Evolution, Path Dependence and Economic Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Mackinnon (0000-0003-2901-5081, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author), Danny Mackinnon |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1449-1463 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00148.x |
| OpenAlex | W2088317178 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 44 |
This article provides a review of research on evolution and path dependence in economic geography. While economic geographers have long been interested in regional economic change, the period since the early 1990s has witnessed a more explicit concern with questions of evolution and adaptation. Indeed, the notion that the economic landscape is 'path-dependent' has been described as one of the most exciting ideas in economic geography. Evolutionary economic geography (EEG) can be seen as comprised of two main strands of literature, focusing on: path dependency, institutions and lock-in; and evolution, routines and complexity. Rather than viewing EEG as a separate enterprise, I suggest that there is a need to link evolution to institutional and political economy approaches within a theoretically plural economic geography. After outlining the contribution of evolutionary economics and the two key strands of EEG, the article discusses some key issues for evolutionary research in economic geography
Critical geography · Development geography · Economic geography · Economics · Evolutionary Economics · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Neoclassical economics · Path dependence · Path dependency · Plural · Strategic geography · Time geography · Business Strategy and Innovation · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Wage structure trajectories and regional divergence
The evolution of global value chains
Schumpeter’s Gesetz and Gestalt in space
Smart specialization and participatory processes in green path renewal. Analysis of the forest-based bioeconomy in sparsely populated regions in the Nordics
Reproductive agencies in regional economic resilience
Concentration and co-localization dynamics of technological innovation
Market relatedness and local export dynamics
What drives the change? Critical junctures in the Beeronomics of Bavaria and Czechia
Local job multipliers from mining in South Africa’s intermediate city municipalities
Spatialities of being a young Neet in an era of turbulence
Divorced but co-habiting
Geographies of production I
Variegated work regimes of Chinese investment in Ethiopia
Linking industrial culture and human agency in three (post)industrial towns
Temporality and the evolution of GPNs
The city as a machine for learning
How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us
Path dependency and creative convergence
From 'Evolutionary Turn' to 'Territorial Resources
What is industrial culture anyway?' Theoretical framing of the concept in economic geography
Hyper-peripheral regional evolution
Global destruction networks and hybrid e-waste economies
High technology, space, and society
The Associational Economy
The Evolution of Institutional Economics
What Are Institutions?
How to unlock regional economies from path dependency? From learning region to learning cluster
The economics of technical change
The nature of heterodox economics
International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle
Technical change and economic theory
Spatial Divisions of Labour
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
How Economics Forgot History
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Economic Action and Social Structure
Path dependence and regional economic evolution
Exploring evolutionary economic geographies
A theoretical framework for evolutionary economic geography
Complexity thinking and evolutionary economic geography
Modeling industrial evolution in geographical space
The Resurgence of Regional Economies, Ten Years Later
On What's Right and Keeping Left
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology
Increasing Returns and Economic Geography
Globalizing’ regional development
Continuity and Contingency in the Spatial Evolution of Industries
The Learning Economy, the Learning Firm and the Learning Region
Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography
Why is economics not an evolutionary science?1
Rethinking Change in Old Industrial Regions
Turn Again? Rethinking Institutions and the Governance of Local and Regional Economies
Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science
| Citations per year | 1.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |