Making history matter more in evolutionary economic geography

Martin Ron () and Sunley Peter ()
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Martin Ron: University of Cambridge Department of Geography CB2 3EN Cambridge UK
Sunley Peter: University of Southampton School of Geography and Environmental Science Southampton UK

ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 2022, vol. 66, issue 2, 65-80

Abstract: Our focus in this paper is on a somewhat curious feature of evolutionary economic geography, namely that although concerned with evolution – with processes of historical change and transformation – evolutionary economic geography seems not to take history as seriously as it would be expected to do. We argue that evolutionary economic geography is inescapably an historical social science, and that as such would benefit from exploring the different ways in which history can be used in causal investigation, from problematising the different temporalities of economic change and transformation, and from giving more attention to appreciative theorising and narrative case study over variable-centred approaches.

Keywords: Evolutionary economic geography; History; Temporalities; History-to-theory; History-in-theory; Historical cognizance; Narrative methods; Appreciative theorising (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/zfw-2022-0014

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