Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography
评述Fujita、Krugman和Venables的《空间经济》，指出新经济地理学的核心贡献是用主流经济学的标准工具（理性决策和简单一般均衡模型）来模拟分散与集聚之间的权衡，从而为“集聚倾向”提供了选择理论基础。
Reviewing The Spatial Economy by Fujita, Krugman, and Venables, this paper argues that the key contribution of the new economic geography is a framework in which standard building blocks of mainstream economics (especially rational decision making and simple general equilibrium models) are used to model the trade-off between dispersal and agglomeration. The approach thus gives a choice-theoretic basis for a “propensity to agglomerate.”