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Agglomeration and networks in spatial economics
Author(s) -
Johansson Börje,
Quigley John M.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1007/s10110-003-0181-z
Subject(s) - urban agglomeration , economies of agglomeration , economic geography , productivity , space (punctuation) , economics , point (geometry) , microeconomics , industrial organization , economic growth , computer science , geometry , mathematics , operating system
. We consider the parallel developments in the economics of agglomeration and the economics of networks. We explore the complementarities between the productivity benefits of agglomeration and those of network linkages, arguing that networks of actors dispersed over space may substitute for agglomerations of actors at a single point.