This chapter teases out some of the economic implications of the economy in between cities and nations associated with policy mobility. The subject of policy mobility is one that signals a relational economic geography. It embodies the tension between the fixity and mobility of capital, between sedentarist and nomadic perspectives in geography. Yet it cannot be reduced to one or other in these sets of antimonies. The chapter charts some of the history of policy mobility before noting the importance of the transnational economic actors and interests that drive contemporary policy mobility. It considers the nature of policy mobility in strong and weak forms of inter-urban competition.
The Choice of Technology and Economic Geography
