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Peter Sunley - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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towards a developmental turn in evolutionary Economic Geography
Regional Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Ron Martin, Peter SunleyAbstract:Martin R. and Sunley P. Towards a developmental turn in evolutionary Economic Geography?, Regional Studies. Over the past couple of decades or so there have been increasing moves within evolutionary theory to move beyond the neo-Darwinian principles of variety, selection and retention, and to incorporate development. This has led to a richer palette of concepts, mechanisms and models of evolution and change, such as plasticity, robustness, evolvability, emergence, niche construction and self-organization, This opens up a different framework for understanding evolution. This paper sets out the main characteristics of the recent and ongoing ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary theory and suggests how these might inform a corresponding ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary Economic Geography.
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The new Economic Geography and policy relevance
Journal of Economic Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Ron Martin, Peter SunleyAbstract:Essentially, there are two ways that formal abstract models like those in new Economic Geography (NEG) can be used for policy analysis. First, formal models can be manipulated to draw out potential ‘policy implications’. Second, given these theoretically derived implications, such models can be used to analyse specific policy questions. In recent years, both approaches have attracted attention in NEG work. This article assesses this ‘policy turn’ in NEG. It argues that the usefulness of NEG models for policy analysis is constrained by the questionable plausibility and credibility of those models. But at the same time, although proper Economic Geography can claim to be based much more closely on the observation of real-world phenomena, its methods and explanatory accounts are difficult to use for the sort of counterfactual ‘what if’ type policy analyses found in NEG. Each version of Economic Geography has epistemological strengths and weaknesses when it comes to policy analysis.
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Relational Economic Geography: A Partial Understanding or a New Paradigm?
Economic Geography, 2009Co-Authors: Peter SunleyAbstract:Relational approaches in Economic Geography have grown in popularity and influence, but have not been critically evaluated or discussed. This article argues that poststructural and network-based versions of relational Economic Geography undoubtedly open up new research issues and provide tools for certain purposes, but questions whether they provide a coherent research agenda and new theoretical paradigm that can guide the reconceptualization of Economic Geography. The article addresses two main cases for a relational approach: its correspondence with a knowledge- and network-based capitalism and the claim that it provides an improved philosophy and ontology. It finds problems with both cases and argues that the approach provides an imprecise and selective ontology that is preoccupied with microscale processes. As a result, relational Economic Geography does not lend itself to causal explanations and schemas, is incapable of discriminating among different Economic theories, and could become immune to empirical evaluation. In many cases, it seems to disregard many of the valuable insights of institutionalist and critical realist approaches, including the implications of emergence. The article concludes that instead of searching for a microlevel relational perspective or a new vocabulary, Economic Geography's analysis of connections and relations would be better set within an evolutionary and historical institutionalism that understands Economic relations as forms of institutional rules and practices and does not privilege ties and networks over nodes and agents.
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Economic Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
2007Co-Authors: Ron Martin, Peter SunleyAbstract:Economic Geography has long been a key branch of human Geography as a whole, but in recent years the subject has undergone considerable theoretical, empirical and public growth. It has become a highly vibrant sphere of academic enquiry amongst the social sciences, and an increasingly prominent arena of political discourse and policy action. Reflecting this, "Economic Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences" is a comprehensive five-volume set covering the following key areas: the evolving project of Economic Geography; realms of wealth creation in a globalizing economy; changing worlds of work and welfare; and, the cultural economy regulating the Economic landscape. With a new introduction by the editors, this fascinating collection captures the essential elements involved in the intellectual development of the field, making it an indispensable resource for both student and scholar alike.
Wang Qiang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Study on Construction and Developent of Human-Economic Geography—an Overview of the Symposium on Future Development of Human-Economic Geography
Economic Geography, 2012Co-Authors: Wang QiangAbstract:As an inter-discipline,human-Economic Geography has made great progress in China,but there is three differentiation phenomena existing in the process.Therefore,for promoting human-Economic Geography developing better and faster,human-Economic geographers from major universities and institutions in China came together and discussed the future development of human-Economic Geography,proposed the strategic considerations of human-Economic Geography in the future,and gave suggestion to advance the discipline development while serving the country,local and sector demands.Based on the discussion,the symposium clarified the orientation of the discipline development: Firstly,human-Economic Geography must adhere to the essential researches on the temporal and spatial evolution of interaction between natural orbits and human orbits,for the purpose of sustainable development of the earth surface system in different spatial scales,as so to construct the discipline system.Secondly,human-Economic Geography should show the scientific value in the social application system,and carry out extensive researches on sustainable development for making significant contribution to society.
Koe Frenke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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why is Economic Geography not an evolutionary science towards an evolutionary Economic Geography
Economy, 2017Co-Authors: Ro Oschma, Koe FrenkeAbstract:The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in Economic Geography during the last couple of decades. By separating the three approaches in terms of theoretical content and research methodology, we can appreciate both the commonalities and differences between the three approaches. It is also apparent that innovative theorizing currently occurs at the interface between neoclassical and evolutionary theory (especially in modelling) and at the interface between institutional and evolutionary theory (especially in 'appreciative theorizing'). Taken together, we argue that Evolutionary Economic Geography is an emerging paradigm in Economic Geography, yet does so without isolating itself from developments in other theoretical approaches.
