The Return of Zipf: Towards a Further Understanding of the Rank‐Size Distribution
通过在经济地理和国际贸易模型中引入拥堵等负反馈机制，使集聚与分散力量达到长期均衡，从而加深对城市等级规模分布存在的理解。
We offer a general‐equilibrium economic approach to Zipf's Law or, more generally, the rank‐size distribution—the striking empirical regularity concerning the size distribution of cities. We provide some further understanding of Zipf's Law by incorporating negative feedbacks (congestion) in a popular model of economic geography and international trade. This model allows the powers of agglomeration and spreading to be in long‐run equilibrium, which enhances our understanding of the existence of a rank‐size distribution of cities.