This contribution argues that evolutionary economic geography needs to widen its conceptual apparatus in order to engage with the grand challenges of our times. Instead of understanding evolution as a gradual, path-dependent and geographically localized process, the current challenges result from various global political-economic transformations requiring an understanding of evolution as a outcome of variational and transformational change, the incorporation of macro-scale analysis, the augmentation of territorial with relational conceptualizations of space and a focus on historical analysis of political-economic development rather than ahistorical descriptions of regional outcomes of a generalized evolutionary process. We illustrate the potential impact of globalization on the competitive advantage of US metropolitan areas through an analysis of relations of unequal exchange between the USA and the Global South. The estimated value drain constitutes a potential source of revenue for producers in the North that complements the competitive advantages of cities based on superior localized technological performance.

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地理演化政治经济学：将地方演化与不平衡综合发展联系起来

本文认为，演化经济地理学需要拓宽其概念工具，以应对我们时代的巨大挑战。当前的挑战不是将进化理解为渐进的、路径依赖的和地理局部的过程，而是来自各种全球政治经济转型，需要将进化理解为变分和转型变化的结果，结合宏观尺度分析，通过空间的关系概念化来扩大领土，并注重政治经济发展的历史分析，而不是对广义演化过程的区域结果的非历史描述。我们通过分析美国与全球南方之间的不平等交换关系，说明全球化对美国大都市区竞争优势的潜在影响。估计的价值流失构成了北方生产商的潜在收入来源，补充了基于卓越的本地技术性能的城市的竞争优势。