1、3700 英文单词， 2 万英文字符 ，中文 6400 字 文献出处： Behrens K, Thisse J F. Regional economics: A new economic geography perspectiveJ. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37(4): 457-465. Regional economics: A new economic geography perspective Kristian Behrens , Jacques-Franois Thisse Abstract We show that t
2、he concepts and tools developed in new economic geography may be used to revisit several problems in regional economics. In particular, we want to stress the following two points: (i) what do we mean by a region and (ii) what kind of interactions between regions do we want to study and how to model
3、them? We conclude by discussing a few open problems that should be explored in more detail for regional economics to become a richer body of knowledge. Keywords: Regions; Regional economics; New economic geography 1. Introduction This journal has been launched in 1972 under the title Regional and Ur
4、ban Economics, which is almost the name of the JEL-classification entry R. The first point we wish to make is that, by the time this journal was launched, urban economics was already a well-established field drawing on new concepts and tools. By contrast, the scientific status of regional economics
5、was less c lear in that regional concepts, models and techniques were too often a mere extension of those used at the national level, with an additional index identifying the different regions (see, e.g., interregional inputoutput matrices or the HarrodDomar model of regional growth).1 The Samuelson
6、ian emphasis put on trade theory also acted as an impediment to the further development of regional economics, the trade of goods being viewed as a substitute to the mobility of factors. Today, thanks to the surge of new economic geography (in short, NEG), it is time to re-think regional economics. This is what we wish to do in this note. It is worth stressing from the outset that, in order to talk even halfway sensibly about regional economics, it is necessary to tackle the following two
