Roepke lecture in economic geography-Rethinking regional path dependence: Beyond lock-in to evolution

Economic Geography

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-27

  Martin, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Conversion; Equilibrium; Evolution; Layering; Lock in; Path dependence

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; MODELING;

EID: 74949124956     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2009.01056.x     Document Type: Article

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