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The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade
Abstract
The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics. Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy—that is, where economic activity occurs and why. Using new tools—in particular, modeling techniques developed to analyze industrial organization, international trade, and economic growth—this "new economic geography" has emerged as one of the most exciting areas of contemporary economics. The authors show how seemingly disparate models reflect a few basic themes, and in so doing they develop a common "grammar" for discussing a variety of issues. They show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics. This book is the first to provide a sound and unified explanation of the existence of large economic agglomerations at various spatial scales.
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“Geographic distance (or transportation costs) plays also a central role in the literature on trade and economic geography(Fujita et al. 1999).”
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“This is, for instance, the case in recent theories of increasing returns and endogenous growth and is spilling over into the models developed within the branch of economics which is sometimes referred to as ‘new economic geography’ or geographical economics (Fujita et al., 1999).”
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- Authors
- Fujita, M., Krugman, P., & Venables, A. J.
- Venue
- The MIT Press eBooks
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1999-06-11
- OpenAlex
- W2889260602
- Cited by
- 4,788
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 173.24
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The MIT Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Agglomeration and Urban Systems
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Regional Economic Trends and Sectoral Structure
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global trade and economics
- Keywords
- new economic geography, increasing returns, transportation costs, factor mobility, agglomeration economies, urban economics, regional economics, international trade, industrial organization, economic growth, spatial economics
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