Book Review: Peter Batey, David Plane (Editors), Great Minds in Regional Science (Vol.2), Springer, 2023

Abstract

The subseries Great Minds in Regional Science, along with the subseries The Voice of Regional Science, comprise the book series titled Footprints in Regional Science, published under The Regional Science Academy. The authors within the Great Minds in Regional Science series, many of whom are considered contemporary thought leaders, present modern perspectives on the collected works of great thinkers in regional science. In volume 1, the editors and authors first focused on individuals that were involved in the formal establishment of regional science and the Regional Science Association and then provided vignettes of individuals whose academic contributions are considered antecedents to regional science and those that laid the foundations of regional science (Batey and Plane, 2020). A thorough review of this first volume by Alina Schoenberg was published in a previous edition of the Romanian Journal of Regional Science (Schoenberg, 2023). The second volume of Great Minds in Regional Science continues the focus on great thinkers that established theories, statistical methods, or modelling tools that are considered antecedents to or foundational to regional science as it exists today (Batey and Plane, 2023).