New Economic Geography: history and debate

José Gaspar

FEP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto

Abstract: This paper aims to synthesize the main conceptual and ontological discussion around the field of New Economic Geography. It starts out by laying down the fundamental reasons and motivations that led to the surge of New Economic Geography and provides the background in adjacent fields of economic theory which made this possible. I then provide an overall assessment of the state of the art in NEG and track the intellectual evolution of the field since the nineties up to the present, focusing on the intrinsic criticism that it has been subject to throughout its history. This criticism has its roots in the different ontological conceptions of geography (space) and history (time), as well on the methodological differences, between economists and geographers. Another concern of this paper is to analyze the evolution of the debate and communication between geographical economists and economic geographers.

Keywords: economic geography; geography and history; ontological debate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N7 N9 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2016-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-his, nep-hme, nep-hpe, nep-int and nep-pke
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