Economic Geography: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature

Stephen Redding

Chapter 16 in Palgrave Handbook of International Trade, 2013, pp 497-531 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The uneven distribution of economic activity across space is one of the most striking features of economic life. Perhaps the clearest visual manifestation of this is the emergence and growth of cities. The share of the world’s population living in cities grew from less than one tenth in 1300, to around one sixth in 1900, and to around one half today. Even more striking is the emergence of large metropolitan areas. By 1980 there were more than two million cities with more than a hundred thousand inhabitants, and by 1995 15 cities had a population of greater than ten million.1

Keywords: American Economic Review; Market Access; Economic Geography; Home Market Effect; Cumulative Causation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-30531-1_16

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