North England: An Economic Geography

Economic geography

Editorial : Constructing an evolutionary economic geography 1 . Taking evolution seriously in economic geography

Editorial: Constructing an evolutionary economic geography 1. Taking evolution seriously in economic geography Change is one of capitalism's constants. As a mode of economic organization, capitalism never stands still. Its central imperative—the search for profit and wealth creation— drives a perpetual process of economic flux. Every day new firms, new products, new technologies, new industries...

Reshaping Economic Geography

Geography and Economic Development

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choices. Many geographic regions that have not been conducive to modern economic growth have high population densities and are experiencing rapid increases in popu...

Rethinking relational economic geography

Recent theoretical and empirical work in economic geography has experienced what might be termed a ‘relational turn’ that focuses primarily on the ways in which sociospatial relations of economic actors are intertwined with processes of economic change at various geographical scales. This phenomenon begs the questions of whether the ‘relational turn’ is simply an explicit reworking of what migh...