Schumpeter’s Gesetz and Gestalt in space: exploring evolutionary economic geographies of money and finance
本文指出货币与金融未充分融入演化经济地理学研究，从熊彼特视角分析信贷创造与金融创新的非均衡作用，以及资本主义演化形态对制度变迁的宏观驱动，揭示货币与金融在空间经济发展中的静态指标与动态驱动双重角色。
Abstract This paper argues that money and finance are not sufficiently integrated into the research agenda of evolutionary economic geography (EEG). I identify two dimensions of Joseph Schumpeter’s vision of the inherent instability of capitalism as promising for the EEG research agenda: First, the ‘law’ (Gesetz) of a disequilibrating role of credit creation and innovations in financial relations reveals the deeply ‘monetary character’ of his theory of development. Second, Schumpeter’s vision of an evolutionary ‘form’ (Gestalt) of capitalism describes a social process that rests on macro-drivers of institutional change. Money and finance thus simultaneously act as both static indicators and dynamic drivers of economic development in space.