Geographies of Production: Growth Regimes in Spatial Perspective 3 – Toward a Relational View of Economic Action and Policy

The version of record [Bathelt, H. (2006). Geographies of production: Growth regimes in spatial perspective 3 – Toward a relational view of economic action and policy. Progress in Human Geography, 30(2), 223-236.] is available online at: http://phg.sagepub.com/content/30/2/223 [doi: 10.1191/0309132506ph603pr]Since the 1990s, the basic foundations and core ideas of economic geography have been under intensive scrutiny. A microperspective of human action should be applied to economic geography which emphasizes its contextual, path-dependent and contingent nature. This also implies that general spatial laws of economic action do not exist