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the emerging empirics of evolutionary Economic Geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Ro Oschma, Koe FrenkeAbstract:Following last decade’s programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we report on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned vis-a-vis other strands of research in Economic Geography. First, we review studies on the path dependent nature of clustering, and how the evolutionary perspective relates to that of New Economic Geography. Second, we discuss research on agglomeration externalities in Regional Science, and how Evolutionary Economic Geography contributed to this literature with the concepts of cognitive proximity and related variety. Third, we go into the role of institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography, and we relate this to the way Institutional Economic Geography tends to view institutions. From this discussion, a number of new research challenges are derived.
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why is Economic Geography not an evolutionary science towards an evolutionary Economic Geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2006Co-Authors: Ro Oschma, Koe FrenkeAbstract:The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in Economic Geography during the last couple of decades. For all three approaches, we argue that they are in agreement in some respects and in conflict in other respects. While explaining to what extent and in what ways the Evolutionary Economic Geography approach differs from the New Economic Geography and the Institutional Economic Geography, we can specify the value-added of Economic Geography as an evolutionary science.
Paul Krugma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new Economic Geography now middle aged
Regional Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Paul KrugmaAbstract:Krugman P. The New Economic Geography, now middle-aged, Regional Studies. This paper claims that the New Economic Geography has now become ‘middle-aged’. On the one hand, the New Economic Geography is said to be of less relevance when describing current developments in advanced economies because it focuses more on tangible causes of the spatial concentration of Economic activities, and not so much on intangible sources, such as information spillovers. On the other hand, the paper states that recent developments in developing economies like China are quite in line with the core–periphery model that predicts increasing regional specialization as a result of Economic integration. Although both economists and geographers study these spatial processes, no fruitful exchange between the two is expected because of the use of different methodologies. Krugman P. La nouvelle geographie economique atteint l'âge mur, Regional Studies. Cet article pretend que la nouvelle geographie economique atteint ‘l’âge mur'. D'un ...
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the new Economic Geography past present and the future
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2004Co-Authors: Masahisa Fujita, Paul KrugmaAbstract:This article presents a summary of our conversation on the past, present and future of the new Economic Geography, which took place with the help of an interlocutor in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2002. Following the intro-duction, we explain what the new Economic Geography is, and we describe some basic models. The discussion of its various critical aspects is presented subse-quently, and the article concludes with the discussion of future issues and challenges facing the field.
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increasing returns and Economic Geography
Journal of Political Economy, 1991Co-Authors: Paul KrugmaAbstract:This paper develops a simple model that shows how a country can endogenously become differentiated into an industrialized "core" and an agricultural "periphery." In order to realize scale economies while minimizing transport costs, manufacturing firms tend to locate in the region with larger demand, but the location of demand itself depends on the distribution of manufacturing. Emergence of a core-periphery pattern depends on transportation costs, economies of scale, and the share of manufacturing in national income. The study of Economic Geography-of the location of factors of production in space-occupies a relatively small part of standard Economic analysis. International trade theory, in particular, conventionally treats nations as dimensionless points (and frequently assumes zero transportation costs between countries as well). Admittedly, models descended from von Thunen (1826) play an important role in urban studies, while Hotelling-type models of locational competition get a reasonable degree of attention in industrial organization. On the whole, however, it seems fair to say that the study of Economic Geography plays at best a marginal role in Economic theory. On the face of it, this neglect is surprising. The facts of Economic Geography are surely among the most striking features of real-world economies, at least to laymen. For example, one of the most remarkable things about the United States is that in a generally sparsely populated country, much of whose land is fertile, the bulk of the population resides in a few clusters of metropolitan areas; a quarter of the inhabitants are crowded into a not especially inviting section of the East Coast. It has often been noted that nighttime satellite
Ron Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Is British Economic Geography in decline
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2018Co-Authors: Ron MartinAbstract:In this brief note on the movement (or should it be defection?) of UK Economic geographers from Geography departments into business schools, I argue that this movement is in fact part of a wider de-prioritization and emasculation of Economic Geography within many Geography departments across the country. Yet this rundown of British Economic Geography has occurred precisely at a time when the importance and relevance of the subdiscipline have become increasingly recognized within national and local policy circles. Reversing the institutional decline of Economic Geography across the British university system is therefore imperative.
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towards a developmental turn in evolutionary Economic Geography
Regional Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Ron Martin, Peter SunleyAbstract:Martin R. and Sunley P. Towards a developmental turn in evolutionary Economic Geography?, Regional Studies. Over the past couple of decades or so there have been increasing moves within evolutionary theory to move beyond the neo-Darwinian principles of variety, selection and retention, and to incorporate development. This has led to a richer palette of concepts, mechanisms and models of evolution and change, such as plasticity, robustness, evolvability, emergence, niche construction and self-organization, This opens up a different framework for understanding evolution. This paper sets out the main characteristics of the recent and ongoing ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary theory and suggests how these might inform a corresponding ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary Economic Geography.
