Essletzbichler, Jürgen. 2012. Generalized Darwinism, group selection and evolutionary economic geography. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 56 (3): S. 129-146.
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The paper contributes to the development of evolutionary economic geography in the following ways. First, it summarizes the conceptual building blocks of Generalized Darwinism (GD) and argues that an evolutionary theory based on GD encompasses and complements those based on the principle of emergence and path-dependence. Second, the paper discusses the notion of group selection considered important for rejecting methodological reductionism and developing a multi-level evolutionary theory that opens new opportunities for the application of GD in economic geography. Third, the paper shows how the meta-theoretical framework can be used to organize existing work in evolutionary economic geography, identify conceptual and empirical blind spots in current research, but also contribute to theory formulation and bridge currently disconnected subfields in economic geography more generally.
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie |
Citation Index | SSCI |
Language | English |
Title | Generalized Darwinism, group selection and evolutionary economic geography |
Volume | 56 |
Number | 3 |
Year | 2012 |
Page from | 129 |
Page to | 146 |
DOI | 10.1515/zfw.2012.0010 |
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- Essletzbichler, Jürgen (Details)
- Organization
- Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 1807 Economic geography (Details)