The conversation between economic geographers and political economists has not made
much progress. The former focus on exchange, markets and efficiency, as can be seen in …

Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for
social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed …

In this essay, I engage the LA-Chicago debate by repositioning both area-specific
constraints and visual orders as intermediary variables. This leads the discussion to two …

The paradox in urban economics over the last thirty years is that agglomeration economies
(and diseconomies) are the driving force behind explanations of geographical concentration …

This special issue contains papers by both economists and geographers on agglomeration
and growth. In this introduction, we first provide a brief sketch of recent developments in the …

Why do cities exist? Geographers Allen Scott and Michael Storper recently put the question
before the field of urban studies and provided a clear and concise answer in terms of …

1. Introduction to national prosperity and the threat todeveloped'nations posed by cheap
labour in developing countries. He has also addressed questions around the clustering and …

The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world's economic
geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With …

Agglomeration economies are a fundamental explanation for the existence of cities. Spatial
clustering allows for a variety of external benefits such as labor pooling, sharing of suppliers …

The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews,
synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their …