¿Es tan "nueva" la "Nueva Geografía Económica"? Sus aportaciones, sus límites y su relación con las políticas

Abstract

The so-called New Economic Geography (NEG) presently has a very relevant position among the current theoretical approaches that support territorial analysis. Some of its concepts and ideas were well known by geographers and economists some decades ago, but the leaders of this approach have practically ignored their influence. The main contribution of the NEG is the position adopted to analyze territorial trends, searching to build models and to introduce the interrelations between the economic activities and the territory into theoretical approaches similar to those used by the Economic Analysis. The main objective of this paper is to clarify which are the main contributions of the NEG, but also its limits and weaknesses. © EURE.