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Paul Krugma - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new economic Geography now middle aged
Regional Studies, 2011Co-Authors: Paul KrugmaAbstract:Krugman P. The New Economic Geography, now middle-aged, Regional Studies. This paper claims that the New Economic Geography has now become ‘middle-aged’. On the one hand, the New Economic Geography is said to be of less relevance when describing current developments in advanced economies because it focuses more on tangible causes of the spatial concentration of economic activities, and not so much on intangible sources, such as information spillovers. On the other hand, the paper states that recent developments in developing economies like China are quite in line with the core–periphery model that predicts increasing regional specialization as a result of economic integration. Although both economists and geographers study these spatial processes, no fruitful exchange between the two is expected because of the use of different methodologies. Krugman P. La nouvelle geographie economique atteint l'âge mur, Regional Studies. Cet article pretend que la nouvelle geographie economique atteint ‘l’âge mur'. D'un ...
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the new economic Geography past present and the future
Investigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2004Co-Authors: Masahisa Fujita, Paul KrugmaAbstract:This article presents a summary of our conversation on the past, present and future of the new economic Geography, which took place with the help of an interlocutor in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2002. Following the intro-duction, we explain what the new economic Geography is, and we describe some basic models. The discussion of its various critical aspects is presented subse-quently, and the article concludes with the discussion of future issues and challenges facing the field.
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the new economic Geography past present and the future
Economics of Governance, 2003Co-Authors: Masahisa Fujita, Paul KrugmaAbstract:This article presents a summary of our conversation on the past, present and future of the new economic Geography, which took place with the help of an interlocutor in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2002. Following the introduction, we explain what the new economic Geography is, and we describe some basic models. The discussion of its various critical aspects is presented subsequently, and the article concludes with the discussion of future issues and challenges facing the field. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg 2003
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what s new about the new economic Geography
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 1998Co-Authors: Paul KrugmaAbstract:Since 1990 a new genre of research, often described as the 'new economic Geography,' has emerged. It differs from traditional work in economic Geography mainly in adopting a modelling strategy that exploits the same technical tricks that have played such a large role in the 'new trade' and 'new growth' theories; these modelling tricks, while they preclude any claims of generality, do allow the construction of models that--unlike most traditional spatial analysis--are fully general-equilibrium and clearly derive aggregate behaviour from individual maximization. The new work is highly suggestive, particularly in indicating how historical accident can shape economic Geography, and how gradual changes in underlying parameters can produce discontinuous change in spatial structure. It also serves the important purpose of placing geographical analysis squarely in the economic mainstream. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.
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development Geography and economic theory
1995Co-Authors: Paul KrugmaAbstract:Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones. Krugman examines the course of economic Geography and development theory to shed light on the nature of economic inquiry. He traces how development theory lost its initial influence after it became clear that many of the theory's main insights could not be clearly modeled, and concludes with a commentary on areas where further inquiry looks most promising.
Richard Florida - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Geography as strategy the changing Geography of corporate headquarters in post industrial capitalism
Regional Studies, 2020Co-Authors: Patrick Adler, Richard FloridaAbstract:This paper develops a theory of large corporate headquarters’ location in post-industrial capitalism. It posits that human capital has become the primary factor in the location decisions of large c...
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the economic Geography of talent
Annals of The Association of American Geographers, 2002Co-Authors: Richard FloridaAbstract:The distribution of talent, or human capital, is an important factor in economic Geography. This article examines the economic Geography of talent, exploring the factors that attract talent and its effects on high-technology industry and regional incomes. Talent is defined as individuals with high levels of human capital, measured as the percentage of the population with a bachelor's degree and above. This article advances the hypothesis that talent is attracted by diversity, or what are referred to as low barriers to entry for human capital. To get at this, it introduces a new measure of diversity, referred to as the diversity index, measured as the proportion of gay households in a region. It also introduces a new measure of cultural and nightlife amenities, the coolness index, as well as employing conventional measures of amenities, high-technology industry, and regional income. Statistical research supported by the findings of interviews and focus groups is used to probe these issues. The findings con...
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bohemia and economic Geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2002Co-Authors: Richard FloridaAbstract:This paper examines the Geography of bohemia and the relationships between it, human capital, and high-technology industries. The underlying hypothesis is that the presence and concentration of bohemians in an area creates an environment or milieu that attracts other types of talented or high human capital individuals. The presence of such human capital in turn attracts and generates innovative, technology-based industries. To explore these factors, this paper introduces a new measure--the bohemian index --that directly measures the bohemian population at the MSA level. Statistical research examines the relationships between geographic concentrations of bohemians, human capital, and high-technology industry concentration. The findings support this hypothesis. The Geography of bohemia is highly concentrated. The results indicate positive and significant relationships between the bohemian index and concentrations of high human capital individuals and between the bohemian index and concentrations of high-technology industry. The relationship between the bohemian index and high-technology concentrations is particularly strong. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.
