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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Agglomeration and Economic Theory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Cities: Past and Future | |
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| Why Do We Observe Agglomerations? | |
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| On the Relationship between Space and Economics | |
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| Plan of the Book | |
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| Fundamentals of Geographical Economics | |
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| The Breakdown of the Price Mechanism in a Spatial Economy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Quadratic Assignment Problem | |
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| The Spatial Impossibility Theorem | |
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| The First Welfare Theorem in a Spatial Economy | |
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| Considerations on the Second Welfare Theorem in a Spatial Economy | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| The Thunen Model and Land Rent Formation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Location of Divisible Activities | |
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| The Urban Land Rent | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Increasing Returns and Transport Costs: The Fundamental Trade-Off of a Spatial Economy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Microfoundations of Increasing Returns at the City Level | |
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| City Size under Scale Economies | |
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| Trade in a System of Cities | |
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| Competition and the Spatial Organization of Markets | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Cities and the Public Sector | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The City as a Public Good | |
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| The Number and Size of Cities under Politics | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Structure of Metropolitan Areas | |
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| The Spatial Structure of Cities under Communications Externalities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Agglomeration as Spatial Interaction among Individuals or Firms | |
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| The City as Spatial Interdependence between Firms and Workers | |
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| The Monocentric City | |
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| The Polycentric City | |
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| Suburbanization and the Location of Multiunit Firms | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| The Formation of Urban Centers under Imperfect Competition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Monopolistic Competition and the Formation of Shopping Districts | |
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| Oligopolistic Competition and the Agglomeration of Retailers | |
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| Consumers' Search and the Clustering of Shops | |
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| The Formation of Urban Employment Centers | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Factor Mobility and Industrial Location | |
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| Industrial Agglomeration under Marshallian Externalities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Factor Mobility and Agglomeration Economies | |
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| Oligopoly, Localization Economies, and Regional Advantage | |
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| The Formation of Industrial Clusters under Localization Economies | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Industrial Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Core-Periphery Model | |
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| Sticky Labor and Regional Specialization | |
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| A Linear Model of Core-Periphery: Discriminatory Pricing and Welfare | |
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| On the Impact of Forward-Looking Behavior | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Urban Systems and Regional Growth | |
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| Back to Thunen: The Formation of Cities in a Spatial Economy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| City Formation under Preference for Variety | |
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| City Formation with Intermediate Commodities | |
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| On the Emergence and Structure of Urban Systems | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| On the Relationship between Agglomeration and Growth | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Model of Agglomeration and Growth | |
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| Agglomeration and Growth When Production is Footloose | |
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| Agglomeration and Growth in the Presence of Barriers that Prevent Innovation Transfer | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Appendix | |
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| References | |
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| Name Index | |
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| Subject Index | |