On the Analytical Dimension of Proximity Dynamics

The term Proximity is fashionable. It is displayed in shops, on advertising boards, and also in the works of economists who never used to be interested in this notion before. The recent interest in the subject could be alarming, because, in the field of economics, modes and concepts are fugacious. However, the appearance of works dedicated to this new notion should make us think about the reasons for the emergence of a field of research which, not so long ago, was doomed to anonymity. Indeed it often reveals social evolutions or analytical insufficiencies of theoretical approaches which cannot describe all aspects of reality.

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