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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
@rodriguez-pose.bsky.social
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Princesa de Asturias Chair & Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. Past President Regional Science Association International. Editor, Economic Geography.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science and former head of its Department of Geography and Environment (2006-2009). .. more

Economics 56%
Political science 32%
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 1d
Valentine’s Day insists #love can be bought. But increasingly, our roses are for… no one. In @euractiv.com, Møller-Nielsen points to structural #loneliness. Chiara Burlina & I argue it has consequences beyond the personal and social. www.euractiv.com/news/europes...
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 2d
True cohesion is less about shifting resources between places and more about expanding what individuals can actually do within them.
Artelaris & Mavrommatis argue in European Planning Studies for a "people-centric" turn in territorial #Cohesion Policy.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 3d
The 2008 crash left scars that refuse to fade. In JEMS, Avola, Piccitto & Vegetti reveal that while native #employment proved remarkably elastic, male #migrants faced a seven-point slump that has become a permanent feature of the post-crisis era.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 5d
Maybe industrial policy isn’t picking winners but using the right mechanisms to innovate.
Zhuoying You & I show in @spatialeconomic.bsky.social that #AI adoption & #robots raise #innovation, especially in less innovative places and improve the returns of R&D spendomg.
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AI and robotics as drivers of China’s urban innovation
Few studies have examined the economic consequences of deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in less-developed cities, where policies have often failed. To address this gap, we analys...
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 8d
We have long feared #AI as a job-destroyer, yet it may drive #innovation and increase the returns of R&D. As Zhuoying You & I argue in our new @spatialeconomic.bsky.social paper, AI & #robotics make scarce resources deliver in places where investment has disappointed.
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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 9d
Special Economic Zones don’t fail loudly. They fade quietly.
#SEZs in #Africa amplify existing strengths—skills, infrastructure—while exposing weaknesses. The can raise export diversification but slowly, with effects only appearing after a decade or so. doi.org/10.1080/0885...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 10d
It is a funny feeling to find one’s work translated so precisely by a machine. My friend Duarte Rodrigues used #AI to craft a banner for my new LSEPPR paper. It captures the very soul of the debate. The algorithm, it seems, has a keener eye for nuance than I dared imagine. doi.org/10.31389/lse...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 11d
Can #Europe deliver on the #green #transition or just legislate it?
A new Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Policy Reform, guest-edited by Sandu, @mariatsouri.bsky.social & me invites answers.
Abstracts by 30 March 2026 to a.sandu@lse.ac.uk
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 12d
Tuesday 10 February at LSE: Lewis Dijkstra will deconstruct the quiet rewriting of the global #urban story. By 2100, the #rural may be little more than a memory.
Join us at the @CanadaBlanchLSE to see how new UN data clarifies our urban destiny.
www.lse.ac.uk/canada-blanc...

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Spatial Economic Analysis @spatialeconomic.bsky.social · 13d
A new SEA paper, “Why size really doesn’t matter: from megacity myths to place-sensitive prosperity” by @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social, challenges the idea that bigger cities are always more successful.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 13d
#EU #CohesionPolicy hasn’t failed. It has been mis-sold. Framed as compensation rather than #investment, it lost legitimacy, despite evidence of #growth and spillovers.
My new LSEPPR paper shows that a policy of development dressed up as charity struggles.
doi.org/10.31389/lse...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 14d
“Build, baby, build” meets inequality. As Julie Weil notes in @washingtonpost.com, supply alone may not fix #affordability. Our @urbanstudiesjournal.com paper warned why: #inequality, not #zoning, does the damage.
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Are YIMBYs winning the housing wars? Not so fast, these people say.
Though the “build more” movement is chalking up wins, supply skeptics contend housing affordability calls for government policies, not just market forces.
www.washingtonpost.com