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The spatial economy : cities, regions and international trade
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The spatial economy : cities, regions and international trade

Author: 藤田, 昌久, (1943- ) ; Masahisa Fujita; Paul R Krugman; Anthony Venables
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: 藤田, 昌久, (1943- ) ; Masahisa Fujita; Paul R Krugman; Anthony Venables
ISBN: 0262062046 9780262062046
OCLC Number: 40619367
Description: xiii, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Rediscovery of Geography --
Linkages and Circular Causation --
Modeling Tricks: Dixit-Stiglitz, Icebergs, Evolution, and the Computer --
Two Useful Questions --
Plan of the Book --
Some Intellectual Background --
Antecedents I: Urban Economics --
The von Thunen Model --
Explaining Cities: External Economies --
Urban Systems --
Multiple Subcenters --
Uses and Limits of Traditional Urban Economics --
Antecedents II: Regional Science --
Central-Place Theory --
Base-Multiplier Analysis --
Market Potential Analysis --
Limitations of Regional Science --
A Brief Introduction to Bifurcations --
Labor Mobility and Regional Development --
The Dixit-Stiglitz Model of Monopolistic Competition and Its Spatial Implications --
Consumer Behavior --
Multiple Locations and Transport Costs --
Producer Behavior --
Some Normalizations --
The Price Index Effect and the Home Market Effect --
The "No-Black-Hole" Condition --
Core and Periphery --
Assumptions --
Instantaneous Equilibrium --
The Core-Periphery Model: Statement and Numerical Examples --
When Is a Core-Periphery Pattern Sustainable? --
When is the Symmetric Equilibrium Broken? --
Implications and Conclusions --
Symmetry Breaking --
Many Regions and Continuous Space --
The Three-Region Case --
The Racetrack Economy --
The Turing Approach --
The Growth Rate of a Fluctuation --
Determining the Preferred Frequency: The Large Economy --
From Local to Global --
Simulation Parameters --
Agricultural Transport Costs --
Trade Costs: The Realities --
Trade Costs: The Model.
Responsibility: Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman, Anthony J. Venables.

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