Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- ONE: The Ideology of Nature -- TWO: The Production of Nature -- THREE: The Production of Space -- FOUR: Toward a Theory of Uneven Development I: The Dialectic of Geographical...

In this paper, we use the new economic geography (NEG) framework to estimate the extent to which spatial wage disparities in the South African manufacturing sector are an outcome of economic forces such as market access. To test the relationship, we use the anonymized tax data on employers and...

This paper proposes a simple method measuring spatial robustness of estimated coefficients and considers the role of administrative districts and regions' size. The procedure, dubbed "Grid and Shake", offers a solution for a practical empirical issue, when one compares a variables of interest...

We study the dynamics of inter-regional economic disparities for a number of development characteristics, test the hypothesis of the new economic geography and connect the results with the prediction of the bell curve describing spatial concentration over time. The results of our analysis...