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The new Economic Geography and policy relevance
Journal of Economic Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Ron Martin, Peter SunleyAbstract:Essentially, there are two ways that formal abstract models like those in new Economic Geography (NEG) can be used for policy analysis. First, formal models can be manipulated to draw out potential ‘policy implications’. Second, given these theoretically derived implications, such models can be used to analyse specific policy questions. In recent years, both approaches have attracted attention in NEG work. This article assesses this ‘policy turn’ in NEG. It argues that the usefulness of NEG models for policy analysis is constrained by the questionable plausibility and credibility of those models. But at the same time, although proper Economic Geography can claim to be based much more closely on the observation of real-world phenomena, its methods and explanatory accounts are difficult to use for the sort of counterfactual ‘what if’ type policy analyses found in NEG. Each version of Economic Geography has epistemological strengths and weaknesses when it comes to policy analysis.
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the handbook of evolutionary Economic Geography
2010Co-Authors: Ron Boschma, Ron MartinAbstract:Contents: Introduction: The New Paradigm of Evolutionary Economic Geography 1. The Aims and Scope of Evolutionary Economic Geography Ron Boschma and Ron Martin PART I: CONCEPTUAL CHALLENGES IN EVOLUTIONARY Economic Geography 2. Generalized Darwinism and Evolutionary Economic Geography Jurgen Essletzbichler and David L. Rigby 3. The Place of Path Dependence in an Evolutionary Perspective on the Economic Landscape Ron Martin and Peter Sunley 4. Complexity Thinking and Evolutionary Economic Geography Ron Martin and Peter Sunley 5. The Spatial Evolution of Innovation Networks: A Proximity Perspective Ron Boschma and Koen Frenken PART II: FIRM DYNAMICS, INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS AND SPATIAL CLUSTERING 6. Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography Erik Stam 7. Pecuniary Externalities and the Localized Generation of Technological Knowledge Cristiano Antonelli 8. The Relationship between Multinational Firms and Innovative Clusters Simona Iammarino and Philip McCann 9. Emergence of Regional Clusters: The Role of Spinoffs in the Early Growth Process Michael S. Dahl, Christian R. A stergaard and Bent Dalum 10. A Social-Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Clusters Udo Staber 11. Evolutionary Economic Geography: Regional Systems of Innovation and High-tech Clusters Philip Cooke and Carla de Laurentis PART III: NETWORK EVOLUTION AND Geography 12. Clusters, Networks and Economic Development: An Evolutionary Economics Perspective Elisa Giuliani 13. Reputation, Trust and Relational Centrality in Local Networks: An Evolutionary Geography Perspective Stefano Denicolai, Antonella Zucchella and Gabriele Cioccarelli 14. The Evolution of a Strategic Alliance Network: Exploring the Case of Stock Photography Johannes Gluckler 15. Complexity, Networks and Knowledge Flows Olav Sorenson, Jan W. Rivkin and Lee Fleming 16. The Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: The Role of Inventors' Mobility Across Firms and in Space Stefano Breschi, Camilla Lenzi, Francesco Lissoni and Andrea Vezzulli 17. Growth, Development and Structural Change of Innovator Networks: The Case of Jena Uwe Cantner and Holger Graf PART IV: INSTITUTIONS, CO-EVOLUTION AND Economic Geography 18. An Evolutionary Approach to Localized Learning and Spatial Clustering Anders Malmberg and Peter Maskell 19. Path Dependence and Path Plasticity: The Co-evolution of Institutions and Innovation - the German Customized Business Software Industry Simone Strambach 20. On the Notion of Co-evolution in Economic Geography Eike W. Schamp 21. Locked in Decline? On the Role of Regional Lock-ins in Old Industrial Areas Robert Hassink PART V: STRUCTURAL CHANGE, AGGLOMERATION EXTERNALITIES AND REGIONAL BRANCHING 22. The Evolution of Spatial Patterns over Long Time-Horizons: The Relation with Technology and Economic Development Jan Lambooy 23. The Information Economy and its Spatial Evolution in English Cities James Simmie 24. An Evolutionary Model of Firms' Location with Technological Externalities Giulio Bottazzi and Pietro Dindo Index
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Economic Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences
2007Co-Authors: Ron Martin, Peter SunleyAbstract:Economic Geography has long been a key branch of human Geography as a whole, but in recent years the subject has undergone considerable theoretical, empirical and public growth. It has become a highly vibrant sphere of academic enquiry amongst the social sciences, and an increasingly prominent arena of political discourse and policy action. Reflecting this, "Economic Geography: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences" is a comprehensive five-volume set covering the following key areas: the evolving project of Economic Geography; realms of wealth creation in a globalizing economy; changing worlds of work and welfare; and, the cultural economy regulating the Economic landscape. With a new introduction by the editors, this fascinating collection captures the essential elements involved in the intellectual development of the field, making it an indispensable resource for both student and scholar alike.
