Since Adam Smith, social and
economic institutions and technology have been considered as
particularly influential in determining the historical patterns of
income growth and distribution among nations. More recently, economists
have also emphasized that industrial sectors grow at different rate.
This phenomenon has been called Structural Change. Regions
within a nation and national economies within the world also grow at
different rates, giving structural change important spatial and
institutional dimensions.
The goal of this conference is to provide a forum for the presentation
and discussion of different approaches to the analysis of
technological, spatial and institutional structural change and explore
their theoretical, empirical, historical, and methodological
implications.
Keynote speakers
•
Costas Azariadis
(Washington University in St. Louis)
•
Raouf Boucekkine
(Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
•
L. Rachel Ngai (London
School of Economics)