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...simple mathematics and thereby give apparent verisimilitude to a model that has little basis in reality but has an academic core of a sort. In a real sense the whole thing smacks of the scholastic disputes that occurred in the 17th century regarding the earth going round the sun. By 1929 the economics profession had consolidated this idea as its core basis and could not...

...simple or necessary correspondence between types of region and types of regionalism. But clearly-demarcated and long-established regions are a more likely basis for strong regionalist or nationalist movements, while top-down regionalisation often results in regions with little popular identity or awareness of the region by its own inhabitants. Pre-existing regional...