The Howard G. Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Modeling the Capitalist Space Economy

Bringing Society and Space Back

Bibliographic Data

ID9693699
AuthorsElaine Sheppard (0000-0002-6635-0965, corresponding author), Eric Sheppard (0000-0002-5299-5586)
Year1990
Volume66
Issue3
Pages201
Publication date1990-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/143398
OpenAlexW2321237166
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Recent theoretical debates in economic geography are not reducible to a dispute between alternative economic theories, but are dominated nonetheless by neoclassical vs Marxist paradigms. Logical foundations of a Marxist model of the capitalist space economy are presented using mathematical models, enabling insight into unsolved theoretical debates and a more trenchant critique of neoclassical propositions. The equilibrium geography of production resulting from full capitalist competition is laid out, but analysis of this reveals both inherent disequilibrium processes disrupting any equilibrating tendencies and the contradictory, conflictual, and inconstant nature of the capitalist space economy. Models of the space economy are inseparable from social theory and social and political processes, and the very incorporation of space into these models challenges some well-known propositions from non-spatial economic theory

Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Neoclassical economics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Business Strategy and Innovation · Philosophy · Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

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