ABSTRACT
This chapter adds substance to Sayer's claims. Specifically, it argues that the agency/structure dualism in economic geography results from the adoption of one of two theories of value found in economics. It also argues that no kind of philosophical 'ism', including Sayer's own 'realism', can permanently resolve the dualism in economic geography between agency and structure. Any proposed solution to the agency and structure dualism in economic geography that argues on the same terms as that dualism by comparing one architectonic approach to another, ultimately fails. The arguments has been that the split between a voluntarist and a structural account in economic geography is a result of making utility and labour values the core code for neoclassical and Marxian economics respectively. This chapter argues that the dualism in economic geography between agency and structure is a result of the adoption of two particular theories of value, namely, the labour theory of value and utility theory.
