1. THE FRAMEWORK OF REGIONAL SCIENCE: Economic Geography, Spatial Economics and Regional Economics (Regional Science, definition of the region and development, the regional problem, causes of regional inequalities, economic activity and geography, natural resources as a factor of production, the three sectors of production, development of urban agglomerations).
2. THE FRAMEWORK OF REGIONAL SCIENCE: Basic concepts of Regional Science (regional accounts data, gross and net regional product , regional and regional disposable income, GDP per capita, the productivity of the regional economy, level of regional welfare, real and nominal GDP, production functions).
3. THE FRAMEWORK OF REGIONAL SCIENCE: Basic concepts of Regional Science (yields of scale of production, the law of diminishing marginal productivity, business efficiency factors, economies of scale and concentration, other regional sizes and macroeconomic characteristics, the specialization of the regional economy, public and private investment, degree of urbanization and population density, quality of work, demographic changes, environmental data, regional competitiveness).
4. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES AND SPATIAL RELATIONS: measures of spatial and regional statistics (space as a mathematical concept, metric functions, statistical measures of location and dispersion, measurement of spatial concentrations and differences).
5. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES AND SPATIAL RELATIONS: Measures of spatial and regional statistics (statistical measures of spatial location and dispersion, indicators of local specialization, indicators of spatial concentration or establishment of activity).
6. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGIONS INEQUALITIES AND SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS: Measures and models of spatial econometrics (Theil index, Lorenz curve, Gini coefficient, concentration coefficient, Florence coefficient, Gini – Hirschman coefficient, variance-participation analysis, Reilly's law of market areas, spatial interdependence models).
7. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL INEQUALITIES AND SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS: Spatial networks (modeling spatial interaction systems in graphs, epistemological approach to spatial networks, spatial networks and fields of applications, conceptual definitions in the study of spatial networks, flatness, spatial network modeling tools, measures of space and topology, measures of centrality).
8. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: regional inequalities in Greece (Demographic and population inequalities, regional urbanization, regional and sectoral distribution of production, regional inequalities in prosperity, productive dynamism).
9. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: regional disparities in Europe (General about the European Union, European Union and spatial disparities, population and social characteristics, level of well-being and standard of living, employment - unemployment, research and technological development, geographical distribution of development in Europe ).
10. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: regional development theories (early theories 1930-60, 2nd generation theories 1960-84, neo-Marxist theories, recent theories 1984 onwards).
11. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Regional multipliers and regional analysis (the concept of multiplier, graph of multiplier, the multiplier in a multi-regional system, the multiplier in the economic base model, the general input-output model).
12. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Regional multipliers and regional analysis (the multiplier in the input-output model, the multi-regional input-output model, the multiplier in the multi-regional input-output model, construction of the regional model, secondary regional models, mixed or hybrid regional models, analysis of the multi-regional econometric model).

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Interregional labor market and capital mobility (The labor supply and demand curve, labor market model, regional labor markets, interregional labor movement, labor and interregional capital mobility).

Η βασική βιβλιογραφία που θα χρησιμοποιηθεί είναι

Ελληνόγλωσση Βιβλιογραφία

1. Πολύζος, Σ., (2011) Περιφερειακή Ανάπτυξη, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Κριτική.
2. Πολύζος, Σ., (2015) Αστική Ανάπτυξη, Αθήνα, Εκδόσεις Κριτική.
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Ξενόγλωσση Βιβλιογραφία

1. Armstrong H. W. and Taylor J. (2000), Regional Economics and Policy, Oxford: Blackwell
2. Pike A., Rodriguez-Pose A. and Tomaney J. (2006), Local and Regional Development, New York: Routledge.
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4. Rodrigue, J. P., Comtois, C., Slack, B., (2013) The Geography of Transport Systems, New York, Routledge Publications.

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Journal of Economic Geography (Oxford)

The Annals of Regional Science (Springer)

Regional Studies (Taylor & Francis)

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development (Taylor & Francis)

Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies (Wiley)

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (SAGE)

Environment and Planning B: Planning and design (SAGE)

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (SAGE)

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (SAGE)

Regional Science and Urban Economics (Elsevier)

International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development (Interscience)

Region (ERSA)

Regional Science Inquiry (H.A.R.S.) Networks and Spatial Economics (Springer)