Geography
Looking Back: Economic Geography’s Evolution, 1925–1991
Document Type
Editorial
Abstract
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.
Publication Title
Economic Geography
Publication Date
2026
ISSN
0013-0095
DOI
10.1080/00130095.2026.2632332
Keywords
Economic Geography, peer-reviewed journals
Repository Citation
Murphy, James T., "Looking Back: Economic Geography’s Evolution, 1925–1991" (2026). Geography. 1048.
https://commons.clarku.edu/faculty_geography/1048
