Why is economic geography not an evolutionary science? Towards an evolutionary economic geography

Ron Boschma () and Koen Frenken

No 501, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography

Abstract: The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in economic geography during the last couple of decades. For all three approaches, we argue that they are in agreement in some respects and in conflict in other respects. While explaining to what extent and in what ways the Evolutionary Economic Geography approach differs from the New Economic Geography and the Institutional Economic Geography, we can specify the value-added of economic geography as an evolutionary science.

Keywords: evolutionary economic geography; new economic geography; institutional economic geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 B20 B25 R0 R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2005-02, Revised 2005-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo, nep-hpe and nep-pke
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