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A Theory of Interregional Dynamics

Models of Capital, Knowledge and Economic Structures

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Wei-Bin Zhang

    1. 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 523)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 1-9

  3. Regional Growth with Productivity and Amenity Differentials

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 11-31

  4. Regional Growth with Endogenous Time Distribution

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 33-46

  5. Regional Sexual Division of Labor and Economic Growth

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 47-60

  6. A Two-group Regional Growth Model

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 61-77

  7. Urban and Rural Equilibrium Structures

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 79-95

  8. Regional Economic Equilibrium with Two Groups

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 97-113

  9. Regional Growth with Economic Structure

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 115-136

  10. A Two-region Growth Model with Capital and Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 137-154

  11. Regional Economic Structure with Endogenous Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 155-172

  12. Regional Growth with Universities

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 173-192

  13. Regional Dynamics in an Isolated State

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 193-215

  14. Further Issues on Interregional Economics

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 217-219

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 221-235
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Over more than two centuries the development of economic theory has created a wide array of different theories, concepts and results. Nevertheless, there is no general theory, which mrifies these varied theories into a comprehensive one. Economics has been split between partial and conflicting representations of the functioning of market economies. We have a collection of separate theories such as the Marxian economics, the Keynesian economics, the general equilibrium theory, and the neoclassical growth theory. These diverse economic theories have co-existed but not in a structured relationship with each other. Economic students are trained to understand economic phenomena by severally incompatible theories one by one in the same course. Since the end of Second Wodd War many crises in economic theory have been announced. The economist experienced the crisis of the general equilibrium economics, the crisis of the neoclassical growth economics, the crisis of the Keynesian economics, not to mention the crises of the Marxian economics. It is quite reasonable to expect the loss of confidence in theoretical economics even among professional economists after so many crises in a very short period of time. But a crisis offers new opportmrities for change, either for better or for worse. The past crises in theoretical economics may be perceived as a historical opportmrity to construct a general economic theory by which the traditional theories are integrated into a higher whole.

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  • Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita-ken, Japan

    Wei-Bin Zhang

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