文章对克鲁格曼的经济地理学思想从贸易理论与区位理论相融合,从规模收益递增、要素流动和运输成本揭示空间集聚,从历史、预期和路径依赖揭示区域发展路径,以量化模拟研究区际关系等四方面进行了分析。从研究视角、研究范式和研究方法三方面分析了克鲁格曼创新研究对经济地理学的启迪。从学科社会地位、研究范式和发展方向三方面分析了克鲁格曼获得诺贝尔经济学奖对经济地理学的影响。在此基础上,对中国经济地理学发展提出了一些思考。
This paper firstly analyses Krugman' s economic geography ideas from the four perspectives of integrating trade theory with location theory, explaining spatial agglomeration by the increasing returns to scale, transportation costs and factor mobility, explaining regional development path from the perspectives of history, expectation and path dependence, and quantitatively analyzing the interregional relationship. Secondly, this paper discusses Krugman's edification to economic geography from the views of research perspective, paradigm and methodology, and then, examing the impact of Krugman's winning of the Nobel Prize in economics on economic geography from the three aspects of social status, study perspective and development direction of the discipline. At last, it put forwards some thinking of the development of economic geography in China.