Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth - Softcover

Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-Francois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521805244 ISBN 13: 9780521805247

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

This book provides the first unifying analysis of the range of economic reasons for the clustering of firms and households. Its goal is to explain further the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs. The main focus of the analysis is on cities, but it also explores the formation of other agglomerations, such as commercial districts within cities, industrial clusters at the regional level, and the existence of imbalance between regions.

About this title

About the Author:

Masahisa Fujita, a member of the Japan Academy and the President of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, has been a major contributor to spatial economic theory during his twenty-year tenure at the University of Pennsylvania and more recently at Kyoto University and Konan University. Professor Fujita is the author or co-author of three books: Spatial Development Planning (1978); Urban Economic Theory (Cambridge, 1989), which remains to this day the most authoritative graduate textbook on urban economics; and The Spatial Economy (1999, co-authored with Paul Krugman and A. J. Venables), which defines the field of new economic geography.

Review:

"The primary value of the book resides in its development of microeconomic spatial models ... a rich and provocative source of ideas, hypotheses, rationales, and models to contemplate and upon which to build."
Annals of the Association of American Geographers

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521805244
• ISBN 13: 9780521805247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480