Innovation, entrepreneurship, knowledge, and human capital are widely acknowledged as key levers of development. Yet what are the sources of these factors, and why do they differ in their endowment across regions? Motivated by a belief that theories of economic development can move beyond the generally accepted explanations of location and the organization of industries and capital, this book establishes a behavioural theory of economic development illustrating that differences in human behaviour across cities and regions are a significant deep-rooted cause of uneven development.
Fusing a range of concepts relating to culture, psychology, human agency, institutions, and power, it proposes that the long-term differentials in economic development between cities and regions, both within and across nations, is strongly connected to the underlying forms of behaviour enacted by humans on an individual and collective basis. Given a world of finite and limited resources, coupled with a rapidly growing population -- especially in cities and urban regions -- human behaviour, and the expectations and preferences upon which it is based, are central to understanding how notions of development may change in coming years. This book provides a novel theory of the role of psychocultural context and human behavioural and institutional frameworks in uneven economic development on a global scale.
Author(s): Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 321
City: Oxford
Cover
A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development: The Uneven Evolution of Cities and Regions
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Behaviour and the Development Problem
1.1 The Motivation and Rationale for the Book
1.2 Behaviour and the Development Problem
1.3 The Fundamentals of Behaviour and Development
1.4 Empirically Testing the Theory
1.5 Modelling and Addressing Behaviour and Uneven Development
Chapter 2: Human Behaviour and the Development of Cities and Regions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Psychocultural Behaviour: Socio-Spatial Culture and Personality Psychology
2.3 Behavioural Intentions and the Institutional Filter
2.4 Human Agency
2.5 The Nature and Source of Power
2.6 Towards a Behavioural Theory of Urban and Regional Development
Chapter 3: The Psychocultural Life of Cities and Regions
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Culture and Development
3.3 The Place-Based Context
3.4 Cultural Analyses of Economic Development
3.5 Psychocultural Life and Development
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Agency, Economic Evolution, and History
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theories of Urban and Regional Economic Evolution
4.3 Human Agency and Economic Development
4.4 Agency and Urban and Regional Ecosystems
4.5 Entrepreneurial Agency, Innovation, and Development
4.6 Urban and Regional Economic Histories and Culture
4.7 Industrial Development and Culture
4.8 Conclusion
Chapter 5: Institutions, Capital, and Network Behaviour
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Institutions, Innovation, and Growth
5.3 Urban and Regional Growth Systems
5.4 Network Behaviour and (Un)equitable Development
5.5 Institutions, Capital, and Networks
5.6 Conclusion: Integrating Theories of Development
Chapter 6: The Co-evolutionof Culture, Psychology, and Institutions
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Measurement Issues for Culture, Personality Psychology, and Institutions
6.3 Existing Measures of Key Constructs
6.4 Relationships between Personality Psychology, Culture, and Institutions
6.5 The Distribution of Psychocultural Values across Europe
6.6 Psychocultural Profiles and Values
6.7 Psychocultural Profiles and Migration
6.8 Conclusion: Psychocultural Patterns and Geographical Differences
Chapter 7: The Nature and Sources of Agency
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Sources of Human Agency
7.3 Measuring Human Agency
7.4 Measuring Human Agency Potential (HAP) across Europ
7.5 Sources of Human Agency Potential (HAP)
7.6 Human Agency: from Potential to Actualization
7.7 Conclusions
Chpater 8: Agency, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Behaviour, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation
8.3 Agency and Entrepreneurship
8.4 Human Agency Potential (HAP), Development, and Innovation
8.5 Human Agency Potential (HAP) and Regional Entrepreneurial Development
8.6 Conclusions
Chapter 9: An Extended Behavioural Model of Economic Development
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Agency and Outcomes
9.3 Extending the Behavioural Model of Urban and Regional Development
9.4 Future Empirical Analysis and Data Requirements
9.5 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 10: Addressing Unevenness
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Behavioural Policies for Economic Development
10.3 Addressing Psychocultural Behaviour
10.4 Agency and Entrepreneurial Behaviour
10.5 Economic Transformation and Renewal
10.6 Network Behaviour and Policy
10.7 Urban and Regional Well-being
10.8 A Summary of Policy Lessons
10.9 Final Remarks
References
Index
