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An Economic Theory of Cities

Spatial Models with Capital, Knowledge, and Structures

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Wei-Bin Zhang

    1. Jumonjibaru, Beppu-Shi, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita-ken, Japan

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 512)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 1-20

  3. Urban Growth with Housing and Spatial Structure

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 21-41

  4. Spatial Pattern Formation with Capital and Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 42-60

  5. Urban Structure with Growth and Sexual Division of Labor

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 61-75

  6. Dynamic Urban Pattern Formation with Heterogeneous Population

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 76-99

  7. Two-Group Spatial Structures with Capital and Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 100-117

  8. Urban Growth and Pattern Formation with Preference Change

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 118-134

  9. Urban-Rural Division of Labor with Spatial Amenities

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 135-149

  10. Spatial Equilibrium with Multiple Cities

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 150-165

  11. Growth with International Trade and Urban Pattern Formation

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 166-184

  12. Nonlinear Dynamics of a Multi-City System

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 185-200

  13. Further Issues on Cities

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 201-203

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 204-224
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About this book

Over more than two centuries the developmentofeconomic theory has created a wide array of different concepts, theories, and insights. My recent books, Capital and Knowledge (Zhang, 1999) and A TheoryofInternational Trade (Zhang, 2000) show how separate economic theories such as the Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium theory, the neoclassical growth theory, and the neoclassical trade theory can be examined within a single theoretical framework. This book isto further expand the frameworkproposed in the previous studies. This book is a part of my economic theory with endogenous population, capital, knowledge, preferences, sexual division of labor and consumption, institutions, economic structures and exchange values over time and space (Zhang, 1996a). As an extension of the Capital and Knowledge, which is focused on the dynamics of national economies, this book is to construct a theory of urban economies. We are concerned with dynamic relations between division of labor, division ofconsumption and determination of prices structure over space. We examine dynamic interdependence between capital accumulation, knowledge creation and utilization, economicgrowth, price structuresand urban pattern formation under free competition. The theory is constructed on the basisofa few concepts within a compact framework. The comparative advantage of our theory is that in providing rich insights into complex of spatial economies it uses only a few concepts and simplified functional forms and accepts a few assumptions about behavior of consumers, producers, and institutionalstructures.

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  • Jumonjibaru, Beppu-Shi, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita-ken, Japan

    Wei-Bin Zhang

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