  The study and measurement of economic resilience is ruled by high level of
complexity related to the diverse structure, functionality, spatiality, and
dynamics describing economic systems. Towards serving the demand of
integration, this paper develops a three-dimensional index, capturing
engineering, ecological, and evolutionary aspects of economic resilience that
are considered separately in the current literature. The proposed index is
computed on GDP data of worldwide countries, for the period 1960-2020,
concerning 14 crises considered as shocks, and was found well defined in a
conceptual context of its components. Its application on real-world data allows
introducing a novel classification of countries in terms of economic
resilience, and reveals geographical patterns and structural determinants of
this attribute. Impressively enough, economic resilience appears positively
related to major productivity coefficients, gravitationally driven, and
depended on agricultural specialization, with high structural heterogeneity in
the low class. Also, the analysis fills the literature gap by shaping the
worldwide map of economic resilience, revealing geographical duality and
centrifugal patterns in its geographical distribution, a relationship between
diachronically good performance in economic resilience and geographical
distance from the shocks origin, and a continent differentiation expressed by
the specialization of America in engineering resilience, Africa and Asia in
ecological and evolutionary resilience, and a relative lag of Europe and
Oceania. Finally, the analysis provides insights into the effect of the 2008 on
the globe and supports a further research hypothesis that political instability
is a main determinant of low economic resilience, addressing avenues of further
research.
