerity Measures Targeting the Local Level in Hungary Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Daniel Kovarek, Gábor Dobos
While a large literature studies the various tools of autocratic survival, targeting opposition actors with austerity measures in electoral autocracies is hitherto understudied. This paper argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has provided a rare opportunity for Hungary’s Fidesz party to disarm opposition parties via cutting off resources of municipalities led by opposition mayors and eliminating any remnants
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COVID-19 vaccines: a geographic, social and policy view of vaccination efforts in Ontario, Canada Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Isaac I Bogoch, Sheliza Halani
In recent months, more studies are emerging regarding how various nations and regions fared during the initial two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada is cited as an example of a country that had performed reasonably well versus other countries with comparable infrastructures and health care systems (Razek et al., 2022). The reason is largely attributed to a combination of several public health
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The economic resilience of a city: the effect of relatedness on the survival of amenity shops during the COVID-19 pandemic Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Bogang Jun, C Jara-Figueroa, Donghyeon Yu
Amenity clusters consisting of coffee shops, restaurants and other small businesses improve urban life and are a source of employment for city dwellers. Although most small business clusters were hit hard by restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, some were able to adapt. What determines the economic resilience of amenity clusters? Using store-location data for Seoul from 2016 to 2021, we
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The future of the corporate office? Emerging trends in the post-Covid city Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Stefania Fiorentino, Nicola Livingstone, Pat McAllister, Howard Cooke
Part of an ongoing longitudinal study, this article provides evidence on the emerging impacts of Covid-19 on the demand for, configuration and role of offices in cities, drawing on primary data from semi-structured interviews with UK-based corporate real estate managers. The research is grounded on a ‘theory of change’ framework combining real estate, institutional economics and economic geography
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Inside out: human mobility big data show how COVID-19 changed the urban network structure in the Seoul Metropolitan Area Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Young-Long Kim, Bogang Jun
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed human mobility patterns in cities. Lockdowns, social distancing and flexible working hours have restructured pre-existing dynamics between two opposing forces in major cities: centripetal and centrifugal. To scrutinise the new dynamics, human mobility in the Seoul Metropolitan Area in early 2020 was investigated using big data collected from cell phone
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Challenging austerity under the COVID-19 state Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Mildred E Warner, Paige M Kelly, Xue Zhang
The COVID-19 pandemic represented a short-term shift in US social policy. Under the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the federal government prioritised households by raising the floor for child support and unemployment benefits, and restoring fiscal federalism by providing increased funds to state and local governments. Our 2021 nationwide survey finds local governments with more
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The manufactured crisis of COVID-Keynesianism in Britain, Germany and the USA Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 James D G Wood, Valentina Ausserladscheider, Matthew Sparkes
Economic policymaking shifted away from neoliberal ideals towards ‘crisis’ Keynesianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use a comparative process tracing approach to examine how political and economic actors in Britain, Germany and the USA attempt to legitimise a potential return to neoliberalism to voters. We show that pro-neoliberal actors discursively construct a ‘crisis’ of COVID-Keynesianism
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Furloughing and COVID-19: assessing regulatory reform of the state Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 David A Spencer, Mark Stuart, Chris Forde, Christopher J McLachlan
This article assesses regulatory reform of the state in the context of the move to furloughing in the UK. It establishes that furloughing was a successful response to the COVID-19 crisis, partly because it challenged the traditional UK crisis response of non-state intervention in the labour market. Furloughing prevented higher unemployment and enabled a swifter recovery. The article also identifies
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Cities, innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystems: assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson
A potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the nature, rates and spatial configuration of innovation may change within and across cities. To examine these potential changes, this article draws on findings from data gathered through interviews, surveys and secondary data over two time periods: prior to the pandemic and during the fallout from the pandemic. The article utilises the concept of
