Beyond Soft Institutionalism: Accumulation, Regulation, and Their Geographical Fixes:

摘要: This author offers a circumspect appraisal of the recent controversies surrounding an ‘institutional turn’ in economic geography and urban regional studies. He contends that, although prevailing institutionalist perspectives undoubtedly yield many welcome innovations useful departures, they are also beset by certain conceptual difficulties. These include, first, thin political economy most discernible failure to appreciate fully crucial role state shaping – process, related weakness examining asymmetries power which enframe governance space economies. Second, there is danger drifting towards soft institutionalism: tautological trap that could invite researchers policymakers mistakenly envisage presence or otherwise thickness’ local ‘social capital’ as adequate explanation uneven development. It then contended one relatively mature but continually evolvin...