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Regions and the World Economy 2. The National Economy and the Sovereign State 3. The Coming Break-Up of National Economies? 4. The Global Mosaic of Regional Economies 5. The Regional Foundations of Economic Performance 6. Collective Order and Regional Development: Social and Cultural Regulation of Local Economic Systems 7. Prospects for Poor Regions 8. A World of Regions 9. The Changing Geopolitics of Production, Competition, and Regional Interdependence
Glasmeier et al. (Mon,) studied this question.