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...

THE POLITICS OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT In human geography, the interest in the politics of local economic development and the emergence of a literature on the topic date from approximately the early to mid-‘eighties. This was initially an American interest but it was then taken up in Britain. There have been studies in countries other than the United States and the United Kingdom and there ...

This article investigates common economic consequences of population aging and economic integration for agglomeration processes. We introduce demography into the New Economic Geography by generalizing the constructed capital approach to account for changes in the age structure of the population. Interestingly, the level of trade costs triggering catastrophic agglomeration is rather sensitive to...

2 2 Abstract Regional economies are synergy-laden systems of physical and relational assets, and intensifying globalization is making this situation more and not less the case. As such, regions are an essential dimension of the development process, not just in the more advanced countries but also in less-developed parts of the world. Development theorists have hitherto largely tended to overloo...

There are two principal theories of why countries or regions trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is virtually no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing returns model of economic geography featuring “home market effects” with that o...

Infrastructure planning for networked infrastructure such as grid electrification (or piped supply of water) has historically been a process of outward network expansion, either by utilities in response to immediate economic opportunity, or in response to a government mandate or subsidy intended to catalyze economic growth. While significant progress has been made in access to grid electricity ...

Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the predictions of new economic geography models for the distribution of income and production across space. The discussion highlights connections with other research in regional an...