Bringing History into Evolutionary Economic Geography for a Better Understanding of Evolution

Zhigao Liu

No 901, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: The paper tries to construct the historical methodology for evolutionary economic geography. I elevate history to the methodological foundation of evolutionary economic geography, on which concrete research methods should be based. I explore how to evolution in economic geography by placing history in historical time and historical contexts. Accordingly, the concepts of path creation and path dependence should be used together in historical study. More important, the concept of path interdependence, which stresses the importance of the circumstances under which different processes and events are likely to occur, opens a new window on the temporal aspects of the world.

Keywords: Organizational ecology; fashion industry; creative industries; clusters; institutional lock-in (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2009-01, Revised 2009-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo, nep-his, nep-hpe and nep-pke
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