George Stigler, like Piero Sraffa before him, characterised Marshall's doctrine of external economies as playing a major role in permitting an analytical reconciliation of competition and increasing returns, thus repairing a major gap in classical price theory. However, such a characterisation...

Our focus in this paper is on a somewhat curious feature of evolutionary economic geography, namely that although concerned with evolution - with processes of historical change and transformation - evolutionary economic geography seems not to take history as seriously as it would be expected to...