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Economic Geography : the Integration of Regions and Nations.
Economic Geography is the most complete, up-to-date textbook available on the important new field of spatial economics. This book fills a gap by providing advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the latest research and methodologies in an accessible and comprehensive way. It is an indispen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I. Facts and Theories; Chapter 1. Spatial Inequalities: A Brief Historical Overview; 1.1 The Space-Economy and the Industrial Revolution; 1.2 Regional Disparities: When an Ancient Phenomenon Becomes Measurable; 1.3 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 2. Space in Economic Thought; 2.1 Economics and Geography: A Puzzling History of Reciprocal Ignorance; 2.2 Integrating Space in Economics: The Main Attempts; 2.3 The Burden of Modeling Constraints; 2.4 The Breakdown of the Competitive Paradigm in a Spatial Economy.
- 2.5 What Are the Alternative Modeling Strategies?2.6 Increasing Returns and Transport Costs: The Basic Trade-Off of Economic Geography; 2.7 Concluding Remarks; Part II. Space, Trade, and Agglomeration; Chapter 3. Monopolistic Competition; 3.1 The Dixit-Stiglitz Approach; 3.2 Monopolistic Competition: A Linear Setting; 3.3 Concluding Remarks; 3.4 Related Literature; Chapter 4. Interregional Trade and Market Size; 4.1 The Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman Model of Trade; 4.2 The Home-Market Effect; 4.3 Concluding Remarks; 4.4 Related Literature; Chapter 5. Gravity and Trade Costs; 5.1 The Gravity Model.
- 5.2 Trade Costs5.3 Concluding Remarks; 5.4 Related Literature; Chapter 6. The Core-Periphery Structure; 6.1 Increasing Returns and Industrialization; 6.2 Regional Disparities: The Krugman Model; 6.3 The Krugman Model Revisited; 6.4 Concluding Remarks; 6.5 Related Literature; Chapter 7. Intermediate Goods and the Evolution of Regional Disparities; 7.1 The Role of Intermediate Goods; 7.2 The Spatial Distribution of the Manufacturing Sector; 7.3 The Evolution of Regional Disparities; 7.4 Concluding Remarks; 7.5 Related Literature; Chapter 8. The Bell-Shaped Curve of Spatial Development.
- 8.1 A Linear Core-Periphery Model8.2 When Does the Bell-Shaped Curve Arise?; 8.3 Concluding Remarks; 8.4 Related Literature; Chapter 9. Spatial Competition; 9.1 Spatial Duopoly à la Hotelling; 9.2 Spatial Oligopoly à la Cournot; 9.3 Concluding Remarks; 9.4 Related Literature; Part III. Breadth and Determinants of Spatial Concentration; Chapter 10. Measuring Spatial Concentration; 10.1 The Properties of an Ideal Index of Spatial Concentration; 10.2 Spatial Concentration Indices; 10.3 Indices Accounting for Industrial Concentration; 10.4 The Duranton-Overman Continuous Approach.
- 10.5 Concluding Remarks10.6 Related Literature; Chapter 11. Determinants of Spatial Concentration and Local Productivity; 11.1 The Determinants of Spatial Concentration; 11.2 The Determinants of Local Productivity; 11.3 Concluding Remarks; 11.4 Related Literature; Chapter 12. The Empirics of Economic Geography; 12.1 A General Framework; 12.2 Location of Firms; 12.3 Home-Market Effect; 12.4 Factor Prices and Economic Geography; 12.5 Migrations; 12.6 The Stability of Spatial Patterns; 12.7 Concluding Remarks; 12.8 Related Literature; Chapter 13. Theory with Numbers.
- 13.1 Predictions Based on the Dixit-Stiglitz-Krugman Model.