Rethinking the “Economic” in Economic Geography: Broadening Our Vision or Losing Our Focus?

By Ron Martin, P. Sunley. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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‘Spatial’ relationships? Towards a reconceptualization of embedded ness (2004, background): “However, there is a number of conceptual problems with regard to embeddedness and space/place (cf. Martin and Sunley, 2001).”
Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation (2009, background): “The second missing link concerns the need to rediscover a sense of political economy (Jones 2008; 144 Martin and Sunley 2001).”
Economic Sociologies in Space (2005, background): “Indeed, some have argued that economic geography’s engagement with such proximate fields and their associated master concepts and methodological traditions is too shallow (Martin and Sunley 2001).”
Beyond Soft Institutionalism: Accumulation, Regulation, and Their Geographical Fixes (2001, background): “The new institutionalism also helps to `broaden our vision' (compare Martin and Sunley, 2001), instructing us to consider local economic restructurings within their wider political, cultural, and geographical `worlds'.”
Building Trust in Economic Space (2006, background): “Moreover, recent conceptual developments (eg, institutional thickness, communities of practice, relational proximity, or learning regions) remain, to some, ‘fuzzy’, vague, or difficult to apply from a policy-making perspective (Markusen, 1999; Martin and Sunley, 2001; Morgan, 2005).”
Learning, innovation and regional development: a critical appraisal of recent debates (2002, background): “This can be seen as a necessary, if insufficient, condition for research to proceed beyond ‘vague theory and thin empirics’ (Martin and Sunley, 2001: 153) towards a firmer understanding of the key processes that underpin economic development at local and regional levels (Sunley, 2000).”
‘Nothing includes everything’: towards engaged pluralism in Anglophone economic geography (2010, background): “…what they term ‘cultural essentialism’, their name for Amin and Thrift’s approach, criticizing it as ‘intolerant’, deploying ‘vague theory and thin empirics’, and characterized as ‘a loose assemblage of ill-defined concepts, fuzzy metaphors, or mere neologisms’ (Martin and Sunley, 2001: 153).”