This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history
of one central idea in economics, namely the division of labour, over the past two and a half …

This paper provides an updated survey of the rapidly growing literature on inframarginal
analysis of division of labor, tracing the development of this literature since its emergence in …

This paper tests the scale effect predicted by the Fujita–Krugman [Fujita, M., Krugman, P.,
1995. When is the economy monocentric? von Thűnen and Chamberlin unified. Regional …

The paper introduces differences in production and transaction conditions between
countries into a model of monopolistic competition. It applies inframarginal analysis to show …

This paper investigates Allyn Young's two important doctrines concerning the division of
labor and roundabout production. First, apart from advancing the state of knowledge, the …

In the rapidly growing literature on endogenous specialization, of which the modern
pioneering studies are Rosen (1978), Becker (1981) and Yang (1988) among others, a …

After outlining what appears to be the central principle unifying the literature of the division of
labour that has been expanding during the last two decades, I highlight a set of selected …

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it will provide an updated review of an emerging
and rapidly growing literature of the inframarginal analysis of network of division of labour …

This book presents a history of the division of labour in economics from the early literature of
the Greek philosophers and the Chinese, via the Islamic, medieval, mercantilist and …

Following the empirical work of Jones (1995a, b) that test the scale effects predicted by the
AK models and the R&D based models, this paper tests the scale effects of a major new …