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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankEconomicsofAgglomerationThisbookprovidesthefirstunifyingtreatmentoftherangeofeconomicreasonsfortheclusteringoffirmsandhouseholds.Itsgoalistoexplainfurtherthetrade-offbetweenvariousformsofincreasingreturnsanddifferenttypesofm
2、obilitycosts.Itshouldbenotedthattheconceptofeconomicagglomerationreferstoverydistinctreal-worldsituations.Themainfocusofthetreatmentisoncities,butEconomicsofAgglomerationalsoexplorestheformationofcommercialdistrictswithincities,industrialclustersatther
3、egionallevel,andtheexistenceofimbalancebetweenregions.Thebookisrootedwithintherealmofmoderneconomicsandborrowsconceptsandideasfromgeographyandregionalscience,whichmakesitaccessibletoabroadaudiencecomprisingeconomists,geographers,regionalplanners,andoth
4、erscientists.EconomicsofAgglomerationmaybeusedincourseworkforgraduatestudentsandtalentedupper-levelundergraduates.MasahisaFujitahasbeenamajorcontributortospatialeconomictheoryduringhis20-yeartenureattheUniversityofPennsylvaniaandmorerecentlyatKyotoUniv
5、ersitysince1995,wherehehasservedasDirectoroftheInstituteofEco-nomicResearch.Hisscholarshiprangesoverthefieldsrelatedtoregionalscience,locationtheory,economicgeography,urbaneconomics,andinternationaltrade.ProfessorFujitaistheauthororcoauthorofthreebooks:
6、SpatialDevelopmentPlanning(1978),UrbanEconomicTheory(CambridgeUniversityPress,1989),whichremainstothisdaythemostauthoritativegraduatetextbookonurbaneco-nomics,andTheSpatialEconomy(1999,coauthoredwithPaulKrugmanandA.J.Venables),whichdefinesthefieldofNewEc
7、onomicGeography.ProfessorFujitaistherecipientofthe1983TordPalanderPrize,the1998WalterIsardAwardinregionalsciences,andthe2000NikkeiEconomicBookPrize.In1993hewashonoredwiththelifetimeVisitingProfessorshipintheCollegeofEconomicsatNankaiUniversity,China.He
8、servesontheboardof10internationaljournalsonregionalscience,economics,andeconomicgeographyandsince1999hasbeenthePresidentoftheAppliedResearchScienceConferenceinJapan.Jacques-Fran¸coisThisseisProfessorofEconomicsattheUniversit´ecatholique
