Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization

ISBN-13: 9780521171960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 544 str.

Masahisa Fujita & Jacques Francois Thisse

Opis

A study of the economic reasons for the existence of a variety of agglomerations arising from the global to the local, now in its second edition.

Recenzje

'Fujita and Thisse provide an exhaustive and rigorous account of what microeconomic theory has to say about the basic economic forces that give rise to cities. This new edition, substantially updated and with an increased emphasis on issues in the intersection of spatial economics and international trade, will be the standard reference in the field for years to come.' Robert Helsley, University of British Columbia

Spis treści

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 Thünen 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 Thünen: the formation of cities in a spatial economy; 11. Globalization, growth, and the geography of the supply chain.