Economic Geography - The Integration of Regions and Nations
A textbook for Advanced-undergraduate / Master / PhD students
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Thierry Mayer, Jacques-François Thisse
Princeton University Press (2008)
French earlier version, Economica (2006)
Economic Geography - The Integration of Regions and Nations
● Foreword.
Part I - Facts and Theories
● Chapter 1. Spatial Inequalities: A Brief Historical Overview.
● Chapter 2. Space and Economic Thought.
Part II - Space, Trade and Agglomeration
● Chapter 3. Monopolistic Competition.
● Chapter 4. Interregional Trade and Market Size.
● Chapter 5. Gravity and Trade Costs.
● Chapter 6. The Core-Periphery Structure.
● Chapter 7. Intermediate Goods and the Evolution of Regional Disparities.
● Chapter 8. The Bell-Shaped Curve of Spatial Development.
● Chapter 9. Spatial Competition.
Part III - Breadth and Determinants of Spatial Concentration
● Chapter 10. Measuring Spatial Concentration.
● Chapter 11. Determinants of Spatial Concentration and Local Productivity.
● Chapter 12. The Empirics of Economic Geography.
● Chapter 13. Theory with Numbers.
● Chapter 14. Concluding Remarks.
See also my Economic Geography course page here.