| Description |
649 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
An Elgar reference collection |
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Elgar mini series |
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Elgar reference collection.
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| Contents |
1. The new economics of urban and regional growth / Edward L. Glaeser -- 2. Spatial perspectives on new theories of economic growth / Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot -- 3. Increasing returns and economic geography / Paul Krugman -- 4. First nature, second nature, and metropolitan location / Paul Krugman -- 5. Urban concentration : the role of increasing returns and transport costs / Paul Krugman -- 6. Increasing returns and long-run growth / Paul M. Romer -- 7. Endogenous technological change / Paul M. Romer -- 8. On the mechanics of economic development / Robert E. Lucas, Jr. -- 9. Geographic localization of knowledge spillovers as evidenced by patent citations / Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg and Rebecca Henderson -- 10. R&D spillovers and the geography of innovation and production / David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman -- 11. Local geographic spillovers between university research and high technology innovations / Luc Anselin, Attila Varga and Zoltan Acs -- 12. The talk of the town : human capital, information, and the growth of English cities, 1861 to 1961 / Curtis J. Simon and Clark Nardinelli -- 13. Economic growth in a cross-section of cities / Edward L. Glaeser, Jose A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer -- 14. Productivity gains from geographic concentration of human capital : evidence from the cities / James E. Rauch -- 15. Productivity and the density of economic activity / Antonio Ciccone and Robert E. Hall -- 16. Growth in cities / Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, Jose A. Scheinkman and Andrei Shleifer -- 17. Industrial development in cities / Vernon Henderson, Ari Kuncoro and Matt Turner -- 18. Innovation in cities : science-based diversity, specialization and localized competition / Maryann P. Feldman and David B. Audretsch -- 19. Low returns in R&D due to the lack of entrepreneurial skills / Claudio Michelacci -- 20. The impact of geographic differences in human capital on service firm formation rates / Zoltan J. Acs and Catherine Armington -- 21. Creativity and entrepreneurship : a regional analysis of new firm formation / Sam Youl Lee, Richard Florida and Zoltan J. Acs -- 22. "Old economy" inputs for "new economy" outcomes : cluster formation in the new Silicon Valleys / Timothy Bresnahan, Alfonso Gambardella and AnnaLee Saxenian -- 23. Biotechnology clusters as regional, sectoral innovation systems / Philip Cooke -- 24. When do industries cluster? : a proposal on how to assess an industry's propensity to concentrate at a single region or nation / Claus Steinle and Holger Schiele -- 25. Economic welfare and the allocation of resources for invention / Kenneth J. Arrow -- 26. Clusters and the new economics of competition / Michael E. Porter -- 27. Entrepreneurial enterprises, large established firms and other components of the free-market growth machine / William J. Baumol |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Urban economics.
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High technology industries -- Location.
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Cities and towns -- Growth.
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City planning.
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Community development, Urban.
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| Author |
Ács, Zoltán J.
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| LC no. |
2006048544 |
| ISBN |
9781843766407 |
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184376640X |
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