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Abstract
This short article aims to present some of the perspectives and results of my research on technological change and capitalist development in different national and regional social formations. A macro-geographical approach, comprising a comparative as well as a historical analysis, has been taken during the research. The comparative approach is used to obtain ‘variability reduction’, while the historical approach implies both the uncovering of the ‘origins’ of the process and the investigation of the dynamics of social change. This macro-geographical approach to the study of capitalist development builds on a ‘realist’ methodology, i.e. on a combination of abstract and concrete research (Sayer 1984). The task of abstract research in this respect is, through conceptualisation, abstraction and theoretical construction, to identify the necessary, internal relations of the capitalist mode of production, and events are only considered as possible outcomes. In the concrete research, the results of the abstract research are used to study the actual outcome.