DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS OF SPATIAL ECONOMICS AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article presents the subject of the study of spatial economics, which is defined as the current stage in the evolution of ideas about regional development. The aim of the study is to identify alternative approaches to the interpretation of economic space as a central category of spatial economics, as well as to substantiate the need to develop a methodological platform for this area of scientific knowledge. In accordance with the purpose of the study, territorial, resource and informational approaches to the interpretation of economic space have been identified; the limitation of the orthodox economic theory, based on the principles of methodological individualism, is revealed when explaining spatial effects and spatial development. The result of the study is the formulation of the author's definition of economic space as a set of interactions of economic agents, which allows us to abandon the linear interpretation of the regional economy in favor of its definition as a multidimensional formation. The conclusion is made about the need for further development of the relativistic methodological platform of regional development, taking into account the principles of methodological individualism and methodological holism. In the course of the research, general scientific research methods were used - comparative analysis, classification, the unity of the historical and the logical.