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Covid-19 and heterogeneous restrictions: possible consequences for EU cities Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Matteo Migheli
Covid-19 has obliged public authorities to enact several restrictions to citizens’ everyday life. Some of them were or will be transitory, while others may result in long-term changes in production organisation. The analysis offered in this paper links the restrictions to the level of economic freedom of the EU members. The aim is to understand whether these two aspects were related, and the potential
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Building back before: fiscal and monetary support for the economy in Britain amid the COVID-19 crisis Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Craig Berry, Daniel Bailey, David Beel, Nick O’Donovan
This paper explores the local impact of various forms of fiscal and monetary support for UK-based companies in the context of disruption caused by COVID-19 and associated public health restrictions, including support for household incomes (and therefore private consumption) via the ‘furlough’ scheme, the Covid Corporate Financing Facility and various national and local business support schemes. It
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Urban-regional disparities in mental health signals in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study via Twitter data and machine learning models Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Siqin Wang, Mengxi Zhang, Xiao Huang, Tao Hu, Zhenlong Li, Qian Chayn Sun, Yan Liu
This study establishes a novel empirical framework using machine learning techniques to measure the urban-regional disparity of the public’s mental health signals in Australia during the pandemic, and to examine the interrelationships amongst mental health, demographic and socioeconomic profiles of neighbourhoods, health risks and healthcare access. Our results show that the public’s mental health
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Impacts and implications for the post-COVID city: the case of Toronto Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Shauna Brail, Mark Kleinman
Since the onset of COVID-19, scholars have questioned whether the pandemic will alter the fundamentals propelling the growth of global cities. Using a case study of Toronto, the paper examines and analyses changes impacting the city because of the pandemic, with a focus on work, mobility and housing. In assessing pandemic-related disruption, it outlines the experiences of the early phases of recovery
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Mobility, environment and inequalities in the post-COVID city Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, Albert Gragera
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about enormous disruption in mobility in cities. We review and analyse the evidence generated since the advent of the crisis, paying special attention to travel behaviour changes and how they are hampering the achievement of sustainability goals. Modal shifts to more individual modes of transport, with regained interest in car usage, combined with the financial distress
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The network effect of deglobalisation on European regions Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Raffaele Giammetti,Luca Papi,Désirée Teobaldelli,Davide Ticchi
Abstract This paper investigates the effects of a retreat from global economic integration on the European regional production network for the period 2000–2010. We find that production has become increasingly fragmented, although the degree of heterogeneity across regions is substantial. This heterogeneity is also present in the direct and indirect effects of three different deglobalisation scenarios
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Planning for resilient central-city shopping districts in the post-Covid era: an explanatory case study of the Hoddle Grid in Melbourne Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Fujie Rao,Sun Sheng Han,Ran Pan
Abstract This research explores how central-city shopping districts could be transformed to support a post-Covid lifestyle, where people re-embrace community, local streets and walking while relying more on online shopping. By reviewing metropolitan/city development plans since the 1980s and mapping changes of retail provisions, urban environment and pedestrian movements in Melbourne’s Hoddle Grid
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Localization of global networks: new mandates for MNEs in Toronto’s innovation economy Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 David A Wolfe,Richard J DiFrancesco,Steven C Denney
Abstract The current wave of technological transformation is altering dynamics between the global and local scales. This transformation affects the dynamic linkages between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the host economies in which they invest. This article examines how MNEs in leading technology sectors are re-evaluating their relationship to Toronto’s innovation economy. It employs elements
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The global division of labour as enduring archipelago: thinking through the spatiality of ‘globalisation in reverse’ Camb. J. Reg. Econ. Soc. (IF 5.6) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Michiel van Meeteren,Jana Kleibert
Abstract Contemporary globalisation faces several challenges, for instance related to climate change, technological disruption and shifting geopolitics, that have repercussions for the organisation of value chains and the global division of labour. Analysing the long-term geographies of globalisation we observe how successive reconfigurations of ‘new’ and ‘newer’ global divisions of labour share an