Spatial economics / Edited by Masahisa Fujita - Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005. - viii, 368 p. ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. - International library of critical writings in economics, 188 .

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Contents: Introduction -- Part 1: New economic geography:> Increasing returns and economic geography -- Equilibrium locations of vertically linked industries -- Globalization and the inequality of nations -- The spread of industry--The size of regions -- The rise and fall of regional inequalities -- Agglomeration and trade revisited -- History versus expectations -- Agglomeration and endogenous capital -- Part 2: Urban systems: The sizes and types of cities -- When is the economy monocentric? -- A modeling of megalopolis formation -- On the evolution of hierarchical urban systems -- Trade policy and the third wold metropolis -- Externalities, indivisibility, nonreplicability, and agglomeration --

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Space in economics.
Regional economics
Economic geography

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