Evolutionary Economic Geographies

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 183-198

  Essletzbichler, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capitalist economy, populations of entities differing; Evolution in complex population systems; Evolutionary economic geographies; Evolutionary economics, variety, selection, retention; Geography, for production retention selection of variety; Institutions influencing evolution of firms; Local institutions, constraining choices at local scale; Understanding dynamic processes, influencing behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886866937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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