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Looking Back: Economic Geography’s Evolution, 1925–1991

James T. Murphy

Economic Geography2026https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2026.2632332article
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Editorial: In honor of Economic Geography's (EG) centennial in 2025, this commentary reviews its early history from the perspectives of its first four editors-in-chief—Wallace W. Atwood, Elmer Ekblaw, Raymond Murphy, and Gerald Karaska—who managed the journal between 1925 and 1991. This time span could be termed the journal’s premodern to early-modern period. During this time EG’s content shifted from empirically descriptive, chorographically focused articles to content that was increasingly diversified topically, theoretically, methodologically, and normatively to a point that reflects more clearly the field that we know today. © 2026 Clark University.

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  title        = {{Looking Back: Economic Geography’s Evolution, 1925–1991}},
  author       = {James T. Murphy},
  journal      = {Economic Geography},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2026.2632332},
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