ABSTRACT

This paper lays down the path from the period of the European Renaissance until the present time of how economists and geographers finally came together in their pursuit of explaining economic phenomenon taking into account geographical features based on the concept of location.

Underlying this path is the fact that social sciences cannot be taken one by one and independently from each other: One cannot separate economics, political science, political economy, anthropology, sociology, psychology and arts from geography and history. Moreover, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy as well as mathematics and statistics also interact with this big picture. It is due to this synthesis aspect that today as a result, following Paul Krugman, the New Economic Geography emerged as an hybrid field.