Towards a Developmental Turn in Evolutionary Economic Geography?

Ronald Martin and Peter Sunley

No 1401, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: Over the past couple of decades or so, there have been increasing moves within evolutionary theory to move beyond the neo-Darwinian principles of variety, selection and retention, and to incorporate development. This has led to a richer palette of concepts, mechanisms and models of evolution and change, such as plasticity, robustness, evolvability, emergence, niche construction, and selforganisation, This opens up a different framework for understanding evolution. In this paper we set out the main characteristics of the recent and ongoing ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary theory, and suggest how these might inform a corresponding ‘developmental turn’ in evolutionary economic geography.

Keywords: Evolutionary economic geography; Generalised Darwinism; Evolutionary developmental biology; Developmental systems theory; Plasticity; Robustness; Evolvability; Emergence; Self organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2014-01, Revised 2014-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo, nep-hpe and nep-pke
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