Europe’s territorial divides aren’t fading; they’re deepening. A new paper by Maria Tsapia, Juha Halme & me shows how cumulative causation traps lagging regions in structural disadvantage. #rauhut_research #nordicersa.bsky.social
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The geography of exclusion: cumulative causation and the persistence of lagging regions
This paper examines why regional disparities persist across Europe despite decades of cohesion-oriented policy intervention. Drawing on cumulative causation theory and New Economic Geography, it ar...