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.

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