Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization

by Jacques-François Thisse and Masahisa Fujita

Book Overview

Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural features, economic mechanisms that rely on the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs are more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521171962
• ISBN13: 9780521171960
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"