Critical survey. The new 'geographical turn' in economics: some critical reflections
批判了近年来经济学中出现的‘地理转向’，认为所谓的新经济地理学既不新也不是真正的地理，而是用主流数学工具重写了传统区位理论和区域科学，与真正的经济地理学研究难以调和。
Over the past few years, a new 'geographical' economics has emerged, focused on the spatial agglomeration of industry and the long-run convergence of regional incomes. Several leading names are associated with this 'geographical turn', including Paul Krugman, Michael Porter, Robert Barro and W. Brian Arthur. This 'new economic geography', it is argued here, is neither that new, nor is it geography. Instead, it is a reworking (or re-invention) - using recent developments in formal (mathematical) mainstream economics - of traditional location theory and regional science. As such it is quite opposed to, and difficult to reconcile with, the work on regional development and industrial agglomeration being carried out in economic geography proper.