Frederick E Nelson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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soil moisture a central and unifying theme in physical Geography
Progress in Physical Geography, 2011Co-Authors: David R Legates, Rezaul Mahmood, Delphis F Levia, Tracy L Deliberty, Steven M Quiring, Chris Houser, Frederick E NelsonAbstract:Soil moisture is a critical component of the earth system and plays an integrative role among the various subfields of physical Geography. This paper highlights not just how soil moisture affects atmospheric, geomorphic, hydrologic, and biologic processes but that it lies at the intersection of these areas of scientific inquiry. Soil moisture impacts earth surface processes in such a way that it creates an obvious synergistic relationship among the various subfields of physical Geography. The dispersive and cohesive properties of soil moisture also make it an important variable in regional and microclimatic analyses, landscape denudation and change through weathering, runoff generation and partitioning, mass wasting, and sediment transport. Thus, this paper serves as a call to use research in soil moisture as an integrative and unifying theme in physical Geography.
Koe Frenke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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why is economic Geography not an evolutionary science towards an evolutionary economic Geography
Economy, 2017Co-Authors: Ro Oschma, Koe FrenkeAbstract:The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in economic Geography during the last couple of decades. By separating the three approaches in terms of theoretical content and research methodology, we can appreciate both the commonalities and differences between the three approaches. It is also apparent that innovative theorizing currently occurs at the interface between neoclassical and evolutionary theory (especially in modelling) and at the interface between institutional and evolutionary theory (especially in 'appreciative theorizing'). Taken together, we argue that Evolutionary Economic Geography is an emerging paradigm in economic Geography, yet does so without isolating itself from developments in other theoretical approaches.
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the emerging empirics of evolutionary economic Geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2011Co-Authors: Ro Oschma, Koe FrenkeAbstract:Following last decade’s programmatic papers on Evolutionary Economic Geography, we report on recent empirical advances and how this empirical work can be positioned vis-a-vis other strands of research in economic Geography. First, we review studies on the path dependent nature of clustering, and how the evolutionary perspective relates to that of New Economic Geography. Second, we discuss research on agglomeration externalities in Regional Science, and how Evolutionary Economic Geography contributed to this literature with the concepts of cognitive proximity and related variety. Third, we go into the role of institutions in Evolutionary Economic Geography, and we relate this to the way Institutional Economic Geography tends to view institutions. From this discussion, a number of new research challenges are derived.
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why is economic Geography not an evolutionary science towards an evolutionary economic Geography
Journal of Economic Geography, 2006Co-Authors: Ro Oschma, Koe FrenkeAbstract:The paper explains the commonalities and differences between neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary approaches that have been influential in economic Geography during the last couple of decades. For all three approaches, we argue that they are in agreement in some respects and in conflict in other respects. While explaining to what extent and in what ways the Evolutionary Economic Geography approach differs from the New Economic Geography and the Institutional Economic Geography, we can specify the value-added of economic Geography as an evolutionary science.
Henry Wai Chung Yeung - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Rethinking relational economic Geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2005Co-Authors: Henry Wai Chung YeungAbstract:Recent theoretical and empirical work in economic Geography has experienced what might be termed a 'relational turn' that focuses primarily on the ways in which sociospatial relations of economic actors are intertwined with processes of economic change at various geographical scales. This phenomenon begs the questions of whether the,relational turn' is simply an explicit reworking of what might be an undercurrent in economic Geography during the late 1970s and the 1980s, and whether this 'turn' offers substantial advancement in our theory and practice. In this paper, I aim to evaluate critically the nature and emergence of this relational economic Geography by revisiting its antecedents and conceptual frameworks. This evaluation opens up some significant conceptual issues that are further reworked in this paper. In particular, I argue that much of the work in this 'relational turn' is relational only in a thematic sense, focusing on various themes of socio-spatial relations without theorizing sufficiently the nature of relationality and its manifestation through power relations and actor-specific practice. This paper thus illuminates the nature of relationality and the multiple ways through which power works itself out in 'relational geometries', defined as the spatial configurations of heterogeneous power relations. As a preliminary attempt, I first conceptualize different forms of power in such relational geometries and their causal effects in producing concrete/ spatial outcomes. I then show how this relational view can offer an alternative understanding of a major research concern in contemporary economic Geography - regional development.
