In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks to Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Princesa de Asturias Chair and a professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics. Between 2015 and 2017, he was president of the Regional Science Association International. He won the European Regional Science Association Prize in regional science in 2018. He covers topics including:
- What factors make a particular place or individuals in a particular place successful or unsuccessful
- Whether political decentralization or devolution works
- The revenge of places that don’t matter

This conversation was recorded in June 2022. To read a transcript of this episode, visit: https://mck.co/ARP

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