Economics of agglomeration : cities, industrial location, and globalization
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Economics of agglomeration : cities, industrial location, and globalization
Cambridge University Press, 2013
2nd ed
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-493) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural features, economic mechanisms that rely on the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs are more fundamental. This book is a study of the economic reasons for the existence of a large variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local. This second edition combines a comprehensive analysis of the fundamentals of spatial economics and an in-depth discussion of the most recent theoretical developments in new economic geography and urban economics. It aims to highlight several of the major economic trends observed in modern societies. The first edition was the winner of the 2004 William Alonso Memorial Prize for Innovative Work in Regional Science.
Table of Contents
- 1. Agglomeration and economic theory
- Part I. Fundamentals of Spatial Economics: 2. The breakdown of the price system in a spatial economy
- 3. The von Thunen model and land rent formation
- 4. Increasing returns vs. transportation costs: the fundamental trade-off of spatial economics
- 5. Cities and the public sector
- Part II. The Structure of Metropolitan Areas: 6. The spatial structure of cities under communication externalities
- 7. The formation of urban centers under imperfect competition
- Part III. Factor Mobility and Industrial Location: 8. Industrial agglomeration under monopolistic competition
- 9. Market size and industrial clusters
- Part IV. Urban Systems, Regional Growth, and the Multinationalization of Firms: 10. Back to von Thunen: the formation of cities in a spatial economy
- 11. Globalization, growth, and the geography of the supply chain.
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