TY - JOUR
T1 - Income Growth and Employment in the Pilbara: an evolutionary analysis, 1980-2010
AU - Plummer, Paul
AU - Tonts, Matthew
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - There is a growing interest in the application of evolutionary concepts and methodologies in understanding the dynamics of capitalist space economies. This paper contributes to these debates through an analysis of income growth and employment in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. While much of the work on 'evolutionary economic geography' has focused on core industrial and service economies, the Pilbara offers a unique context within which to test some of the emerging conceptual claims. Using simple econometric models, the paper shows the path-dependent nature of development in the Pilbara. It also points to the need to develop local models of resource economies as a means of better understanding the peculiar dynamics of change operating at these finer spatial scales. © 2013 Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc.
AB - There is a growing interest in the application of evolutionary concepts and methodologies in understanding the dynamics of capitalist space economies. This paper contributes to these debates through an analysis of income growth and employment in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. While much of the work on 'evolutionary economic geography' has focused on core industrial and service economies, the Pilbara offers a unique context within which to test some of the emerging conceptual claims. Using simple econometric models, the paper shows the path-dependent nature of development in the Pilbara. It also points to the need to develop local models of resource economies as a means of better understanding the peculiar dynamics of change operating at these finer spatial scales. © 2013 Geographical Society of New South Wales Inc.
U2 - 10.1080/00049182.2013.817036
DO - 10.1080/00049182.2013.817036
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-9182
VL - 44
SP - 227
EP - 241
JO - Australian Geographer
JF - Australian Geographer
IS - 3
ER -