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Cambridge Journal of Economics 24:483-504 (2000)
Copyright © 2000 Cambridge Political Economy Society

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Economic geography: the great half-century

AJ Scott

Department of Geography and Department of Policy Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
E-mail: ajscott@ucla.edu

Abstract

The paper examines the intellectual history of economic geography over the last 50 years. Three major episodes of research activity are considered: (a) the spatial analysis and regional science movement of the 1960s; (b) the turn to political economic (especially Marxian) approaches in the 1970s; and the intensification of interest in regional-global interactions since about the mid-1980s. Two minor interludes are also briefly examined; these are represented by behavioural geography and the so-called localities debate. It is suggested that the course of economic geography over the last half-century can best be understood by reference to the sociology of knowledge, i.e., a contextualised but reasoned description of those contextualised but reasoned descriptions that constitute scholarly practice.

Key Words: geographic thought • history of ideas • regional science • economic geography • philosophy of geography


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