SPATIAL APPROACH TO THE THEORY OF REGIONAL ECONOMY
Keywords:
regional economy, spatial approach, economic space, social space, region, institutional economics, relations and processes, goal setting, social and economic development, interdisciplinarityAbstract
The article analyzes stages of spatial approach development in economic theory, the influence of spatial
approach on the theory of regional economy; the necessity of transition from explanation of the essence of
economy as a set of elements, discrete objects to the explanation of its spatial relations, set of actions and
processes space is proved. Conceptual sensibility of approaches to interpret the category of a region in the
Russian regional science and considering spatial aspects of its development in a weak manner is shown in the
article. The essence and content of such categories as economic and social space in respect to the region is
analyzed. The analysis of the structure for economic space of the region with such “phenomenal fields” as
“financial field”, “technologic field”, “professional field” selection is performed. The necessity to consider
spatial aspects at goals setting for strategic development of the region is proved. Approaches to these categories
in a strategic territorial planning and development management of the regions in Russia are given.
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