How does economic geography influence industrial production and thereby affect industrial location decisions and the spatial distribution of development? For manufacturing industry, what are the externalities that matter, and to what extent? Are these externalities spatially localized? The...

This research paper briefly summarises the origin and evolution of the New Economic Geography and compares it with other theories of industrial location. The New Economic Geography stresses the role of ‘second nature geography'. In second nature theories, cumulative causation mechanisms...

How does economic geography influence industrial production and thereby affect industrial location decisions and the spatial distribution of development? For manufacturing industry, what are the externalities that matter, and to what extent? Are these externalities spatially localized? Lall,...

Contents: Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. Supply chain economy -- 4. Market structure and location of production -- 5. Globalisation -- 6. International firms -- 7. Regional policy -- 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.