Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 4 : Cities and Geography (Handbooks in Economics)
Автор:V. Henderson Год: 2004 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0444509674 Book DescriptionThe new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, network theory and applied econometrics into urban and regional economics. The chapterscover theoretical developments concerning the forces of agglomeration, the nature of neighborhoods and human capital externalities, the foundations of systems of cities, the development of local political institutions, regional agglomerations and regional growth. Such massive progress in understanding the theory behind urban and regional phenomenon is consistent with on-going progress in the field since the late 1960s. What is unprecedented are the developments on the empirical side:...
