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EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
An emerging field or framework?
David L. Rigby
Introduction
At a very broad level Economic Geography seeks to understand spatial uneven development, how geographies of growth and decline are produced, how they change over time and what role the spatial distribution of economic activity plays in the processes that drive these dynamics. Since the 1980s, Economic Geography has been restless. For practitioners within this field, the research domain, theoretical cores and principal methodologies have been up for grabs, along with the preferred connections to other fields within geography and those further afar (Martin & Sunley, 1996; Amin & Thrift, 2000; Plummer & Sheppard, 2001; Bathelt & Glückler, 2003). There ...
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