Economic geography: the integration of regions and nations * Pierre-Philippe Combes, Thierry Mayer and Jacques-Francois Thisse
本书融合经济理论与实证，解释为何经济活动集中在少数区域，适合经济地理、区域与城市经济学、国际贸易和应用计量经济学领域的学生和研究者阅读。
The aim of this book is ‘to familiarize the reader with economic theories and their empirical validations, which seek to explain why, even in societies where the circulation of people, goods and ideas is becoming increasingly easy, economic activities are concentrated in a relatively limited number of areas’ (Foreword, p. xiii). In so doing, it carefully blends economic theory and empirics exploiting the complementary composition of its authorship. According to the back cover, the targeted readership includes students and researchers in economic geography, regional and urban economics, international trade and applied econometrics. That said, many economic geographers may end up being disappointed if lured into reading the book by its title. The reason is that this is more a book on ‘geographical economics’ than a book on ‘economic geography’ proper. In this respect, its appearance nicely coincides with the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Paul Krugman for his path-breaking applications of the tools of international trade theory to some of the key issues in economic geography.