1.Introduction to regional economy. Spatial economic systems. Theoretical approaches to their explanation. 2. Localization theories – agriculture (von Thünen), industry (Schäffle, Fischer, Weber). 3. Localization theories of the 1920s and 1950s. 4. Agglomeration effects, spatial concentration or dispersion. 5. Regions and regionalization, homogeneous and heterogeneous regions. 6. Regional dimensions of the market of factors of production – job market, immovable property market. 7. Regional development and growth theories – theory of polarized development, export base theory etc. 8. Economic level of regions – main influencing factors. 9. Evaluation of the economic level – microeconomic and macroeconomic, quantitative and qualitative indicators. 10. Regional policy – inter-regional differences, regional policy conception according to the main economic schools. 11. Regional policy in the Czech Republic – principles, tools, regions with concentrated support from the state. 12. Regional policy of the Czech Republic in the period 2014-2020. 13. Regional development strategy of the Czech Republic and other regional policy documents of the Czech Republic.