Generalized darwinism and evolutionary economic geography

The Handbook of Evolutionary Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-61

  Essletzbichler, Jürgen ^a   Rigby, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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