Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; Why Pacific Asia?; 2. New States, Old Nations and Nationalism; Introduction: The importance of history in the region; The legacy of colonialism; State-building and rebuilding; Nation-building and nationalism; Imposition of...

Nature and scope of regional and urban economics -- Linear market areas -- Market areas and systems of cities -- Industrial location -- Agglomeration economies and entrepreneur's preferences -- Spatial pricing decisions -- Short-run income models -- Supply-based regional growth analysis --...

The paper examines the relation between industrial mix and regional productivity growth. For this purpose, a dynamic model of the open economy with differentiated sectoral knowledge formation and incomplete interregional knowledge diffusion is constructed. The theoretical framework is first used...