Abstract
The title of this contribution has been deliberately chosen. I am not speaking of the state of the art in regional economics, but only of a state of an art, implying that multiple analysis frameworks may co-exist in the same discipline. Regional economics and its sister discipline regional science has a remarkable history in that it combines elements from economics and geography from an analytical (often deductive) rather than descriptive perspective (Boyce et al., 1991; Nijkamp, 1990; Paelinck and Nijkamp, 1982). As a consequence, it has been able to develop a powerful set of theoretically based analysis instruments for the explanation of the structure and evolution of the space-economy. Its twin character has also caused a methodological weakness, since no unambiguous methodology has been developed (nor could be developed) that was able to encapsulate the myriads of multi-disciplinary phenomena (including their underlying backgrounds and effects) in a complex, multi-faceted and dynamic spaceeconomy. Any attempt to offer a refreshing and practical contribution to the ongoing debate on methodological issues in regional economics (and also in regional science) has to be welcomed. Eight years after the publication of a major and very well received ‘opus’ in regional economics, namely the
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