Economic Geography

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Economic Geography

Introduction
In recent years there has been ongoing, at times heated, debate in economic
geography as to how best to conceptualise and theorise economies and their
geographies. During the 1970s and 1980s, stimulated by the critique of spatial
science and views of the space-economy that drew heavily on neo-classical
economics, strands of heterodox political-economy approaches in general and
Marxian political economy in particular rose to prominence. These were important in introducing concerns with issues of evolution, institutions and the state,
alongside those of agency and structure, in developing more powerful and nuanced
understandings of economies and their geographies. Much of the subsequent
debate in the 1990s was informed by post-structural critiques of such politicaleconomy approaches, especially those that were seen (rightly or wrongly) to rely
upon an overly deterministic and structural reading of the economy and its
geographies (R. Hudson, 2001). These have been important i

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